Politics

The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the N346.388 billion Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) budget for the year 2019. The budget is for development projects for the service of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) for the Financial year ending on 31 May, 2020. In the budget N1. 29 …

Adams Oshiomhole, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been suspended by an FCT High Court in Jabi, Abuja. Justice Danlami Senchi, on Wednesday, ordered Oshiomhole to step down pending the determination of the substantive suit seeking his perpetual removal as the APC chairman. The judge said that political …

Ex-Ondo State Deputy Governor Lasisi Oluboyo and some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party defected to the All Progressives Congress on Saturday. Oluboyo, who was ex-governor Olusegun Mimiko’s deputy, dumped the Zenith Labour Party to join the ruling party alongside a former chairman of the PDP in the state, Col …

The simmering war of attrition rocking the Kwara State All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken another twist, with two factions pointing fingers at each other. A faction led by the deputy chairman of the party in the state, Alhaji Abdullahi Samari, has accused the state APC chairman, Bashir Bolarinwa, of …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday told Nigerians not to panic over the outbreak of Coronavirus in Nigeria. Buhari made the appeal while expressing sadness over the confirmation of a case of Covid-19 infection in Lagos State. In a statement signed by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, the president commended the Federal Ministry of …

The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has insisted that the North has no justification to remain in power after the expiration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s second tenure. El-Rufai maintained that the Presidency should rightly return to the Southern part of Nigeria. He said though the constitution of the All …

President Muhammadu Buhari, Friday, in Abuja said the issue of partial closure of Nigeria’s land border to goods from neighbouring countries will be determined by report of tripartite committee made up of Nigeria, Benin and Niger Republic. President Buhari, who received President Roch Marc Christian Kabore of Burkina Faso at …

The United Progressive Party (UPP), on Friday, said it had merged with the All Progressives Congress (APC). Consequently, it said that it would not take the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court over its deregistration.  The UPP was recently deregistered by INEC alongside 73 other political parties. Dr Chekwas …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has extended deadline for the sale of forms for various party congresses by one week. PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, said that the deadline had been extended from Feb. 22 to Feb. 29. “By this, the party extends …

Despite the whopping N128 billion approved for the National Assembly in the 2020 budget, the House of Representatives has said paucity of funds hampers it from carrying  out its assignments. Its spokesman, Hon. Ben Kalu, while addressing journalists at the weekend in Abuja, called on the federal government to make …