Human rights lawyer and activist, Dele Farotimi, has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the continued stay in office by Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, asserting that it was illegal and that the latter should have retired by now. Farotimi, who spoke during an interview on News Central TV on Saturday, monitored […]

Ahead of the 2027 general election, the North-Central All Progressives Congress, APC, Forum has declared that the North-Central zone will not go into any coalition with the North-East and the North-West. There are speculations that ex-vice president Atiku Abubakar, former governors of Kaduna and Rivers states, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai and Rotimi Amaechi, and Labour Party, […]

Bisi Akande, a former interim chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has disclosed that he advised President Bola Tinubu to run for presidency in 2023. Akande disclosed that after Tinubu emerged president, he returned to his village in Ila, Osun State. In an interview with Edmund Obilo, Akande revealed that Tinubu had expressed concerns […]

A fight broke out on Wednesday at the headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, where a meeting of the party’s Board of Trustees, BoT, is ongoing. The altercation began when Sunday Ude-Okoye, a party chieftain, was ejected from the meeting. Samuel Anyanwu and Ude-Okoye are fighting over for the position of National Secretary of […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has charged its staff to embrace a systematic approach to planning, implementing, and evaluating its activities. The Osun INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr Mutiu Agboke gave this charge during the technical workshop on the review of the 2022-2026 strategic plan and the development of the 2027-2031 strategic plan implementation […]

Former Kano State governor and leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has called on the Federal Government to refrain from interfering in matters exclusively under the jurisdiction of the Kano State Government. Kwankwaso’s remarks followed a recent terror alert issued by the Kano State Police Command, which he described […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum has assured the Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara of its support over the control of the party’s structure in the state. Chairman of PDP Governors’ Forum who is also governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, gave the assurance at the weekend when he received Fubara who visited the […]

The national chairman of All Progressived Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, has said Katsina State remains an APC state, dismissing a mistake by the State Governor Dikko Umaru Radda who had declared that the state is a stronghold of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The incident occurred during the handover of party flags to the […]

Former Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi has said there are more “Yahoo people” in President Bola Tinubu’s government than those outside. Obi lamented that those people have turned Nigeria into an entire crime scene. He spoke while delivering his keynote address as guest speaker at the fourth graduation ceremony of Nexford University. Obi […]