Politics

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged Nigerians to change, and install responsible and transformative leadership at every level of government if they want good governance and a better country to become a reality. The former president lamented that for years, quality leadership had eluded the country at all levels. He spoke on Saturday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital at …

Former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi has sounded the alarm over growing insecurity and economic woes in Nigeria, urging collective action to address the growing crisis. In a statement issued on Saturday via his X account, Obi highlighted recent kidnappings, including those of medical students in Benue and a state commissioner and his wife in Edo, and stressed the …

Former head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, said on Friday that the National Peace Committee (NPC) was being urged to persuade the National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the 2023 presidential election. Abubakar, who is the NPC Chairman, stated this when delivering the election organizing committee’s report. The former military rule said the committee was under immense pressure from certain …

Some All Progressives Congress (APC) members from Oredo local government area of ​​Edo State switched to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday. The defectors who came from District 1 of Oredo LGA were led by Sidney Egede, an APC chieftain in the area. They were received into the PDP by the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Oluwole …

The Bauchi State chapter of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has dragged the Bauchi State Independent Electoral Commission (BASIEC) to court over what it described as certain irregularities in the procedures adopted in the Bauchi State Local Government Area elections held on Saturday, August 17, 2024. In the Initial Summons filed by their team of lawyers, led by Hyginus Ibega …

Asue Ighodalo, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the upcoming Edo State governorship election, has given Senator Adams Oshiomhole a seven-day ultimatum to retract his alleged defamatory remarks on national television. In a letter dated August 12, 2024, Ighodalo’s lawyers, Ayo Asala (SAN) & Associates, demanded that Oshiomhole issue a personal apology and a retraction of the statement, as …

The Court of Appeal, Abuja, on Friday quashed an order barring former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, and two others from attending the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meetings. Other party leaders affected are the sacked Rivers State Governor, Celestine Omehia and former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Austin Opara. Justice Inyang Ekwo …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has warned that the response of the party’s national working committee (NWC) is a direct invitation to anarchy in the state. The warning came after the NWC ordered Chief Tony Okocha to commence the Congress process from ward level to state level in October, despite a court ruling dismissing Okocha’s interim committee …

The Senate has finally responded to claims made by Senator Kawu Sumaila (NNPP, Kano South) that each serving senator receives N21 million monthly. Chairman Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Yemi Adaramodu (APC Ekiti South), on Thursday, clarified that the National Assembly receives only 1% of the federal budget. Adaramodu, in a press release, explained that the funds …

The Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, on Thursday condemned the seizure of three Nigerian presidential jets in France, calling it a stark example of “failed leadership” and lack of transparency in the country. The jets were seized by a French court over a contract dispute between Ogun State and Chinese firm Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial …