Politics

The Supreme Court has fixed Thursday as date to deliver judgment on the appeal filed against the election victory of President Bola Tinubu. READ ALSO:Supreme Court dismisses Smart Adeyemi’s appeal on Kogi APC governorship primary The presidential candidates of the Labour Party and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar respectively will on that day know their …

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has told Governor Ademola Adeleke to enjoy his four-year tenure as he will be booted out of office in 2026. The National Secretary of the party, Senator Ajibola Basiru, who gave Adeleke the charge in Osogbo on Saturday at a reception organised for him by the Osogbo Federal Constituency, declared …

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, on Tuesday faulted President Bola Tinubu’s order on the reinstatement of 27 lawmakers in the Rivers State House of Assembly. The lawmakers who are loyalists of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesome Wike, on December 11 dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC). The PDP …

The Governor of Zamfara state, Dauda Lawal, has been advised to focus on governance, rather than dissipating energy in discrediting his predecessor and minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawwalle. The advice was given by a renowned analyst, Deyemi Saka. Hhe said the task before the governor was to gain the confidence and cooperation of Zamfara people, “because his victory at the …

The Governorship Campaign Council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State has advised former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, to drop out of the race for the November 11 governorship election in the state. Director-General of the campaign council, Mitema Obordor, who gave the advice during the party’s rally in Sagbama local government area on …

Two-time governor of Bayelsa State and former Minister of State for Petroleum Reaources, Timipre Sylva was conspicuously missing from the amended list of candidates released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the November 11 governorship election in the state. Going by the amended list uploaded on the commission’s website on Tuesday, Sylva and his ruining mate, Joshua Maciver …

The acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Umar Damagum, said on Tuesday the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, other rebels in the party would be sanctioned by the party’s leadership at the appropriate time. Damagum, who spoke at a press conference in Abuja, stressed that the former Rivers State governor and others in …

The Presidency says President Bola Tinubu was ready to wield the big stick and take a tough action to resolve the political crisis that had rocked Rivers State in the past few weeks if the impasse had not been resolved and an agreement reached at a meeting held on Monday between the President, Governor Siminalayi Fubara, Minister of the FCT, …

Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana intervened in the dispute between Ireti Kingibe, a senator who represents the Federal Capital Territory, and Nyesom Wike, the minister in charge of that territory. In a statement released on Monday, Falana underlined that the FCT minister’s performance of duties was not subject to Kingibe or the National Assembly’s oversight. The FCT legislator had …

President Bola Tinubu has promised that his administration would continue to uphold the freedom of the Nigerian media. The President who made the pledge in Abuja on Monday when members of Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), paid him a courtesy visit at the Presidential Villa, assured that he would respect divergent opinions, whether they were complementary of his government …