Politics

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday assured Nigerians of a better future despite the present challenges occasioned by the removal of the petrol subsidy. The president gave the assurance at the public presentation of “Brutally Frank,” an autobiography of the convener of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, in Abuja. Tinubu, who was represented at the event by the …

Afe Babalola, the founder of Afe Babalola University in Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), says that the only successful industry in Nigeria today is politics. The legal luminary spoke at the 11th convocation ceremony of Afe Babalola University on Saturday and bemoaned the way politics is increasingly taking precedence over education. The founder of ABUAD described a first-class graduate who declined further study …

The Federal Government will begin the documentation of new ministers on Saturday. The Permanent Secretary, General Services, Office of the Secretary to the Federation, Nnamdi Mbaeri, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. He said the exercise would end on Sunday. President Bola Tinubu assigned portfolios to the 45 ministers on Wednesday. The statement read: “Ministers-designate are to …

The appointment of a Minister of State for Petroleum Resources from the oil-rich Niger Delta region, according to Yabagi Sani, national chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), is sending the “wrong signal.” Sani, a guest on Thursday’s Sunrise Daily breakfast programme on Channels Television, claimed that confining the appointment to a specific state will instill a sense of entitlement …

The Senate has dismissed reports of a purported plot by some lawmakers to impeach the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Publicity, Yemi Adaramodu, made the clarification in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. Akpabio had earlier rejected reports of a plot by the senators to change the leadership of the Red Chamber. …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, said on Saturday nothing should stop the Supreme Court from accepting his fresh evidence against President Bola Tinubu in the ongoing dispute over the outcome of the February 25 election. The PDP candidate on October 7 filed an application to present fresh evidence against the president at the apex court. This …

Following the nomination of Kebbi State lawmaker Yusuf Sununu to the position of minister, Tajudeen Abbas, speaker of the House of Representatives, has changed the chairpersons of various committees. Sununu was appointed as the nation’s state minister of education on Wednesday by President Bola Tinubu. The members of the green chamber’s 134 standing committees were named by Abbas on July …

The Labour Party governorship candidate in Bayelsa State, Udengs Eradiri, on Wednesday the the election petition tribunal to disqualify Governor Douye Diri, and his All Progressives Congress (APC) rival, Timipre Sylva, from the November 11 governorship election in the state. Eradiri, who addressed the party stakeholders at ward and local government levels in Yenagoa, rejected the results of the election. …

A former Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, North-West, Salihu Lukman, on Wednesday, expressed concern over the rising challenges by Nigerians since the current administration assumed office on May 29. Lukman, who spoke at a media briefing in Abuja ahead of the public presentation of his new book, warned the APC leaders that Nigerians may be forced to kick …

The firearm charges levelled against the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has been struck out by a Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday This ruling by Justice Nicholas Oweibo was due to lack of diligent prosecution, following the withdrawal application made by the Director of Public Prosecution of the Ministry of Justice, Mohammed Abubakar. …