Protesters on Monday stormed the headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abuja demanding the resignation of the party’s National Working Committee. The group, under the aegis of the PDP National Back Up arrived at Wadata Plaza, the national secretariat of the party demanding the immediate resignation of the acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum-led […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared that western liberal democracy will never work as a system of government in Africa, which according to him it was shoved down the throat of the continent. Obasanjo added that the western style of democracy failed in Africa because it does not take into account the view of […]
Edo State Deputy Governor, Mr Philip Shaibu has said that the need to implement practical governance to address the developmental challenges of the state informed his decision to vie for the governorship election slated for 2024. Shaibu stated this on Saturday at a media parley with the Edo State Journalists Forum in Abuja. According […]
The Kano State governor, Abba Yusuf, has rejected the appeal court judgment affirming the verdict of the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sacking him, vowing to challenge the decision at the Supreme Court. The governor, who spoke in a broadcast, described the appeal court judgment as a miscarriage of justice. However, he urged the people […]
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State, Ilyasu Musa Kwankwaso, has called on the embattled governor of the state, Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf, to honourably accept defeat and accede to the verdict of the Appeal Court in Abuja, which affirmed Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna as the rightful winner of the March […]
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has sacked Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State. The panel upheld the verdict of the tribunal led by Justice Oluyemi Akintan Osadebay which sacked Yusuf on September 20, 2023. Recall the lower tribunal had declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nasir Gawuna, as […]
The Imo State police spokesperson, Henry Okoye has disclosed that fifteen Commissioners of Police, 29 Deputy Commissioners of Police and 40 Assistant Commissioners of Police have been deployed to oversee the November 11, 2023 governorship election in Imo State. Okoye said a Deputy Inspector General of Police would be in charge of the election […]
The court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has unanimously affirmed the election of CUPP spokesperson and member representing Ideato North and South Federal Constituency,, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere as the validly elected member of the House of Representatives. This judicial triumph has brought to an end the political battle of almost two years which has […]
The Peoples Democratic Party in Akwa Ibom State has dragged President Bola Tinubu to court for allegedly appointing a member of his party, the All Progressives Congress as Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission. The suit was filed by the Chairman and Secretary of the state PDP, Aniekan Akpan and Harrison […]
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu did not ask for a presidential yacht, Tope Ajayi, his spokesman, has said. There has been outrage since details of the N2.1 trillion supplementary budget Tinubu submitted to the National Assembly were published. According to the budget, N5.09 billion was allocated for the yacht, N2.9 billion for sport utility vehicles […]
