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 […]

  The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nysome Wike, has said that no one can take over his political structure and that he can fight back against anyone fighting him unjustly. Wike stated this on Wednesday while welcoming governors elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in his office.   […]

  The confusion in Rivers State is heightening by the minutes as a faction of the Rivers State House of Assembly has announced Edison Ehie, the suspended majority Leader of the assembly, as the new speaker of the house. Ehie, a member representing Ahoada East constituency in the Rivers State House of Assembly, was earlier […]

  An elder statesman and leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, has said Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, is behind the plot to impeach Rivers State Governor, Sam Fubara. According to him, Wike’s intention is to force Fubara’s deputy to resign after a successful impeachment and […]