Politics

Edo state seputy governor, Philip Shaibu, has expressed his sense of betrayal by his principal, Godwin Obaseki, for not backing his candidature in ...

The Osun State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has filed a suit against a former governor of the state, Rauf Aregbesola, ...

Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has directed caretaker chairmen across the 18 Local Government Areas and the newly created 33 Local Council Development ...

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has said that the decisions taken by his administration in the political crisis in the state were not ...

The Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended the state chairman, Fatai Adams, over alleged anti-party activities. The party’s ...

Ahead of the February 3, 2024 by-elections, the Labour Party (LP) has released a timetable and schedule of activities for the contestants into ...

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the March 18, 2023 governorship election in Ogun State, Ladi Adebutu, on Wednesday, reported ...

The Acting Governor of Ondo State, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has been sworn in as the governor of the Sunshine State. The swearing-in was held ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has released its timetable and schedule of activities for the February 3, 2024 by-elections. The APC timetable released ...

Ahead of the February 3, 2024 by-elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has released a timetable and schedule of activities for the contestants ...

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, says he is committed to implementing the eight-point presidential peace agreement on the political crisis in the state.  ...

The 27 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly on Wednesday commenced sitting in Port Harcourt, the state capital. The lawmakers led ...

The political crisis in Rivers State may have ceased as parties reached a truce on Monday night. This followed about three hours of ...

The number of resignations in the Rivers State Executive Council has risen to nine after two more commissioners handed in their resignations following ...

The political tsunami sweeping Rivers State appears unabating as three more commissioners on Thursday resigned from Governor Sim Fubara’s cabinet.  The latest to ...

Prof Zacchaeus Adangor has resigned as the Attorney-General (AG) and Commissioner for Justice in Rivers State. Adangor’s resignation, dated November 14, 2023, was ...

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, on Monday, sworn in nine Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) at the Commission’s ...

Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, will commence his medical leave on Wednesday, as a follow-up to his medical treatment, his spokesman, Richard Olatunde, ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct new elections in the 27 state constituencies ...

The Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced Wahab Hammed, a ward Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the Surulere ...

Candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress won all 38 chairmanship and 177 councillorship seats in Saturday’s council elections in Ekiti. The Ekiti ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday condemned the rendition of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s campaign tune at the hallowed chamber of the ...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has nullified the election of the Speaker of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Yusuf Liman, ...

The Kogi State Government, through the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, has queried the paramount ruler and Ohimeghe-Igu of Koton-Karfe, Alh. ...

The Court of Appeal, Abuja has reversed the sack of the Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule by the State Election Petitions Tribunal in ...

The Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly Moses Sule has resigned.  Sule stated that his resignation was borne out of sacrifice, ...

The Senate has revealed a plan to make the uploading of election results online by the  Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) mandatory. The announcement ...

The New Nigeria People’s Party, (NNPP), on Tuesday, described as a welcome development, a proposal mulled by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar that ...

President Bola Tinubu has been dragged to court over the appointment of Resident Electoral Commissioners for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Taraba State has won all the chairmanship positions at the just-concluded local government (LG) council election held ...

Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State has described as a temporary setback, the verdict of an Appeal Court which sacked him as governor ...

The Appeal Court in Abuja has sacked the Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang. In her ruling on Sunday, the lead Justice, Elfrieda Williams-Dawodu, ...

President Bola Tinubu, on Saturday, congratulated Joseph Boakai on his victory in the Liberian presidential election, urging him to unite the country and ...

The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), under whose umbrella Governor Abba Yusuf swept to victory in the March 18 governorship exercise, has rejected ...

Liberian leader and football legend George Weah conceded defeat to opposition leader Joseph Boakai after a tight presidential run-off, saying it was “time ...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has affirmed the tribunal judgment which declared the All Progressive Congress candidate, Nasiru Gawuna winner of the governorship ...

Six months after the Zamfara governorship election, the leadership of the North-Western state is now in question as the Appeal Court nullified the ...

The Labour Party has described the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar’s merger proposal as a good proposal that ...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar believes the merger of Nigeria’s opposition parties will help in forming a stronger front against the ruling All ...

More than 48 hours after the Bayelsa governorship election, Governor Douye Diri has clinched a second term in office as the leader of ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Sunday, said some of its officials on election duty were held hostage in the Brass Local ...

The Social Democratic Party (SDP)’s governorship candidate in Kogi State Muritala Ajaka has faulted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the conduct ...

The Governorship candidate of the Labour Party in the just concluded Imo state Governorship election Athan Achonu has accused security operatives of colluding ...

Dino Melaye has called for the cancellation of the Kogi State governorship election, describing the conduct of the exercise as “shameful”.  The Peoples ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Sunday night, adjourned the collation of results in the November 11, 2023, Bayelsa State Governorship Election ...

Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State has thanked supporters following his re-election.  Uzodimma became the Imo governor in 2020 after the Supreme Court ...

The keenly-contested November 11, 2023 Kogi State Governorship Election has finally produced a winner with the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Usman Ododo, ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says fresh polls will be conducted in 59 polling units in the Ogori/Magongo Local Government Area of ...

The CDD Election Analysis Centre (CDD-EAC) has observed several reports about voter inducement across all three states. According to CDD EAC, observers reported ...

The convener of the National Peace Committee, Bishop Matthew Kukah, has criticised Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State over the violence in the ...

Governor Hope Uzodimma says the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, is pursuing the agenda of the Labour Party in ...

The former presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic party, PDP and Ex-Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has appealed to people of kogi ...

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidate for the Kogi State governorship election Leke Abejide says he expects President Bola Tinubu to give a ...

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has nullified the participation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and its senatorial candidate in the February ...

The Kwara State Government has charged the State Independent Electoral Commission (KWSIEC) to adhere strictly to the rules of conducting free, fair, credible ...

The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has explained why prominent politicians, including Prof Rufai Ahmed Alkali, Prof Bem Angwe, Senator Othman Hunkuyi and ...

The Kwara State government yesterday restated its readiness to conduct the local government elections in the state. This clarification followed an allegation by ...

Timipre Sylva has hailed the Court of Appeal judgment that reinstated him as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in ...

The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has weighed in on the crisis rocking Rivers State amid the plot to impeach ...

The Presidency has berated the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar, in reply to his ...