The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has filed its notice of appeal before the Supreme Court to challenge the November 17 judgement of the Court of Appeal which upheld the decision of the Election Petition Tribunal, sacking Governor Abba Yusuf and declared Dr…

The Chief Registrar of the Court of Appeal, Umar Bangari, has cleared air on the controversies surrounding the judgement delivered by the court on the Kano Governorship Election dispute. In a reaction, Bangari said that what happened in the judgement body was a…

The 36 states of the federation have spent N1.71tn on recurrent expenditures including allowances, foreign trips, office stationery, aircraft maintenance, and more in the first nine months of 2023. This is according to an analysis of their budget performance reports sourced from Open…

A former National Vice Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman, has cautioned President Bola Tinubu and other chieftains against a culture of manipulating political contests through imposition, saying unless there is a rethink, “almost all APC candidates for 2027…

There was uproar in the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly on Tuesday, following the announcement of Senator Osita Ngwu representing Enugu West as the new Senate Minority Whip. Ngwu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was named as the minority leader by…

The Presidency yesterday rejected the allegation by the Peoples Democratic Party  (PDP) and its former presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, that President Bola Tinubu was muzzling the opposition and foisting a one-party state on Nigeria. It accused PDP and Atiku of raising a false…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says Western Liberal Democracy has not been a system of government in Africa because it was “forced” on the continent by the colonialists. He made the assertion in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, while delivering a keynote address at…

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has dismissed an appeal brought before it by the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Titus Uba challenging the election of Hyacinth Alia as the elected governor of Benue State. In a unanimous judgment, the…

The Ondo State Executive Council, yesterday, passed a vote of confidence on Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu with a vow to continue to support him in his commitment to bringing development to the state. The move by the cabinet members came amid the ongoing political…

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has asked the Federal Government (FG) to disclose the assets and deficits the President Bola Tinubu government inherited from the past administration of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari. In a series…