nigeria politics

The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday listed cases of alleged looting by officials of the Federal Government. The party was reacting to the list of “PDP looters” released in Lagos on Friday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. Mohammed had...

The Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack all the service chiefs. The council hinged their reason on the service chiefs’ alleged inability to effectively curtail killings in different parts of the country. According to them, the recurrent...

Nigeria’s Senate President Bukola Saraki and the ruling All Progressives Congress Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, were conspicuously absent at the 10th Bola Tinubu Colloquium held Thursday in Lagos. Also absent at the event put in place to mark the 66th birthday of the APC national leader was...

The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has criticized former president Olusegun Obasanjo for attacking President Muhammadu Buhari over his decision not to assent to the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, for which a signing session was recently held in Kigali. Nigeria...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday mocked President Muhammadu Buhari, following the controversy surrounding the Martin Luther King award he received few days ago in Abuja. Few days after Buhari received the award, the King Centre denied giving him the award. Read more via Daily...

Abia Government will cease to depend on Federal allocation from 2022 when the return on government’s current investment in oil palm will be sufficient enough to finance the state. The State Commissioner for Information, Mr John Okiyi, made the assertion on Wednesday at an interaction with the...

You will be shocked to find out the 19 people President Muhammadu Buhari has been following on Twitter since he took over the reigns of power as Nigeria's 6th elected President. After joining the social media platform in 2014 during his campaign for office, Buhari had not been the most vibrant...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says looted funds were used for the campaign of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015. The PDP said this in response to Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, who asked the opposition party to complete its apology to Nigerians by returning all the...

Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, has threatened to sue the Inspector-General of police, Ibrahim kpotun Idris for criminal trump-up allegation, undue harassment and intimidation over the allegation of conspiracy and illegal possession of fire arms preferred against him. He declared...

A civil society group, Concerned Nigerians, has criticised the decision of the family of the late American civil rights activist, Mr. Martin Luther King Jr., to confer President Muhammadu Buhari with the Black History Award for Exceptional Leadership in Africa. The group made its position known...

An Holland-based Nigerian political aspirant, Monica who seems to be campaigning for next year presidential election says she is going to bring back terrorism to Nigeria in an online video she shared

The Senate yesterday formally put into motion the process of overriding President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto of the Electoral Act Amendment bill 2018, by re-introducing the bill at plenary. The bill was passed through first reading without any incidence as bills are not debated at this stage. This...

Shehu Sani, senator representing Kaduna central has reacted to the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari against tenure extension for the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman and other elected national and state officials of the party. Buhari on Monday told members of the National...

A chieftain of the APC in Nasarawa State, Aliyu Bala Ahmed Tafida and about 20, 000 people have defected to the PDP in the state. Tafida announced his defection at the weekend in the presence of the Chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT) of the PDP, Senator Walid Jibrin; the Zonal Chairman...

Bola Tinubu, a leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says President Muhammadu Buhari has saved the ruling party from “serious legal turmoil”. Describing the extension of the tenure of the national working committee (NWC) of the party led by John Oyegun as illegal, Tinubu commended...

The future of the Chief John Odigie-Oyegun-led National Working Committee, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was set in uncertainty yesterday after President Muhammadu Buhari raised constitutional queries on the tenure extension plot for the party’s executives. Read more via Vanguard...

The Supreme Council for Shari’ah has reportedly demanded that the federal government prosecute Nigeria’s former Chief of Army Staff (CAS) and ex-minister, Theophilus Danjuma, for what it called treasonable felony. The Cable reports that made the demand in reaction to Danjuma’s statement at the...

The governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari on his pronouncement on tenure elongation for national officials of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Okorocha said the president has scored “another beautiful goal” for Nigeria’s democracy. Read more...

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari’s position rejecting the tenure extension party’s national working committee (NWC) led by its chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun has not changed anything within the party as the extension still stands, The Daily...

The whistle-blower at the heart of the Facebook data scandal engineered by embattled data analysis firm, Cambridge Analytica, Christopher Wylie, has named the Israeli firm that hacked into President Muhammadu Buhari’s private medical and financial records via his emails, in a bid to scare voters...