Politics

Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has extended his goodwill message to the erstwhile Senate President, Dr. Anyim Pius Anyim on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Atiku in a statement released by his media officer, Paul Ibe, referred...

South Korean candidate contesting for the World Trade Organization, WTO, Yoo Myung-hee, has dropped out of the race. South Korea's exit effectively opens the door for Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to become WTO first African leader. In a statement, Yoo, the South...

President Muhammadu Buhari has sought the Senate’s confirmation of Commissioners of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, reads a letter forwarded by Buhari on Tuesday containing the names at plenary. Those to be confirmed are Prof. Muhammad Sani...

Ondo State Governor and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Rotimi Akeredolu and his wife have arrived at Ward 05, Polling Unit 06, Ijebu 2, Owo. Akeredolu is optimistic about his victory, at arrival, he assured that the election...

Barely a week after he tendered his resignation, the former commissioner for Home Affairs in Lagos State, Dr. AbdulHakeem AbdulLateef, has returned to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Recall that Honourable Abdullateef in his Independence Day message had resigned over his...

President Muhammau Buhari, on Friday, received the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress,APC  in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu at the State House, Abuja. Ize-Iyamu was accompanied by Chairman, APC Caretaker Committee and Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni,...

The Police have taken over Edo State House of Assembly complex in Benin City, the state capital. A detachment of Police personnel took over the complex on Thursday morning. Eyewitness account says the police took the action following a reported threat...

Acting Managing Director of the NDDC, Kemebradikumo Pondei fainted and regained consciousness during the probe session of the House of Representatives Panel. Recall that last week Thursday,Pondei walked out of the panel citing the alleged involvement of the Chairman of...

A few months after the presidential inauguration in 2015, the Buhari administration launched a Jihad against corruption and applied itself to pseudo-reformist proselytising. The government caterwauled over how the Jonathan administration magicked the public treasury into exclusive pockets. The biggest...

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has formally joined the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The governor made this known on Friday afternoon when he led some of his appointees and supporters to the PDP secretariat in Benin-City. The leadership of the PDP had...