MEMBERS of the Coalition of Northern Elders for Peace and Development (NEPD) have asked Nigeria's two leading political parties the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to both zone the 2023 presidential ticket to the southeast.
Although not constitutional, Nigeria's component parts have a...
MEMBERS of the Ebonyi State National Assembly Caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have distanced themselves from the recent actions of Governor Dave Umahi who recently dumped the party and defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Currently the chairman of the South East Governors’ Forum, Governor...
PAN-Igbo socio-political organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council (OYC) has warned that as many as three governors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the southeast geo-political zone will defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) soon.
According to OYC, they are likely to do this because the PDP is nor...
NIGERIA's presidency has welcomed the planned defection of the Ebonyi State governor Dave Umahi to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in what is seen as the first step in his bid to run for president in 2023.
Currently the chairman of the South East Governors’ Forum, Governor Umahi, 57, was first elected in 2015 on...
CIVIL society group the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (Huriwa) has urged the US and UK to impose visa bans on political stakeholders involved in any form electoral malpractice during the Saturday’s impending governorship elections in Ondo State.
This weekend, Ondo State goes to the polls to elect a governor...
MEMBERS of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Campaign Council for Ondo State governorship elections have challenged Governor Rotimi Akeredolu to account for the sum of over $10m received from foreign donors as cOVID-19 palliatives.
On October 10, Ondo State will go to the polls to elect a new governor in what is...
CIVIL society organisation Save Democracy Coalition (SDC) has called on the US and European Union (EU) authorities to extend their visa travel ban on Nigerian politicians who participate in electoral fraud to unscrupulous judges who commit judicial tape too.
Last month, the US government imposed visa restrictions on...
ADAMAWA North Senatorial District's lawmaker Senator Elisha Abbo has been fined N50m ($131,174) by an Abuja high court for assaulting a female member of staff at a sex toy shop in May last year.
On May 11 2019, Senator Abba elected last year on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), slapped a nursing mother...
GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike has attributed the free and fair conduct of the recent gubernatorial elections in Edo State to the threat by the UK and US to impose visa bans on anyone who rigged the polls.
In the run-up to the polls, the British high commission in Nigeria, threatened sanctions against any officials involved in...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has dumfounded Nigerian political watchers by planning to spend $1.95bn on an inexplicable railway line linking Kano with the city of Maradi in neighbouring Niger Republic.
Yesterday, a Federal Executive Council presided over by President Buhari approved a contract to build the line linking...
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