FORMER president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has mooted fielding the current head of the African Development bank (AfDB) Dr Akinwumi Adesina as presidential candidate in the 2023 Nigerian elections.
Dr Adesina, 61, who served as Nigeria's agriculture minister between 2011 and 2015, was elected as the AfDB president in 2015 and...
EMBATTLED communications minister Sheikh Isa Pantami has defied critics calling on him to resign after he was listed on the Federal Bureau of Intelligence's (FBI) terrorist watchlist and turned up at today's Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja.
Sheikh Pantami, who is also the deputy secretary-general of the Supreme...
MEMBERS of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF) have distanced themselves from claims made by Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State that the federal government printed between N50bn and N60bn in March to enable it fund the budget.
Early this month, Governor Obaseki reported that Nigeria was in huge financial trouble,...
NIGERIA'S man opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded the dismissal of communications minister Sheikh Isa Pantami over statements he made in the past in support of extremist Islamic groups.
Over recent weeks, Sheikh Pantami has come under fire after it emerged that he was on the Federal Bureau of...
ALL Progressive Congress (APC) national leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu's 69th birthday plans have been disrupted by bad weather after the elements prevented several high profile dignitaries including vice president Professor Yemi Osinbajo from attending the event.
Today, Asiwaju Tinubu held his 12th colloquium to mark his 69th...
SEVERAL prominent politicians of Igbo extraction have threatened to ditch Nigeria's main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) it do not zone the presidency to the southeast geo-political zone come 2023.
Although not constitutional, Nigeria's component parts have a gentleman's agreement that the presidency will...
FLAMBOUYANT lawmaker Senator Ademola Adeleke is set for a return to frontline politics again next year after the Osun State chapter of his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) unanimously agreed to field him as their gubernatorial candidate in 2022.
In 2017, Senator Adeleke was a elected to the senate to represent Osun West...
FORMER Plateau State governor Senator Joshua Dariye is to spend the next 10 years in prison after the Supreme Court affirmed his conviction for corruption in a case brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Senator Dariye caused an international stir in 2004 when he was arrested in London on...
FORMER Imo State governor Senator Rochas Okorocha has boasted that he will succeed President Muhammadu Buhari after the 2023 presidential elections saying he is confident of emerging victorious this time around.
Between 2011 and 2019, Senator Okorocha governed Imo State and in May 2019, he got elected as the lawmaker...
GOVERNOR Rotimi Akeredolu was sworn-in today for a second term as the Ondo State governor and used his inauguration speech to call for the establishment of state police forces as the only way to combat the growing insecurity in the country.
Elected for a final four year term, Governor Akeredolu and his deputy, Lucky...
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