POLITICS

The Kano Police Command has detained a member-elect representing Dala Federal Constituency of Kano State on the platform of New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Aliyu Madaki. Madaki honoured a police invitation on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, after his viral picture brandishing a pump action gun during a homecoming rally of the …

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party has declared that he actually won the 2023 presidential election. According to him, he was robbed of his mandate which he can only retrieve in a court of law. Obi said this during his first media briefing since after Saturday’s presidential and National …

Fresh from their recent victory, President-elect Bola Tinubu and Vice President-elect Kashim Shettima visited President Muhammadu Buhari in his hometown of Daura, Katsina State on Wednesday. Photos shared by Buhari on Twitter show Tinubu and Shettima in a celebratory mood, presenting their certificates of return, hours after receiving the documents …

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has rejected the results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission after last Saturday’s presidential election. The body said the results released were marred with “monumental irregularities” and failure of the commission to follow its guidelines in conducting the election.The National Vice President of the organisation, …

  The United States on Wednesday congratulated Nigeria on the election of ruling party presidential candidate Bola Tinubu, while calling for calm amid accusations of voter fraud and concerns over technical glitches. Tinubu was declared the winner Tuesday of the February 25 polls in Africa’s most populous democracy. “The United States …

Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo state, says Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, has set up a committee to meet with presidential candidates of other parties for reconciliation. He said the committee comprises elders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Akeredolu spoke on Wednesday in Abuja during the presentation of the …

ON Tuesday, June 11, 2019, the 9th Senate came into being and the Senator representing Yobe North, Dr Ahmad Lawan, All Progressives Congress, APC, was elected the President of the Senate, with Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, APC, Delta Central becoming his deputy. From the outcome of the February 25, 2023, Presidential …

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party for the 2023 election in Nigeria, Peter Obi, has spoken for the first time since the Independent National Electoral Commission declared the flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as the winner. The former two-term Governor of Anambra State …

Nigeria’s Former Military president, General (rtd.) Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) has congratulated the President-elect, Bola Tinubu over his election as the 16th President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In a statement issued by his media office, IBB commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for midwifing an election, which …

It is not the best of times for five aggrieved governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) known as the G5 as three of the ‘Integrity Group’ failed in their quests to cross over to the Senate after their two-term tenure of eight years each. The G5 is made up …