POLITICS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huZb4CYka4s The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Rabiu Kwankwaso has faulted the new naira swap deadline, claiming it only affects the masses and not the political elites who he said have banks.  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had on Sunday extended the deadline for the …

A former Minister of State for Defence, Mr Musiliu Obanikoro, on Tuesday told the Fed. High Court sitting in Lagos how the sum of N1.2 billion was allegedly passed on to the former Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose for his re-election. Obanikoro spoke as the 12th prosecution witness in the …

These are not the best of times for the Presid ential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The other day, the director, Civil Society Liaison, in the APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Hajia Naja’atu Muhammad, resigned from the PCC and the APC. She has been spilling the …

People Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar has said that he is in touch with the presidential candidate of New Nigerian People Party (NNPP) Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso for possible support. In an interview with BBC Hausa service, Atiku said he is also holding talks with the Labour Party (LP) …

President Vladimir Putin threatened to personally target Boris Johnson with a missile attack just before ordering Russian forces into Ukraine, the former UK prime minister has claimed. The apparent threat came in a phone call just ahead of the invasion on February 24, according to a new BBC documentary to …

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, says he “rescued” Atiku Abubakar from former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Abubakar, former vice-president and now standard-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had a running battle with his former principal for years. Both men reconciled in the build-up …

A Federal High Court in Abuja has on Monday dismissed the suit by a former presidential candidate of Hope Democratic Party, Chief Ambrose Owuru, against the election of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), in the 2019 presidential election. The suit seeking Buhari’s was dismissed by Justice Inyang Ekwo on three …

In the aftermath of judgement by the Osun State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has provided clarifications on the discrepancy related to the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS). The tribunal ruling on Friday nullified the election of Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Ademola Adeleke amid over-voting and …

When in August 2022, I announced to the whole world that in Osun, my Principal, Adegboyega Oyetola, did not lose the July 16 Governorship election, but only lost the vote count, some Nigerians, especially sympathisers of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were furious. They called me names. But they could …

Atiku makes U-turn, follows Tinubu’s stand on new naira noteThe presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, yesterday made a U-turn by adopting the position of the All Progressives Congress (APC)flag bearer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in calling for the extension of the Tuesday deadline for the …