Politics

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, abruptly called an end to a stakeholders’ meeting in Yenagoa on Wednesday as an argument between political leaders threatened to boil over into physical violence. INEC had organised the meeting as part of its preparations for the governorship election ...

• Says its attacks, a confirmation of unholy alliance of Apex court, APC The opposition Political Parties under the umbrella of “Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP)” on Tuesday expressed dismay over a statement credited to the Supreme Court in which the apex court descended heavily on the coalition for ...

Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo state, is contemplating dumping the ruling party. In a statement issued on his behalf by Simon Ebegbulem, his spokesman, the national chairman said the governor wants to create crisis in the party before making ...

Crisis is allegedly brewing in the Senate over the employment slots allocated to  the lawmakers  by some federal agencies. Some aggrieved senators have vowed to resist the sharing method  allegedly adopted by the leadership of the Senate to allocate  the slots. Investigations by our correspondent revealed that  the agencies  gave ...

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has a plan to spend N4.5 billion to repair State House buildings in 2020. The Federal Government intends to spend a total of N58,446,014,724 in the presidency during the year, according to details of the Appropriation Bill he presented to the National Assembly on Tuesday. A perusal ...

The campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State, on Saturday, said the array of personalities in the campaign council and the swell of support across the state can only mean it is only Governor Yahaya Bello that can defeat himself in the November 16 Governorship election. ...

The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State is in a fix on how to handle a petition against its governorship candidate, Senator Douye Diri, over his failure to declare his assets before the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) while he served as Deputy Chief of Staff ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the extension of service of his Chief Personal Security Officer, Abdulkarim Dauda, by three years. Dauda, who was promoted  to the rank of  Commissioner of Police last year, is Buhari’s nephew. By the presidential approval, the CPSO, who was due to retire from service on ...

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has said that his daughter, who was appointed as Special Assistant to the Governor on Girl Child, deserved the appointment. He said this on Tuesday in Asaba, while addressing the issue of appointments into his cabinet for his second term in office. Okowa said that ...

Jigawa state governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar, has appointed a special assistant to each of his three wives. Of the 51 Special Assistants that were appointed by the governor, there is also a special assistant for street light as well as for population control. According to a copy of the lists ...