Edo Polls: I will win by 75percent- Obaseki

As the September 28 date scheduled for the Edo Governorship election approaches, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Godwin Obaseki, on Thursday, said that he would emerge victor…

You can't protest- Rivers and Anambra Police warn IPOB

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and other pro-Biafran agitators, have been warned by the Rivers and Anambra states Police Commands, against carrying out their planned protest scheduled for…

Dariye defects from PDP to APC

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, at the Thursday plenary session of the Senate, read a letter announcing the defection of the Senator representing Plateau Central, Joshua Dariye, from the opposit…

Sheriff and Makarfi camp meet to resolve PDP crisis

The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may finally be coming to an end as factional leaders of the party, Senators Ali Modu Sheriff and Ahmed Makarfi, met in Abuja on Tuesday and d…

Dogara desperately begged us to forgive him, says Jibrin

Following allegation that some members of the House of Representatives are plotting to impeach the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, over alleged padding of the 2016 budget, the embattled former Appropriation …

Stop blaming Jonathan, Saraki tells Buhari

Deeply disturbed by the current level of decay in the nation's economy, the Senate yesterday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to stop playing politics with the economy and deliver Nigerians out of th…

Edo Polls: Idia Ize-Iyamu's convoy allegedly attacked by APC thugs

The convoy of the wife of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, Governorship candidate in Edo State, Dr. Idia Ize-Iyamu, was on Tuesday allegedly attacked in Iyamho, Estako West Local Government Ar…

BREAKING: Supreme Court affirms election of Governor Yahaya Bello

  The Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed the election of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State.The seven-man panel headed by Justice Sylvester Ngwata affirmed the election after listening to the cl…

Edo guber: Oshiomhole warns Okowa, Wike against exporting thugs to Benin

   Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole yesterday warned his counterparts, Ifeanyi Okowa Delta State and Nyesom Wike of Rivers State that any attempts from them to disrupt or unduly interfe…

APGA can reduce price of a bag of Rice to N9,000- Obiano

The Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, has said that if voted into power, an All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, National Government, would reduce the cost of a bag of Rice to N9,000. …

PDP is confident of victory, if poll is free and fair - Makarfi

 The Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caretaker committee, Sen Ahmed Makarfi, yesterday said that the party will be victorious in the forthcoming Edo State governorship election.He als…

Edo Governorship Polls: INEC to meet with security agencies

As the September 28 date for the Edo State Governorship election approaches, the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is planning to have a meeting with the leadersh…

Maitama Sule wants looters banned from public office, politics

Erstwhile Minister of National Guidance in the Second Republic, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule, as called on the National Assembly to make laws that would ban public officers convicted of looting public f…

Jibrin is a psychiatric case and a nuisance- Doguwa

While responding to enquiries over the weekend, the Majority Whip of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa,  dismissed the former Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation…

Corrupt persons should be banned from holding public office- Maitama Sule

A former Minister of National Guidance and  Nigeria's former Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama-Sule, has called for a ban on public officers convicted of l…

Buhari is Nigeria's major problem- Fayose

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has described President Muhammadu Buhari as the major problem of Nigeria, that Nigerians must solve. In a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday by his…

Restructuring: Afenifere chides Tambuwal for his 'parochial' statement

The Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has been chided by Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, for rejecting the call for Nigeria's restructuring. Governor Tambuwal h…

Ondo Governorship: Sheriff and Makarfi camps submit different names to INEC

Two different names have been submitted by the two warring factions of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)- the Ahmed Makarfi camp and the Ali Modu Sheriff camp- as their candidates for the Ondo S…

Ekiti earmarks N1.9bn for new Governor's office, High Court

N1.9 billion has been set aside by the Ekiti State Government, for the construction of a new Governors' office and High Court complex in Ado-Ekiti. This was disclosed at an open bidding for the …

Kaduna is sinking into a quagmire of neglect under El-Rufai - Elders

Elders in Kaduna under the aegis of the Kaduna Development Elders Initiative, have advised Governor Nasir el-Rufa'i to change his style of administration.The elders also opined that the measures and …