Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has kick-started negotiations with seven political parties to explore the possibilities of forming alliance ahead of the 2019 general elections. Chairman of ...

Fresh corruption saga rocks the House of Representatives following allegations by Abdulmumin Jibrin, erstwhile chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation that principal officers of the green cha ...

      The leadership crisis rocking the People’s Democratic Party assumes a new dimension following the emergence of Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, former governor of Borno State, as its national chairman ...

National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu has assured that the influx of defectors from thePeople’s Democratic Party (PDP) into APC won’t pose any danger to the ruling ...

Deputy national officials of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded that the party's Acting National President, Uche Secondus, the National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh and acting Board ...

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has inaugurated a six-man judicial commission of inquiry to investigate the violence in the December 5 and 6 governorship election in the state. Dickson said ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has declared the Bayelsa State Governorship election inconclusive following the cancellation of the rescheduled poll in Southern Ijaw LGA by the c ...

An Enugu Appeal Court has nullified the election that produced Senstor Uche Ekwunife from Anambra Central Senatorial Zone and ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a ...

The governor-elect of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has promised to hit the ground running as soon as he is sworn-in as governor of the state on January 27, saying his administration will reorganize ...

The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has said it is “a waste of time, scarce national resources and ridiculous shadow-chasing”, the action of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in dec ...

The stage is set for Saturday’s governorship election in Bayelsa State. As the candidates jostling for the race intensify their last minute campaigns, a Port Harcourt-based seer has predicted that the ...

The chances of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the BayelsaState governorship election, Mr Timipre Sylva has brightened as the governorship candidates of six political parties in the r ...

Controversy trailing the November 21 Kogi Governorship election has taken a new twist as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday demands that its candidate INEC to declare its candidate and inc ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has promised to apply available legal provisions on the recent development over Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State. Deputy Director of ...

Nigeria’s former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, has restated that he had quit partisan politics and would have nothing to do with the Rebranding Conference of the People’s Democratic P ...

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has assured Nigerians of the preparedness of the federal lawmakers of the eight Legislative Assembly to discharge their responsibilities with diligence and patriotism. ...

The frosty relationship between the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara and Majority Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila over composition of the House Committees has deepened as the Lagos ...

Tanzanian officials are counting votes for a second day Tuesday as the nation awaits the outcome of the presidential, general and local elections. The country's electoral commission has called for cal ...

Candidates contesting the November 21, 2015 governorship election in Kogi State have signed a peace accord as part of efforts to ensure a peaceful conduct of the poll. The peace agreement  brokered by ...

Former Bayelsa Governor, Timipre Sylva, has won the  All Progressives Congress (APC) Bayelsa Governorship primaries, albeit under controversial circumstances. Sylva, who governed Bayelsa between 2007 ...

The ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC) and its archrival, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) engaged each other in a fiery media war-of-words over the weekend following the controversial t ...

Human Rights lawyer and Senator representing Kaduna South, Shehu Sani has urged the Code of Conducts Bureau (CCB) to publish all declarations made by public office holders since 1999. The civil rights ...

  Cote d’Ivoire constitutional court on Wednesday cleared 10 candidates out 33 aspirants to contest next month’s presidential election including incumbent candidate, Alassane Ouattara. Other cand ...

National leader of All Progressives Congress, (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has quashed rumour of political rift between him and the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar over the party’s Board of Trustee ...

  State Governors elected under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) have raised alarm over heightened political persecution, claiming that Nigeria was sliding into dictatorship u ...

Former Bayelsa governor, Chief Timiprieye Silva, has joined the race forthcoming gubernatorial election in the state, barely four years he was denied the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket in a mes ...

The political differences between the former first lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan and Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, have settled. Mrs. Jonathan reportedly disclosed that her decision to settl ...

A National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Governor of old Abia State, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has warned those using his name to score cheap political points to cease from such ac ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Lagos State chapter has berated a former National Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, for asking President Muhammadu Buhari t ...

The Rivers State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja, has turned down request to dismiss the petition brought by the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its governorship candidat ...

The leadership crisis bedeviling the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) appears to have snowballed as Anambra State PDP chapter has reportedly suspended the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Ol ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) national leadership will not interfere in the cabinet selection process of President Muhammadu Buhari, the ruling party's national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegu ...

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) government led by President Muhammadu Buhari of falsely taking credits for achievements of the Goodluck Jonat ...

The Rivers State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Wednesday dismissed four out of the five petitions filed by other parties challenging the electoral victory of Nyesom Wike ...

Joe Igbokwe, publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Lagos State, has advised Igbo politicians to remain in the People’s Democratic Party to build a formidable opposition rather than def ...

Rivers Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, holding session in Abuja on Wednesday struck out a motion filed by Governor Nyesom Wike of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) challenging the eligibili ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected a prayer by five senators opposed to the emergence of Bukola Saraki as the Senate President to stop the upper legislative chamber from constituting its stand ...

Femi Gbajabiamila, member representing Surulere Federal Constituency of Lagos State in the House of Representatives has finally been appointed the majority leader of the  lower chamber of the National ...

The leadership crisis rocking Nigeria’s House of Representatives appears to have reached its denouement following the acceptance of Speaker Yakubu Dogara’s principal officers’ sharing formula by some ...

Front line Human Rights Lawyer and Senator representing Kaduna-Central senatorial district, Shehu Sani has cautioned the All Progressive Congress (APC) lawmakers against pushing forward plans to remov ...

House of Representatives lawmakers loyal to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have rejected the controversial proposal by Speaker Yakubu Dogara to zone principal offices in the 'Green Chamber ...

Ex-Senate President, David Mark has denied the allegations that budgets and salaries of Senators and members of the House of Representatives in the 6th and 7th assemblies were kept secret. “The Nation ...

Former governor of Gombe State and current Senator representing Gombe South Senatorial District, Danjuma Goje has been expelled by the Gombe State chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) over al ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mrs Amina Bala Zakari as Acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) following the exit of Professor Attahiru Jega, who completed h ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="TheEconomy9ja" size="large" count="true" ] The National Peace Committee (NPC), a non-political advocacy body has declared the controversial election of Senators ...

It was indeed a game of intrigues,  high wire conspiracy and power play at the two chambers of the National Assembly on Tuesday, June 9 when against all odds, Senator Bukola Saraki, former governor of ...

Spokesman for the Pro-National Conference Organization (PRONACO) as well as the National Secretary of PROJECT NIGERIA (Nigeria Consensus Group), Chief Olawale Okunniyi says his recent defection to the ...

Mauritius parliament has ratified the appointment of prominent scientist, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, 56, as the country's new president, making her the first woman to hold the largely ceremonial position. P ...

Nuhu Ribadu, former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has enjoined members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the National Assembly to make public the income of Ni ...

President Goodluck Jonathan is certain that persecution and desertion by friends would be his portion after handing over power to the President-elect Major General Mohammadu Buhari on May 29. The same ...

The Senate has described the recent Supreme Court order that the status quo should be maintained as a temporal setback to the National Assembly’s quest to amend the 1999 constitution. It vowed that th ...

Ben Murray-Bruce, Chairman of Silverbird Media Group and Senator-elect from Bayelsa State has lend his voice to the call for the incoming administration of General Muhammadu Buhari to drastically redu ...

The campaign outfit of Dakuku Peterside, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), known as the Greater Together Campaign Organisation, (GTCO), has accused the Peoples Democra ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="Username" size="large" count="true" ] Democracy in Nigeria recorded a milestone following the atmosphere of peace and tranquillity that prevailed during and aft ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="Username" size="large" count="true" ] The much orchestrated 2015 presidential election has come and gone without a major political crisis and much to the relief ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="Username" size="large" count="true" ] General Muhammadu Buhari, president elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, under the banner of the All Progressives Con ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="Username" size="large" count="true" ] General Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) rides on the crest of ‘CHANGE’ to ...

Despite the controversy trailing his ministerial screening at the Senate penultimate week, Musiliu Obanikoro has been sworn in as the minister of state for foreign affairs II by President Goodluck Jon ...

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has expressed his fears for Nigeria ahead the epic elections and his grouse against the administration of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. In an exclusive inte ...

Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, March 16 unfolded his blueprint for the socioeconomic and political development of the country and i ...

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega has dismissed fears that its lingering legal tussle with the newly formed political party-the Young Democr ...

There appears to be no end to the legal imbroglio over the refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to formally register the Young Democratic Party (YDP) to participate in the M ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="Username" size="large" count="true" ] Two leading candidates in the Lagos State governorship race, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode of the All Progressives Congress (APC) a ...

Chief Martin Onovo, a seasoned petroleum engineer is the presidential flagbearer of the National Conscience Party (NCP) in the March 28, 2015 presidential poll. Mr. Onovo, who contested the 2011 presi ...

The emergence of General Muhammadu Buhari as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress has set the stage for an epic political battle between him and President Goodluck Jonathan, the ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] The October 11 governorship bye-election  in Adamawa State has pitched two legislators from rival parties – Senator Bin ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] Fifty four years after Nigeria gained independence from the British colonial  authorities amidst promises of becoming t ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] The impeachment of Murtala Nyako, erstwhile governor of  Adamawa State and the aborted impeachment bid against Governor ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, incumbent governor of Osun State and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress sh ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] The impending  August 9 governorship election in Osun  State appears to be a battle for supremacy between Ogbeni Rauf A ...

[stumble][Google][pinterest][follow id="DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, former governor of Edo State emerges as the new national chairman of the All Progressives Con ...

[Google][follow id="@DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] JOHN ALECHENU examines the import of a motion seeking to compel the suspended Governor of the Central  Bank of Nigeria, Lamido Sanusi, and ...

[Google][follow id="@DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] There are mixed fillings within the Niger Peoples Democratic Party as Governor Babangida Aliyu and the senator representing Niger-East sen ...

[Google][follow id="@DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] The centenary award given to 100 Nigerians by the Federal Government has thrown up more arguments than praise, writesALLWELL OKPI The plan ...

[Google][follow id="@DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] In this interview with JOHN ALECHENU, Russian-trained medical practitioner turned politician, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, who is one of the three ...

[Google][follow id="@DER29709692" size="large" count="true" ] The All Progressives Congress recently held its inaugural national summit and unveiled a draft code of ethics/manifesto, which may serve a ...