Politics

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has debunked rumours of his alleged meeting with the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. According to a report by Daily Trust an organisation that called itself the Sokoto State Coalition of …

The acting Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has described the involvement of the Commission in the electoral process in the country as a necessary intervention needed to arrest the emerging trend of vote- buying and other criminal acts during the exercise. Speaking in Yoruba during a special programme on Bond 92.9FM …

President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja assented to Engineers (Registration etc) Amendment Bill, 2019, which among others, bars the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) from henceforth, posting graduates of engineering to secondary schools to teach. The bill which has now become the Act of the National Assembly seeks to promote …

GOVERNOR Mohammed Bello of Niger State, yesterday, said those pushing the former vice president and presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in February 23 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to challenge the outcome of the election in court could be doing so to get money from him. According to him, …

President Buhari on Thursday said that those that generate and also spread fake and misleading news particularly on social media, do not live in Nigeria. The President said this when he received a delegation of the Nigerian Union of Journalists led by Chris Isiguzo at the State House today March 21st. …

The Adamawa State supplementary governorship election slated for Saturday has been put on hold as Justice Abdulaziz Waziri of the Adamawa State High Court on Thursday in Yola, adjourned ruling on a counter motion filed by INEC, seeking to vacate a motion ex parte restraining INEC from conducting the supplementary …

The Peoples Democratic Party PDP has said that its candidate in the February 23rd presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, beat its main contender and incumbent, President Buhari, by 1.6 million votes. Punch reports that the party stated this in a petition it filed before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja on Monday …

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has filed a petition before the presidential election tribunal to challenge President Muhammadu Buhari’s  reelection. Atiku filed the petition before the tribunal in Abuja on Monday, asking it to declare him authentic winner of the election or order that a …

EFCC has re-arraigned a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal and three others before Justice Jude Okeke of a Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, Maitama. Lawal along with his younger brother, Hamidu David Lawal, one Suleiman Abubakar, Apeh John Monday and two companies, Rholavision Engineering …

Former president Goodluck Jonathan, has denied reports that he has resigned as a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In a statement released by his media adviser, Ikechukwu Eze, the former president said that a ‘fake story’ had claimed that he had dumped the party on whose platform he rose to …