Author: Olabanji Ayoola

as parties sign peace accord ahead of November 8 poll Over 55,000 security operatives to monitor exercise  By John Dike, Osogbo Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, SAN, has charged staff of the Commission in Anambra State to ensure flawless logistics and prompt commencement of voting in the November 8 governorship election, […]

Douye Diri, governor of Bayelsa state, has officially defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). He was received into the ruling party on Monday by Kashim Shettima, the vice-president, at a rally in Yenagoa, the state capital. The event drew a large crowd of supporters and top political figures across the south-south geopolitical zone. Nentawe […]

The battle for the control of the Peoples Democratic Party took a new twist on Monday in Abuja when loyalists of the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, forcefully took over the party’s National Secretariat, Wadata Plaza, in the absence of governors elected on the party’s platform and their loyalists. Members of the National Working […]

The Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has claimed that she was briefly stopped from travelling abroad on Tuesday after immigration officials seized her international passport at the airport. In a Facebook live video obtained on Tuesday, the lawmaker was seen confronting immigration personnel over the action, which she described as an unlawful restriction of […]

President Bola Tinubu. Photo: State House President Bola Tinubu is set to conclude the appointment of ambassadors to Nigeria’s foreign missions worldwide after months of diplomatic gaps and growing pressure over the country’s absence of envoys abroad. Multiple Presidency officials familiar with the development told our correspondent that the President had ordered a “final cleanup” […]