Category: Politics

A group, Focus Vanguard Group, in Badagry, Lagos State on Saturday urged Nigerians to shun politics of rice and ram as dividends of democracy. Its Coordinator, Bankole Timothy, gave the advice at the group’s endorsement of Babatunde Hunpe, aide to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode on Environment, to represent Badagry in the House of Representatives come 2019. […]

– says restructuring will make Nigeria work The presidential aspirant of the Young Progressive Party (YPP), Prof Kingsley Moghalu, has stated that the combined 20 years of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have left a legacy of poverty, instability, unemployment and a lot of corruption in Nigeria. This is […]

Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki on Wednesday boasted that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party will win the 2019 presidential elections. He said this in Ilorin at a meeting with PDP members who came from the 16 local government areas of the state. He also expressed his confidence that his new party would emerge victorious in […]

The Democratic Alternative and Masses Movement of Nigeria, that participated in the August 18 Port Harcourt Constituency 3 by-election have described the suspension of the election as unnecessary and unlawful. Mr Obrasua Johnbull, Chairman of DA in Rivers, stated this at a joint news conference in Port Harcourt on Wednesday by the two political parties. […]

Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has accused a cabal of running President Muhammadu Buharis government. He also declared that he had been under tremendous pressure to join the 2019 presidential race. Addressing thousands of youths and students who stormed the Governor’s Office in appreciation of his involving the youths in his administration, Tambuwal […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday announced the registration of 23 new political parties, raising the number of registered parties in Nigeria to 91. Some of the new parties bear acronyms that can be easily recalled, such as YES, which means YES Electorates Solidarity and RAP, the Reform and Advancement Party. There are […]

The leadership of the National Assembly says there is no date yet fixed for lawmakers to reconvene for the purpose of considering the 2019 election budget. Yusuf Lasun, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives had said last week that members of both legislative chambers would reconvene on Tuesday, but a joint statement issued by […]

The Federal Government says it has no hand in the call for resignation or impeachment of the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, because “it is purely party affairs.’’ The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed made government’s position known on Tuesday when he paid advocacy visit to the Abuja office of Blueprints […]

– says Buhari administration will not cave in to blackmail Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo has described the current political happenings in Nigeria as a battle between the good and bad elements whose aim was to continue suffocating the nation by milking it dry. He said that the Federal Government “would not compromise” in the […]