Category: Politics

A presidential aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, on Monday, officially resigned his position in the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari as the Minister of Transportation to focus on his aspiration to contest for the 2023 presidency. In a press statement issued by the Amaechi Presidential Media […]

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it is too late to tinker with the schedule of activities for the 2023 general elections. Mr Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, stated this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. Okoye spoke against […]

Aspirants, who are waiting for refunds from the All Progressives Congress after stepping down at the March 26 national convention of the party, may have to keep waiting as the Presidency has said that President Muhammadu Buhari only “advised” the APC to refund aspirants who stepped down. In an interview with Channels Television, the Senior […]

Some top Igbo elites under the aegis of the Greater Nigerian Conference have said it will be unfair on the Igbo for another northerner to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari when he leaves office after eight years. This is as they urged the major political parties, the ruling All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party, […]

Bauchi Assembly No fewer than 150 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bauchi State have obtained forms for the House of Assembly primaries in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that there are 30 constituencies across the 20 local government areas of the state. Mr Abdulkadir Gyngyn, Organising Secretary of […]

Vows to be resolute against political pressure as 18 parties submit register Considers relocation of sensitive materials from CBN Says commission can’t regulate cost of nomination forms for politicians The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, announced it might move sensitive materials from the Central Bank of Nigeria to another location. Speaking during a consultative […]

• FG releases detailed categories of persons expected to resign • Emefiele meets Buhari, says there will be news soon • Political appointees sue APC, INEC over disqualification threats • Afenifere: You’ve done well by asking appointees to resign but apply same decisiveness to insecurity, ASUU Ministers affected by the presidential directive to resign after […]