Category: Politics

PDP presidential aspirant and former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki (right) with former PDP Chairman and former Governor of Kaduna State, Ahmed Makarfi, addressing journalists during a courtesy call by Saraki to Makarfi’s Kaduna home, at the weekend South East APC presidential aspirants may meet next week Groups explain why Adesina, Onu deserve the […]

Photo: Nairametrics Fasua: Injection of CBN chief, Adesina points to more complex game plan He has no moral, ethical reason to remain in office, say lawyers HEDA petitions ICPC to investigate Emefiele After months of speculation, the picking of expression of interest and nomination form by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele, to […]

Ijaw national leader and First Republic Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, speaks to Friday Olokor about the 2023 general election, demand for South-East presidency and related issues. You have been in politics for quite a long time. Now, seven years into the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, some Nigerians believe that he has […]

Lawmakers warn parties not to jettison zoning As a precondition for submitting their expression of interest and nomination forms, presidential aspirants on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress are to submit with the forms the signatures of 10 statutory delegates from each state and the Federal Capital Territory, it has been learnt. One […]

Presidential aspirant under the banner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Dele Momodu, is seen by many as a lightweight, going by the number of big career politicians he is up against in the race for the party’s sole ticket. However, the businessman publisher of Ovation International magazine is not cowed as he insists […]

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has denied reports that he might contest the 2023 presidential election. The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria had on Saturday asked Nigerians not to be shocked should the Chairman of INEC buy the All Progressives Congress N100 million Expression of Interest and Nomination forms […]

The apex socio,-cultural organisation of the Ijaw nation, the Ijaw National Congress (INC), has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to order the release of Hon Farah Dagogo. Dagogo, a federal lawmaker representing Degema/Bonny in the House of Representatives, was reportedly arrested on Wike’s order for allegedly disrupting the screening […]

By Banji Ayoola Politicians promoting northern presidency after the eight year tenure of the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, a northerner, have been cautioned to drop the idea or be regarded as enemies of Nigeria’s unity. While handing down the warning, the Chairman of Yoruba Ronu Group, YRG, Prince Diran Iyantan, said: “We must express our […]

By Banji Ayoola One of the presidential aspirants under the banner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and a United States-based doctor, Dr. Nwachukwu Anakwenze, has debunked his reported disqualification by the party from the the 2023 presidential race as “fake news.” He advised those allegedly spreading fake news about his disqualification to desist from […]