Category: Politics

Professor Benedict Ayade is a man of many parts. What he says and how he says them has a way of re-echoing long after he ended his speech. Shortly after securing second term in office, Ayade said he would devolve the full powers of the office to his deputy. He has a way of abbreviating […]

Ozekhome Carpets NASS, Says Democracy No Longer In Practice The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday declared that it has capacity and the required technological infrastructure to transmit results electronically in remote areas. INEC’s National Chairman and Commissioner for Information and Voter Education, Mr Festus Okoye, stated this during a Channels TV programme. Lawmakers in […]

Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinaya Abaribe has disclosed that most of his colleagues betrayed him after he spoke to them on electronic voting provision in the electoral act, saying the betrayal forced him to call for division, to expose them to the world. A close ally of the minority leader spoke to Senate press corps […]

A resolution by the Senate empowering the National Communications Commission (NCC) to determine that a network is adjudged secured and approved by the National Assembly before the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) can transmit election results electronically, on Thursday, led to uproar in the Upper Chamber. Deputy Chief Whip Aliyu Abdullahi had during consideration of […]

APC faults claim as laughable Peoples Democratic Party( PDP) governors in the North alleged yesterday that the Muhammadu-led Buhari Administration is intimidating them and other members of the opposition party to join the All Progressives Congress (APC). They claimed that some of their colleagues, including Ben Ayade of Cross River State and Bello Matawalle (Zamfara), […]

Confusion has trailed the emergence of Senator Andy Uba as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the Anambra State November 6 governorship poll. The Chairman of the APC primary election panel and Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, announced the outcome of the poll at Golden Tulip Hotel, Agulu Lake, Awka, early on […]