Politics

Ahead of the May 29 inauguration, the Department of State Services (DSS) has, again, raised the alarm over plans by subversive elements to disrupt the programmes in some parts of the country. The Public Relations Officer, DSS, Dr Peter Afunanya, who made the disclosure in a statement, yesterday, in Abuja, urged the media and the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to ...

By Raymond Ozoji, Awka The Professor Dora Akunyili Women Development Centre Awka on Tuesday 23rd May, 2023, was filled to capacity as the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) faithful from the 21 local government areas of Anambra state converged to attest to the political sagacity, bridge-building as well as astute administrative acumen of Chief Barr. Ifeatu Obi-Okoye, who became a ...

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the just concluded General Election, Peter Obi, has faulted the call made by the US Secretary of the State, Antony J. Blinken, to President-elect, Bola Tinubu, adding that he should let the court decide the legitimate president of Nigeria. Obi said this in a series of tweets on his verified Twitter handle ...

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has shared concerns about the possible inauguration of Bola Tinubu as president if the ongoing court case is not resolved before the swearing in of the president-elect. Speaking candidly in an interview with The Guardian, on the subject of the ongoing court case and the possibility of the PDP ...

  …denies receiving N500m to scuttle Obi’s case against Tinubu The factional National Chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Lamidi Apapa, who was mobbed at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, the venue of the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, on Wednesday, has thanked God for saving his life. Apapa, while addressing newsmen shortly after he was released from ...

By Raymond Ozoji,  Awka As the contest for the chairmanship position of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra state draws closer, Chief Barr. Ifeatu Obi-Okoye, who is aspiring to be the next APGA state chairman, has announced his plans and intentions to reorganise and redirect the party towards a more profitable end. Obi-Okoye who outlined lofty ideas to ...

•Governor receives senators-elect in Lagos, urges inclusion in choice of presiding officers  Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Sunday, pitched his support for Stability Group rooting for the emergence of Senator Goodswill Akpabio and Senator Barau Jibrin as President and Deputy President of the 10th Senate. The Governor said he aligned himself with All Progressives Congress (APC) zoning decision, having ...

  With barely 17 days to the scheduled swearing in of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, five residents of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, have approached the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court for an order to halt the ceremony. The plaintiffs, in the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/578/2023, applied for an order, restraining the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice ...

  The Supreme Court of Nigeria in its verdict on Tuesday, declared Ademola Adeleke as the Governor of Osun State. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared that Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party polled 403,371 votes, to defeat then-incumbent governor Adegboyega Oyetola, of the All Progressives Congress, who got 375,027 votes. But Oyetola and the APC rejected the ...

Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu, yesterday, pledged that his administration would put incentives and policies in place to make corruption unattractive for judges and other legal officials working in the judiciary.Tinubu made the promise during the inauguration of the Magistrate Courts Complex in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. This was disclosed in a statement issued by one of his media aides, Abdulaziz ...