The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has faulted members of the National Assembly for using voice vote on such crucial national matters as a breach of the constitution. Obi, who had made a passionate appeal to members of the National Assembly not to endorse the illegal removal of the Rivers State Governor Siminalayi ...

The Senate and the House of Representatives on Thursday approved the state of emergency imposed on Rivers State by President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday. The resolution was taken at Thursday’s closed-door session of the legislators to deliberate on the declaration and the suspension of Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Ngozi Odu, and other elected officials. The session was announced after ...

  The 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Adewole Adebayo, has said President Bola Tinubu will be defeated in the 2027 elections. The SDP chieftain also claimed that his party will produce the next Nigerian President. Adewale stated this on Friday while appearing on Arise Television’s The Morning Show. “Tinubu is going to be removed from power, that ...

…says he remains a bonafide PDP member  Former Nigeria’s Vice-President and presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) in the 2023 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has debunked what he called unverified information by some news platforms that he is abandoning the PDP. He said rather that there’s a grand coalition to rescue Nigeria from the grip of the All Progressives ...

Following the resignation of Mojisola Meranda as the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, impeached Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, has been returned as the Speaker of the Assembly. The Punch reported that Meranda stepped down from the role with immediate effect. Obasa was returned as the speaker during Monday’s plenary session. In January, he was impeached by members of ...

The unfolding events in the Lagos State House of Assembly over the past few weeks have exposed the dangerous erosion of democratic principles in Nigeria’s commercial capital, says the former Vice-President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. In a statement signed by his media aide, Paul Ibe, Atiku said just days after Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, a founding leader of the All ...

The Peter Obi Media Reach (POMR), says for the umpteenth time, blackmailers have resurrected a fictitious and malicious write-up hoping to use it to dent the rising political profile of the Labour Party Presidential Candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi. According to the group, unknown to the blackmailers,  “no matter how widespread and fast a lie travels, when truth ...

Abdul-Wasi Babatunde Moshood, Lagos State University African countries have had nine successful military coups since 2020. In west and central Africa, there have been at least 10 coup attempts in the same period. Those of Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Gabon and Guinea were successful. A number of social, economic and political factors have been identified as responsible for the truncation ...

Former Nigeria’s Vice-President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, says Nigerians bore witness to a chilling display of lawlessness yesterday, as the Bola Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress (APC) exposed the depths of its desperation to retain power at all costs — through sheer political brigandage and the subversion of democracy. ...

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdulahi Umar Ganduje, has promised that the party will connect Anambra state to the centre of Nigeria’s government in November. He said that states in the southeast zone of the country need no longer miss out in the governance of the country. According to him, the easiest way for the region ...