Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Sheriff Folarin, Covenant University For ten years, the Nigerian authorities have engaged the terror group Boko Haram in the northeast without making much headway. After what appeared to be some success in 2015 and 2016, there was a resurgence of Boko Haram violence in 2017. This worsened with the emergence of Islamic State in West Africa and, ...

The All Progre‎ssives Congress (APC), yesterday, inaugurated its campaign for the Edo State governorship election at the University of Benin Sports Complex, Ugbowo in Benin City with 11 governors and and one deputy governor of the party in attendance. The governors who attended the event include Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State and Chairman, APC National Caretaker Committe, Atiku Abubakar Bagudu ...

The governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has said he would not support a northern candidate for the presidency in 2023. El-Rufai said this on Saturday in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service as published by The Cable. According to him, the idea of zoning the presidential seat is necessarily not constitutional, but is based on the country’s political arrangement which he believes ...

Chief Henry Dele Ajomale, an associate of All Progressives Congress national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and a former chairman of the ruling APC in Lagos state, in this interview with Saturday Sun, warned that no force can stop the current momentum of Tinubu’s presidential aspiration in 2023 even as he faulted the country’s present political structure adding that  any ...

The bid by 13 traditional rulers from Anambra State to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari and tender a petition against their state governor, Chief Willie Obiano, failed yesterday as the meeting was put on hold at the eleventh hour. The traditional rulers’ visit was facilitated by billionaire businessman, Chief Arthur Eze, who has been having a running battle with Governor Obiano. ...

The Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Friday alleged that his counterpart in Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, has failed woefully. Ganduje, who is also the leader of the All Progressives Congress national campaign team for the forthcoming governorship election, claimed Obaseki’s abysmal performance would make the election a walkover for the APC. Ganduje and Obaseki were both members of the ...

The political chess game in Edo State, ahead of the September 19 governorship election, shifted to the House of Assembly, yesterday, with the invasion of the legislative complex  by operatives of the Anti-Robbery Squad and emergence of Victor Edoror (APC Esan Central) as factional Speaker. He was elected at a parallel sitting held in a secret location after a motion for ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has blasted the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, over his comments on the donation of operational vehicles to serving judges in the state. According to the APC, it is obvious, from unfolding events, that the Governor’s utterances during the occasion of the official handover of the said vehicles have more than anything ...

Christian Aburime A group of eminent personalities in Anambra state desirous of drafting Prof Chukwuma Soludo, former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and Chairman Anambra Vision 2070 to contest for the Anambra 2021 gubernatorial election have concluded plans to begin the ground work for Prof Soludo who is yet to formally declare for the race. The meeting ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, on Monday, asked a former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, to present his Primary School Leaving Certificate if he actually went to school. The Chairman of the PDP Campaign Council for the Edo governorship election, Chief Dan Orbih, made the demand while addressing party members and supporters in the Akoko-Edo Local Government ...