Politics

  The Chief Whip of the Senate and former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, on Thursday afternoon received the newly-elected officials of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in his Abuja residence. The team was led by the National Secretary of the PDP, Senator Samuel Anyanwu. Anyanwu, a ...

  The House of Representatives on Thursday invited the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof Yakubu Mahmood to address concerns about the cost of running direct primaries. Mahmood is to appear before the House Committees on INEC and Appropriation on the matter. This resolution followed the adoption ...

  The headquarters of a faction of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been set ablaze. This happened on Thursday morning. The building located along Maiduguri road, in Kano metropolis, was set ablaze by thugs suspected to be against the Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau’s APC faction.     POLITICS NIGERIA ...

  A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit that sought to disqualify the governorship and deputy governorship candidates of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the last governorship election in Anambra State – Charles Soludo and Onyeka Ibezim. The plaintiffs – Adindu Valentine and Egwudike Chukwuebuka ...

  The Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS) has said the President of Ilana Omo Oodua, Prof Banji Akintoye, and his deputy, Shade Olukoya, have unresolved issues within their Yoruba separatist group, which have nothing to do with NINAS. The self-determination group disclosed that the main problem started when ...

The All Progressives Congress, Anambra State chapter, has announced that a disciplinary committee had been formed to examine Minister of Labour and Employment Dr Chris Ngige and Director-General of National Inland Waterways Chief George Moghalu after both were accused of conducting anti-APC activities. The news was announced by APC State ...

  The All Progressives Congress (APC) has run into fresh murky waters as a faction sacks Mai Mala Buni. The faction has also attacked President Buhari over his supervision of the party. Buni, Yobe State Governor, is Chairman, APC Caretaker/Extraordinary National Convention Planning Committee (CECPC). On Monday, a unit within ...

Some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress aspiring to contest for the National Chairmanship of the party are in danger of losing out due to indictment by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, THE WHISTLER has learnt on Friday. The APC is currently being administered by a 13-man Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary Convention ...

  A founding member of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and elder statesman, Tanko Yakasai, has revealed that national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu was at his Abuja residence on Wednesday to solicit support for his (Tinubu’s) presidential ambition in the 2023 general elections. Although ...

  Former vice-president Atiku Abubakar clocks 75 today, without the usual goodwill message from President Muhammadu Buhari. It was not clear whether the presidential snub was a mere omission or deliberate. Atiku, despite the political difference with Buhari attended the wedding of Buhari’s first son, Yusuf in Bichi, Kano last ...