Nigerian economist and politician, Professor Pat Utomi has said the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Labour Party (LP), the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) have agreed to form a mega party that will challenge the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027.
Utomi made this revelation...
North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un broke down in tears in front of thousands of women as he called on women to have more children, saying that it was their duty to halt the country's declining birth rate.
In his emotional plea, Kim Jong Un is seen dabbing his eyes with a...
The Kremlin says it hopes President Vladimir Putin will run in the March election for another term as Russian president, a move that would keep Putin in power until at least 2030.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview published on Friday, November 17.
Putin, who took over the presidency...
Since the completion of the 2023 general elections, attention has shifted to the courts that are deciding the petitions arising from the elections. In this piece, Okiki Adeduyite looks at the state governors so far sacked by courts and why they were sacked.
In a judgment on Sunday, the Court...
The Supreme Court has officially affirmed the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the last presidential election.
The apex court headed by Justice Okoro in its verdict struck out the appeals lodged by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and his Labour Party (LP)...
On Monday, social media went into overdrive after the Chicago State University released academic records of President Bola Tinubu following a court order.
Atiku Abubakar, Tinubu’s archrival in the 2023 presidential election had applied for the academic records in order to aid his appeal at the supreme court against the...
Gentlemen of the Press, Fellow Citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I consider it important to address and report to you today on issues that define the future of elective government and legitimate leadership in our country.
Political leadership and active citizenship matter because they are ways through which...
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has urged the Supreme Court to declare that the Presidential Election Petition Court’s five-man panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani erred in law when it dismissed his evidence allegedly showing he won the February 25 polls with about 8.7 million...
Phrank Shaibu, an aide to Atiku Abubakar, says the former vice-president withdrew a suit against President Bola Tinubu because he did not want to abuse court processes.
Tinubu claimed that he holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration from Chicago State University.
In January, Beverly Poindexter, the staff in charge of transcript requests, enrolment and...
The candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the presidential election held on the 25th day of February, 2023, Mr. Peter Gregory Obi, has filed his Final Written Address at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) holden at the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, insisting that the candidate...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as mischievous and intentionally misleading a social media post which claimed that the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Olukayode Ariwoola, allegedly informed President Bola Tinubu to prepare for a rerun election.
The report shared by Strategic Communication expert Jackson Ude also alleged that...
An Assistant Director in the Information Technology (IT) Department of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Dr. Lawrence Bayode, who was also its Witness, has said categorically that only 31% of results collated when INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, declared Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu the winner of the 2023...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may have been caught in the act red-handed deducting the scores of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Candidate, Mr. Peter Gregory Obi, while trying to make up for the 25 per cent deficient result of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Alhaji...
Today was arguably the Petitioners’ best day in court as Respondents were obviously taken unawares. Having adjourned yesterday to reconvene with presentation of witnesses in schedule, the Respondents’ counsels must have arrived court today, armed to the teeth with cross-examination iron bars, and hot iron bars for that matter.
But...
The immediate past governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, has shared the story of how he was poisoned by some persons at his party's secretariat in 2018 and how God helped him to survive the ordeal.
While speaking at his family thanksgiving service which held at St. Peter’s Anglican Church,...
Ace television presenter, Ms. Kadaria Ahmed, has clarified that a presidential candidate needs at least 25 per centage to win the presidential election in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
Ms. Ahmed, a Nigerian journalist, media entrepreneur, television host and the chief executive officer of RadioNow 95.3FM, disclosed this in...
The National Youth Leader of the Labour Party (LP), Kennedy Ahanotu, has accsued the All Progressives Congress (APC) of pushing all manner of baseless propaganda to misrepresent “our collective sense of equity and justice.”
Speaking at a press conference in Owerri, Imo State, on Sunday, the National Youth leader of...
According to the Directorate of State Services (DSS), “misguided” political actors are actually plotting to overthrow the constitution and install an interim government.
In a statement released on Wednesday, DSS spokesman Peter Afunanya claimed that the secret police will employ all tools at their disposal to thwart the plot.
A few...
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress and the president-elect, Mr Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has alleged that there is plot by one Lloyd Ukwu, a Nigerian living in the United States who is said to be the Executive Director of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), to falsely accuse...
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have withdrawn an application they filed to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to allow their agents to participate in the process of sorting out ballot papers and electoral papers that were used for the presidential election that...
...am only challenging the process
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), says he is only challenging the process leading to the declaration of Bola Tinubu as the president-elect.
Last month, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Tinubu, candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of...
Kyiv and other major cities in Ukraine, including Lviv, Kharkiv and Odesa, have been hit by a wave of Russian drone and missile strikes overnight, with air raid alerts activated across much of the country in the early hours of Thursday, March 9.
The head of Ukraine's armed forces said...
Politician Dino Melaye needs no introduction to Nigerians; neither is he new to controversies. His theatrics, however, set him apart from other controversial politicians of his ilk. He has traversed the country’s entire political gamut since the return to civil rule in 1999, moving from PDP to AC/ACN and...
The Independent National Electoral Commission has now uploaded 159,509 results from 176, 846 polling units, seven days after the presidential and national assembly elections.
The figure represents 90 per cent of results from all the polling units.
As of the time of filing this report, the electronic transmission of results was...
Dear Nigerians,
On 25th February 2023, Nigerians trooped out en-masse to participate in what was promised and expected to be a free, fair and transparent Presidential and National Assembly elections. But in all things, we are enjoined to give thanks.
First to Almighty God for the privilege of making Datti Baba-Ahmed...
Yiaga Africa, one of the Civil Society Organizations that worked with the Independent National Electoral Commission in the 2023 election has faulted the presidential results which emanated from Imo and Rivers state.
In a statement released on Wednesday, March 1, the organisation which deployed observers to states across the country, said...
Four days after the country’s presidential election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has uploaded 145, 519 results from 176, 846 polling units.
The number of polling units uploaded by the electoral body represents 82% of all polling unit results.
The electronic transmission of results was still in progress at the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, as the winner of the Saturday, February 25, presidential election.
The Chairman of the Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, who announced the final result at exactly 4.10 a.m. Wednesday, March 1, said after days of collation...
Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has won the presidential election in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
Obi secured 281,717 votes, Bola Tinubu of the ruling APC got 90,902 votes while Atiku Abubakar of the PDP got 74,199 votes.
A total of 478,923 people were accredited to vote in Abuja,...
The result declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has put the fate of both the ruling All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party hanging as both parties fail to beat the 25% mark stipulated by both the law and the electoral...
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has won Enugu State in the presidential election which took place on Saturday, February 25.
According to the result declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission collation officer in the state, Prof. Maduebibisi Ofo Iwe, Obi polled a total of 428,640...
A National Youth Service Corper working as ad hoc staff with INEC was caught thumbprinting over 6000 ballot papers for the ruling APC.
According to reports, the Corper locked himself inside a classroom and thumbprinted over 6000 ballot papers in Lugbe primary school, PU 009, in Abuja, while people were...
The PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has won the presidential election conducted in Gombe state.
According to the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, Atiku secured a total of 319, 123 to defeat his closest rival and All Progressives Congress candidate, Bola Tinubu who polled 146, 977 votes.
Labour Party's Peter Obi...
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP Peter Obi has defeated the presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in Lagos, his home state.
According to the results declared, Obi polled 582,664 while Tinubu scored 541,850.
Although, the APC candidate won more local government areas, Obi defeated Tinubu with the majority of the...
Police Officers from Rivers State Command deployed to INEC Headquarters Aba Road, today February 24, at about 0245hrs, while on stop and search, arrested one Hon Chinyere Igwe, a member House of Representatives representing Port Harcourt II Federal Constituency with a cash sum of 498,100 USD inside a bag...
The Senator representing the Kogi West constituency, Smart Adeyemi, has stressed that the 2023 presidential election on February 25 is between the presidential candidates of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, and the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Smart Adeyemi who picked up the Kogi State governorship nomination form...
The Central Bank of Nigeira, CBN has opened a portal for Nigerians to to deposit the old Naira notes by filling up forms.
This development comes after the adjournment of the case on the legality of the February 10, 2023 deadline for the Naira Swap to February 22 by the...
According to the most recent Nextier poll, Labour Party (LP) candidate Peter Obi is the favorite to win Nigeria’s presidential election in 2023.
According to the poll, Obi is ahead of All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Bola Tinubu, as well as other candidates, including Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flagbearer Atiku...
An Elder statesman, Tanko Yakasai, has expressed concern over the actions of some persons in the build up to the forthcoming 2023 presidential election.
He said there’s plot by undemocratic elements to manipulate the results of the
Yakasai made this known in a statement on Sunday entitled ‘Reflections of a 98-Year-Old...
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, at the party’s presidential campaign rally in Calabar, Cross River State, slammed the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government over the depreciation of the nation’s currency.
This comes few days after Tinubu criticised the government.
According to Tinubu, when the government...
The presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, said he “rescued” his counterpart at Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, when former President Olusegun Obasanjo, wanted to roast him.
Tinubu stated this while speaking at APC presidential rally held at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, Akwa...
The European Union Election Observation Mission has said that 100 observers would be deployed for the 2023 polls.
The Chief Observer, EU EOM, Barry Andrews stated this during the launch of the EU EOM to Nigeria 2023, in Abuja on Monday.
Andrews said the EU EOM was deployed by the EU...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday launched the deployment of the National Domestic Card Scheme in a bid to unify payment in the country.
With the deployment, Nigeria has now been enlisted into the growing list of countries like India, Turkey, China, and Brazil that have launched similar...
Ukraine's Defence Minister, Oleksii Reznikov has said his country had become a de facto member of the NATO alliance, even as Western countries continue to change their “thinking approach” – against previous thinking that military assistance could be seen as an escalation by Russia.
In an interview with the BBC...
A former media aide to former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the 2023 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has opened upon the vast corruption allegations against his former boss.
The estranged aide also disclosed why it is impossible to nab Alhaji Abubakar on corruption charges as...
The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Datti Baba-Ahmed broke down in tears during the Town Hall meeting organized by Channels Television while speaking about insults directed at his family by political opponents.
During the event, which was held on Sunday night, Baba-Ahmed recalled how his family and the...
Prophet Bisi Olujobi, the founder of Wisdom Church of Christ International in Lagos, has predicted that the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, will win this year’s presidential election.
The septuagenarian prophet revealed in 40 prophecies released in a statement over the weekend that Governor Seyi Makinde of...
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been sworn in as Brazil's president while his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro flee to the US after refusing to concede defeat
In a speech to Congress on Sunday after officially taking the reins of Latin America's biggest country, Lula said democracy was the true winner of the October presidential vote...
The 2023 presidential race is getting more interesting as campaigns, town hall meetings and media engagement intensify.
Almost all the presidential candidates, especially those at the pole position: Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Neople’s Party (NNPP); Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Peter Obi of...
American politician and Democrat, Wes Moore has been elected Maryland’s first Black governor after defeating Republican Dan Cox in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1.
According to AP News, votes on Tuesday October 8, show that Moore defeated Republican Dan Cox, meaning he is now the first Black governor...
A new public opinion poll conducted by NOIPolls revealed that the majority of adult Nigerians (80 per cent) disclosed that they have collected their Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC) ahead of the 2023 general elections.
On the contrary, 17 per cent of adult Nigerians stated that they have not collected their...
The 61-year-old presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has won 61 victories even before Nigerians cast their first votes in the 2023 presidential election. Some of the victories are for Nigeria, some are for the Igbo people, and some are for the state that Peter Obi once...
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Monday flagged-off its presidential campaign amidst an unresolved internal crisis.
An angry Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and his allies, who are yet to be assuaged after the party’s presidential primary, sent a clear signal to the rally.
Though the campaign flag-off was well...
The Spiritual Leader of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, His Holiness Olumba Olumba Obu has asked corrupt politician not to waste their time as they will not win the Presidential election.
Speaking during a press briefing at the international headquarters of his Organization in Calabar, Olumba Olumba stated that...
I have read quite a lot of social media posts debating the possibility of Peter Obi winning the election. Some writers constantly deride Obi’s supporters, arguing that ‘’he does not have what it takes’’ to win a presidential race. Of course, central to this thesis is the issue of...
A former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili has given reasons why the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi is better than other candidates contesting for the 2023 election.She stated that though Obi has been in politics in the past as well, he represents a breath of fresh air...
