Buhari Backs Direct Party Primaries, Says House Speaker Gbajabiamila
Governors lobbying President Muhammadu Buhari not to assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill may have lost out in the equation going by the disclosure from the Speaker of the
Governors lobbying President Muhammadu Buhari not to assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill may have lost out in the equation going by the disclosure from the Speaker of the
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom on Tuesday said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would adopt consensus option for the emergence of its presidential candidate for the 2023 election. He also
Last week, Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council approved a five-year National Development Plan, NDP, targeting N348.7 trillion in investments from the federal and state governments as well as the private sector.
Myanmar has charged 16 people, including former elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, with election fraud over the 2020 elections, state media reported on Tuesday. Aung San Suu Kyi, former
The conduct of the just concluded Anambra State governorship poll once again brought to the fore the inability of the Independent National Electoral Commission to hold hitch-free elections in Nigeria.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has explained that the monitoring of the direct primaries of the 18 registered political parties in the country has financial and security implications, stating
Though President Muhammadu Buhari is yet to sign into law the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021, passed this week by the National Assembly, which, among other things, makes direct primaries
Controversy continues to swirl around the Paris Club loan refunds, following the concerns raised by the Nigerian Governors Forum over the decision by the attorney general and minister of justice,
Having listened to Abubakar Malami’s defence of his directive on the payment of $418 million to the consultants, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, Head of Media and Public Affairs at the Nigerian Governors’
Nigeria’s Senate on Wednesday approved the $16 billion, €1billion as well as a $125 million external loan request sent to it by President Muhammadu Buhari. The consideration followed a report
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For 16 unbroken years, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has remained the ruling party in Anambra State, southeast Nigeria. And now, with the victory of its candidate, Prof Charles
Fumio Kishida was reelected as Japan’s prime minister on Wednesday after his governing party scored a major victory in key parliamentary elections. Elected just over a month ago by parliament,
The upper chamber of Nigeria’s National Assembly on Tuesday condemned the invasion of the Abuja residence of Supreme Court Justice, Mary Peter-Odili, by security operatives. The Senate, which urged the
The National Assembly has adopted the electronic transmission of election results in line with the position of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Similarly, the legislative body also resolved that
Candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has emerged Anambra State governor-elect, after winning Tuesday’s supplementary
Nigeria’s 36 State Governors under the umbrella of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) have strongly chastised the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami over
With the supplementary poll in the Anambra State governorship election holding Monday in Ihiala Local Government Area, attention has shifted to the council area, just as interests have heightened among
Sudan’s army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has said he will not participate in any government that comes after a transitional period and denied that the army was responsible for
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has declared Anambra election inconclusive, following the failure of the exercise to hold in Ihiala Local Government Area. This followed the inability of the
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