As the tension continues to subside in Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party all eyes ard now on the October Convention initially fixed for December. With the
Electoral officials in Zambia has commenced vote counting following the successful staging of the southern African nation’s general elections. After 12 hours of voting, polling stations started closing at 6
Doyin Okupe, a former senior aide to ex-Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan says the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the country’s opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) are one and same.
Nigeria’s opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has filed a suit before a Federal High Court in Abuja, demanding the removal of Mai Mala Buni as Yobe State governor. The PDP
Zambians are voting in nationwide elections after a tense campaign dominated by economic woes and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Approximately seven million citizens are registered to vote for
Former National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, on Wednesday asked some persons he described as distractions to leave him out of the leadership debate
A former Nigerian Minister of Works and member of the country’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adeseye Ogunlewe says age is irrelevant when citizens set out to choose their next
The Nigerian Government on Tuesday summoned its Ambassador to Indonesia, Muhammed Buba Ahmed for debriefing over the circumstances surrounding the manhandling and arrest of the one of the nation’s diplomat
After meeting for over 40 minutes behind closed doors on Monday, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors and the embattled National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, appeared to
Soaring food prices and economic hardship could sway this week’s tightly-contested Zambian presidential vote in favour of the opposition, AFP news agency is reporting. President Edgar Lungu, who is vying
Senator John Akpanudoedehe, Secretary of Nigeria’s governing All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) says the heavy security presence noticed at the party’s national secretariat is
The Jacob Zuma Foundation says Tuesday’s planned hearing relating to the corruption trial of former South African President Jacob Zuma is set to be postponed. Their stance was stated in
With exactly 559 days to the 2023 presidential election, the search for a new leader for Africa’s most populous country and largest economy – Nigeria – has begun. The Independent
The crisis rocking Nigeria’s opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has deepened with four national vice chairmen of the party calling on the embattled National Chairman, Uche Secondus to resign from
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo held a meeting with President of Benin Republic, Patrice Talon in the first week of August to seek soft landing for an agitator for Yoruba Nation,
The United States Senate has moved closer to passing a $1 trillion infrastructure package after lawmakers from both parties came together and voted to clear a key procedural hurdle, but
A former Nigerian military leader Ibrahim Babangida says there would have been a violent coup if the 1993 June 12 elections weren’t annulled. Mr Babaginda stated this on Friday in
The tyranny of Nigerian elites has been hindering the implementation of resolutions reached at the 2014 national conference, former head of state, Ibrahim Babaginda has said. The former Nigerian military
Ebrahim Raisi has been sworn in as Iran’s eighth president. At the ceremony in the country’s parliament in Tehran on Thursday, Raisi, with a hand on a Quran, read the
The intervention, Thursday, by some political elders in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) saved the embattled national chairman of the main opposition party, Prince Uche Secondus, from a planned removal
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