Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has suspended the Continuous Voter Registration Exercise (CVR) exercise in Ihitte Uboma Local Government Area of Imo State, following an attack on the centre
Reno Omokri, a former aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan has stated that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s presidential declaration speech was emptier than the West Africa Examination Council certificate of
The crisis over the zoning of the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for next year’s election has pitched aspirants from Southeast with two governors from the region.
Chairman of Nigeria’s Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), and Kebbi State governor, Atiku Bagudu, on Monday said the All Progressive Congress (APC) does not rule out the possibility of a consensus
Obviously not expecting one of his political mentees to challenge him to a presidential contest, former Lagos State governor and frontline presidential hopeful, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Monday, denied Vice
Former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki says a consensus candidate is likely to emerge from the Peoples Democratic Party for the presidential elections. Saraki spoke after a meeting with
French leader Emmanuel Macron and challenger Marine Le Pen qualified for what promises to be a very tightly fought presidential election runoff on April 24, pitting a pro-European economic liberal
Nigeria’s Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday officially declared his intention to contest the 2023 presidential election. He made the declaration on Monday morning in an address on various various
Polls opened across France on Sunday for the first round of the country’s presidential election, where up to 48 million voters seek to elect one of 12 candidates, as President
There has been an outrage from a section of the people’s democratic party, the PDP over over the party’s decision to jettison zoning arrangement in the selection of the presidential
Ahead of his declaration for presidency in 2023, which is likely expected this week, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will meet with the 22 governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress
After months of speculations over his political ambition, Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, Saturday declared his ambition to contest the 2023 presidential election. Amaechi, who made the declaration in
Southern governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have rejected the report of the 37-man committee that recommended that the presidential ticket of the main opposition
The quest by some presidential aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for a consensus flagbearer for the party ahead of their Presidential primaries is looking more like a fruitless
A federal high court in Abuja dismisses a lawsuit seeking to declare the seat of the Governor of Cross River State, Ben Ayade; his deputy, Ivara Esu, vacant following their
French President Emmanuel Macron voiced regret on Friday for starting campaigning late as opinion polls showed him holding a slender lead over the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who he
The nation’s 30-year-old revenue allocation formula would soon be reviewed with a proposal by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) for the reduction of the allocation to federal
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday formally received in audience the new National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, at the State House, Abuja, with a
In submission to the principle of ‘Stare disisis’ Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, on Thursday refused to order the removal of Cross River
Nigeria’s main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday said it would convene a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting to consider the report of its zoning committee. THISDAY had
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