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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A majority of state Assembly members support beginning impeachment proceedings against Gov. Andrew Cuomo if he doesn’t resign over investigative findings that he sexually harassed at least 11 women, according
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu says the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is “hale and hearty” in London, the United Kingdom. Mr Sanwo-Olu told journalists on
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum has appealed to members and ‘stakeholders’ of the party to remain calm over Tuesday resignation of seven national deputy officers of the party.
For the two main political parties in Nigeria – the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – the road to 2023 appears inauspicious. Both
The crisis rocking Nigeria’s opposition People’s Democratic Party has deepened following the resignation of seven deputy national officers of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) in protest against what they
All things being equal, the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is likely to annul its ward congresses held last Saturday, the first in a series of steps in
There are concerns that the just concluded ward congresses of Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will be an exercise in futility given the split decision of the Supreme Court
Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu has ordered the deployment of the military to suppress electoral violence ahead of the 12 August general elections – amid criticism by the opposition and other
Worried by the narrow escape of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), in retaining Ondo State and the broader implications of the pronouncement by the Supreme Court, particularly, as
A former president of Nigeria’s Senate Bukola Saraki is presently in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) where he is being quizzed over alleged misappropriation of
Rattled by last Wednesday’s minority judgement of the Supreme Court on the Ondo State governorship election, which punched holes in the legality of the actions of its National Caretaker Committee’s
Lagos state governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu is a beneficiary of a bad system and as such sees nothing wrong with the widely condemned recently conducted local government elections, according to
Wednesday’s Supreme Court judgement in the Ondo State governorship election might have opened the pandora’s box within the All Progressives Congress (APC) and exposed the ruling party to a bleak
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