Politics

Godwin Obaseki A Federal High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State, has dismissed the suit by African Action Congress, AAC, seeking to nullify the result of September 19, 2020, Edo State governorship election won by Governor Godwin Obaseki on account of its (AAC) exclusion from the election. Trial judge …

President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill will become the new White House residents when he takes office on Wednesday. Biden has made his family a major focus throughout his career, and his 2020 presidential campaign thrust them fully into the spotlight — with some members causing controversy but others …

As part of moves to forge a united APC in Odo-Otin local government, the representatives of the local government in the cabinet of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, have advised aggrieved members to lay all agitations to rest for the sake of peace and unity of the State. Speaking on behalf of …

BARELY three days to Kano State local government elections, the Chairman, State Independent Electoral Commission, Prof. Ibrahim Sheka, on Tuesday declared that elections were always like war. “Our elections are always warlike, while it is trailed and marred with chaos and uncertainty. Elections in Kano are always warlike,” he repeated. …

The Joint Senate and House of Representatives Committees on the Independent National Electoral Commission and Electoral Matters, has proposed an extension to the tenure of Local Government Chairmen, in the Federal Capital Territory, from three to four years. The committees equally proposed an upward review of the amount to be …

Former Imo State Governor, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has called for a new political alliance with people of like minds to rescue Nigeria from its present predicaments. Okorocha made the call while commissioning the Rumuche/Rumuakunde/Ohna Awuse Link Road in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, on Monday. Okorocha, who represents …

The Federal Government is not subsiding Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol and has no plan to do so, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, said on Tuesday. She also stated that the government did not make any provision for electricity subsidy in 2021 and would not …

A faction of the Kwara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress loyal to Bashir Bolarinwa, has rejected the decision of the party’s National Caretaker Committee removing him from office as state chairman. A delegation of party supporters from the state, stormed the APC National Secretariat, in Abuja, on Wednesday …

A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit challenging the validity of the All Progressives Congress primary which produced Rotimi Akeredolu, as APC candidate for the October 10, 2020, Ondo State Governorship Election. Delivering judgement on the suit, on Wednesday, Justice Iyang Ekwo held that the case instituted …

Counsel to the All Progressives Congress and that of the Independent National Electoral Commission, cross-examined the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Eyitayo Jegede SAN, during Tuesday’s sitting of the Election Petition Tribunal, in Akure. Jegede had filed a petition to challenge the outcome of the governorship election in which …