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A support group of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, the Progressive League of Youth Voters, has dragged the deputy speaker, House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, to President Bola Tinubu and APC national chairman, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, over alleged anti-party activities, saying he was working against the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Nkiruka […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission has released the amended lists of candidates for Bayelsa and Imo States governorship elections. According to the amended list uploaded on the commission’s website on Tuesday, the names of Timipre Sylva and his running mate, Joshua Maciver of the All Progressives Congress were not included in the Bayelsa State election. […]
The United States chapter of All Progressives Congress has warned leading opposition parties and critics of the current administration to be wary of court contempt when whipping up sentiments on the controversy surrounding President Bola Tinubu’s Chicago State University academic certificate. The warning is coming hours after the Chairman of the Supreme Court panel hearing […]
Following the intervention of the All Progressives Congress, APC’s National Working Committee, the Ondo State House of Assembly yesterday asked the state’s Chief Judge, Justice Olusegun Odusola, to form a seven-man panel to investigate allegations of gross misconduct levelled against the embattled Deputy Governor, Mr. Lucky Ayedatiwa, following the expiration of the interim injunction granted […]
The Chairman of the Supreme Court panel hearing the appeals against the election of President Bola Tinubu, Justice John Okoro, said on Monday that the Peoples Democratic Party standard bearer in the February presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, must prove the allegation of certificate forgery levelled against the ex-Lagos State governor beyond reasonable doubt. Okoro handed […]
The Executive Director of the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, (CISLAC), Auwal Musa Rafsanjani said religious leaders have lost their integrity and respect, adding that they’ve become “beggars to political leaders.” According to him, communities and religious leaders who ought to uphold justice and serve as beacons of truth in society have become ‘beggars’ of […]
The Supreme Court will today (Monday) commence hearing on appeals filed by Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party and the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, seeking to unseat President Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The newsmen reports that Atiku, Obi, and the APM […]
The leadership of the Labour Party on Friday raised an alarm that the Independent National Electoral Commission was striving to frustrate its efforts at reclaiming the mandate of its suspended House of Representatives candidate, Amobi Ogah, after two INEC lawyers clashed at the appellate court in Lagos. This was even as the party appealed to […]
The Federal Government explained that President Buhari did not intervene in the governorship drama in Adamawa State because the matter was within the purview of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, could handle. This was stated on Wednesday The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this why fielding questions […]
The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on Tuesday, October 17, requested an urgent closed-door meeting of the Senate during plenary after the Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume, left the chamber following a ruling that deemed him out of order. Ndume (APC Borno South ), raised a point of order on alleged […]
