Politics

Dr. Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, and presidential hopeful, has assured that he will make noticeable impact within two years if elected president in 2023.   This is even as the minister has thus far failed to resolve the lingering strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). wants a shot at the Presidency ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has fixed May 30/31 as the proposed date for its presidential primary election. It also proposed May 23 for the governorship primary. The party, in a letter, addressed to Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), dated April 6, notified the election body of its dates and schedule of its primaries for ...

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and presidential aspirant has said Nigeria needs a courageous leader to effect drastic changes that will bring revenue and build the nation. He described himself as that man Nigeria needs to take charge of the wheel of progress. Tinubu spoke at one-day parley between current Speakers and Deputy Speakers ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has revealed that a 62-year-old man, Kola Adewusi, a GCE holder is the running mate for the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ademola Adeleke. Adeleke, a 61-year-old man, was facing issues about his result until 2021 when he reportedly bagged a degree in criminal justice at a College in the ...

Images of branded campaign vehicles of Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), have surfaced online.   Emefiele, who is alleged to be interested in running for president under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023, has continued to attract attention with many support groups urging him to declare. Though the CBN governor has ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has justified the emergence of former key members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as officials of the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), stressing that they are repented sinners.   It had been reported that Abdullahi Adamu and Iyiola Omisore, the new national chairman and national secretary of the APC respectively, were former ...

Abdullahi Adamu, senator representing Nasarawa west, has been elected as the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).   Muhammadu Badaru, governor of Jigawa, coordinated the exercise. Using the voice vote system, the APC delegates at the cvention approved Adamu as the new national chairman of the party.   The vote was taken at a few minutes past 11pm ...

Mr. Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra state, on Thursday, declared his intention to contest for president in the 2023 general elections.   Obi, a member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP, disclosed his intention to join the race when he met with Anambra Traditional rulers.   The declaration comes after months of persuasions by mostly young Nigerians who ...

Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have said they will support whoever President Muhammadu Buhari supports at the forthcoming national convention of the party slated for Saturday, March 26.   The governors were led to the meeting by the chairman of the APC Caretaker/ Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) and Yobe State governor, Mai Mala ...

Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu will this weekend kick-off his declaration for a second term at the national convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja. A prominent member of the Governors Advisory Council (GAC) who is also one of the apex leaders of APC in Lagos state, made it known on Sunday that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former ...