Politics

A former Rivers State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof Zacchaeus Adangor, said Governor Siminalayi Fubara, is not willing to reconciling with his predecessor, Nyesom Wike. Adangor disclosed this in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today  on Thursday. He said, “He (Fubara) is not the person people think he is, he is not […]

Governor Alex Otti of Abia State says it is not on the front burner of his administration to employ new people into the state’s civil service. The governor made this known during the monthly interactive session with the media on Thursday in Umuahia. He said that the issue of employment would arise when the government […]

THE Kebbi State governor, Dr Nasir Idris, has approved the appointment of a former governor of the state, Saidu Dakingari, as this year’s amirul hajj and leader of the state delegation for the hajj exercise in Saudi Arabia. This was contained in a statement signed by the chairman of the state Pilgrims Welfare Board, Alhaji […]

The House of Representatives on Thursday resolved to probe the ongoing N15tn Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project. As such, the House said it would set up an ad-hoc committee, which would investigate the project and submit a report within four weeks. The resolution of the House followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance […]

The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, has asked the Federal Government to address Nigerians’ sufferings caused by the fuel subsidy removal and increased electricity tariffs. Adams disclosed this while speaking during the 2024 edition of the Oke Ibadan festival, organised by the Olokun Festival Foundation, which was held in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the call by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State on the State House of Assembly to institute an impeachment proceeding against the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, is an invitation to anarchy. This is even as the Rivers State chapter of the Association […]

The 2023 House of Representatives candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, for Ikwuano/Umuahia federal constituency seat, Obinna Nwosu has dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abia State. Nwosu made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Umuahia, the state capital. The Abia chieftain said he joined the party to […]

The Labour Party, LP, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP caucus in the House of Representatives, and the Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, have joined the criticisms against Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway as Works Minister, Engr. David Umahi, took on former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, over his opposition to the project. While the LP urged President Bola Tinubu and the […]

The Senator representing Ondo South and a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Jimoh Ibrahim has suggested that certain ministers facing corruption allegations should be removed from the cabinet. Ibrahim, speaking during a Channels TV programme, Politics Today, disclosed this on Wednesday night and urged President Bola Tinubu to dissolve his cabinet and dismiss […]

The Federal High Court in Abuja has restrained the Peoples Democratic Party from removing its acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum. The court, in a ruling delivered on May 3, with court documents made available to newsmen on May 8, restrained the respondents in the interim, from appointing, selecting, or nominating any person to replace  Damagum, […]