Following Friday’s Supreme Court judgement which invalidated the election of all candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC in Zamfara state, the National Working Committee of the party is currently locked in an emergency closed door meeting to discuss the way forward. The meeting which began around 4 pmContinue Reading
Supreme Court on Friday nullified All Progressives Congress (APC), participation in 2019 elections and declares party with second highest votes as winner in Zamfara. The Apex court heard two election appeals seeking to ascertain authentic candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), candidates in Zamfara in the last general elections. News AgencyContinue Reading
A tearful Theresa May today bowed to the inevitable and quit as Prime Minister. Her voice breaking with emotion, she said: “I will shortly leave the job that it has been the honour of my life to hold. “The second female prime minister, but certainly not the last. I do so withContinue Reading
The National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to ignore the petition written by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) to stop the implementation of guidelines set by the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) on local government funds. Ibrahim Khaleel, national president of NULGE, communicated theContinue Reading
Lawmakers of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and their Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterparts in the House of Representatives are working to forge an understanding before the inauguration of the 9th National Assembly. This was made known by the Deputy Minority Leader and spokesman of the PDP caucus inContinue Reading
The Chairman Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has denied a report accusing some foreign airlines of running drug cartels in the country. Dabiri- Erewa said in a statement through her Media Aide, Mr Abdur-Rahman Balogun on Thursday in Abuja that the report was not true. She saidContinue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari has confirmed the Acting Inspector General of Police, Adamu Mohammed as the new Inspector General of police. The confirmation was announced at the police council meeting presided over by the president. Mr. Mohammed was appointed in the acting capacity in January. 15 2019, when he took overContinue Reading
Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation, has reacted to remark by the Minister of Transportation thanking President Muhammadu Buhari for not converting him to Islam. Amaechi had stated this during a valedictory session Buhari had with his Ministers at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Reacting, Fani-Kayode described Amaechi as “an accursed slave”,Continue Reading
The President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, on Wednesday withdrew as a member of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal. This followed allegations of likelihood of bias levelled against her by the Peoples Democratic Party, and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Altthough, the five-man panel of theContinue Reading
Senator Ademola Adeleke on Wednesday sued the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, for his detention by the police in Abuja on May 6. The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the September 2018 Osun State governorship election is through his lawyer, Kanmi Ajibola, seeking the enforcement of his fundamentalContinue Reading
