POLITICS

Leaders of Ile-Ife, on Monday, disclosed that its people will not protest against the inauguration of Professor Simeon Bamire as the 12th substantive Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University. Youths and stakeholders in the community had after the announcement of the Vice Chancellor in March protested against the decision on …

THE Presidency on Monday said that no single person should claim the glory of President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in 2014. The presidency’s statement came on the heels of the report credited to the former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed …

INDICATIONS emerged, yesterday, that a top leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, may have made moves to alter the delegates’ list in favour of a northern presidential aspirant ahead of the primary. Vanguard gathered that the alerting of the delegates’ list was aimed at shutting out southern presidential aspirants …

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said that he has no anointed candidate in the presidential primary elections of the All Progressives Congress, APC, slated for June 7, 2022. The President also said he is in agreement with the position of the APC northern governors that power should be shifted to …

Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, on Monday, said he had taken his defeat by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential primary in good faith. Mohammed stated this in Bauchi at the inauguration of a 22-man reconciliation committee of the PDP in the state. The governor …

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said that he has no anointed candidate in the presidential primary elections of the All Progressives Congress, APC, slated for June 7, 2022. The President also said he is in agreement with the position of the APC northern governors that power should be shifted to …

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed the fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) against the Department of States Services (DSS). Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in a judgment, dismissed the suit for lacking in merit and substance. The News Agency …

Candidates for the positions of House of Assembly, House of Representatives, Senate, and Governor on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ebonyi State, Friday, emphasized that they will boycott any conduct of fresh primary elections approved by the National Working Committee, NWC, of the Party in the State. Recall …

One of the frontline presidential aspirants in the ruling All Progressives Congress APC and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has dismissed an online media report that he was considering stepping down for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Osinbajo was reported to have met five APC governors on Thursday night. …

President Muhammadu Buhari departed Madrid on a return journey to Abuja on Friday at the end of a three-day state visit. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president’s aircraft took off from the Torrejon Airbase, Madrid at about 8.20 a.m. local time for Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, …

AFTER last weekend’s primary by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which produced former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the party’s candidate for next year’s presidential election, political leaders in the South have been hurling abuses at the North for betrayal. Two southern groups – the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has released the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, on bail. It would be recalled that Idris was arrested by the anti-graft agency over his involvement in an N174 billion fraud. Idris was released on bail from the custody of the anti-graft …

Political-Economist and former Presidential Aspirant, Professor Pat Utomi, on Monday stepped down for Mr Peter Obi, who went on to emerge as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, unopposed in Asaba, Delta State. Obi, a former governor of Anambra State and 2019 vice presidential candidate of the Peoples …

Stakeholders of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC have reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s request to the party’s governor to allow him to pick his successor ahead of Monday’s Presidential Convention of the party. They wondered if the president is now being influenced by the antics of state governors who …

Following the natural gas fire that has been smouldering at Caritas University Enugu since Sunday, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has vowed to pursue the inclusion of Enugu state as an oil and Gas Producing state, if the party emerges winner of the 2023 governorship election. The gubernatorial candidate …

A team of United States investors due for Nigeria next week has reportedly put off the proposed visit to the country following the abduction of the Prelate of Methodist Church, His Eminence Samuel Uche. Co-chair of Interfaith Peace and Dialogue Forum, and a leading governorship aspirant of the African Democratic …

A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday granted bail to the former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha. Okorocha is facing 17-count charges alongside a politician, Nyerere Anyim, for allegedly diverting funds from the Imo State Government House and local government joint accounts to private companies between 2014 and 2016. …

The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, on Wednesday, said it commended the Director of State Services, DSS, over the arrest of the suspects who were allegedly involved in the kidnapping and beheading of a current lawmaker of Aguata state constituency in Anambra state last month, because …

A former member of the board of trustees (BoT) of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Buba Galadima has decried the approach of President Muhammadu Buhari towards nipping corruption in the bud in his administration. Galadima, while giving his assessment of the fight against corruption in Nigeria, said the arrest of …

ABUJA – Professor Peter Umeadi, Wednesday, clinched the Presidential ticket of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA at a special convention attended by party leaders and members drawn from the six geo-political zones of the country. At a special convention at the Katampe-Abuja national headquarters of the party, a total …

Fourteen members of the Ondo State House of Assembly, who signed the “impeachment notice” of the state Deputy Governor, Agboola Ajayi, were bribed to begin the process, SaharaReporters has gathered. It was gathered on Tuesday that the members were paid a sum of 10 million naira each to ensure Ajayi …

The Senate on Tuesday passed the bill on sexual harassment in tertiary institutions after reading it for the third time. The bill titled: ‘A Bill for an Act to prevent, prohibit and redress Sexual Harassment of students in tertiary educational institutions and for matters concerned therewith, 2019’, was sponsored by …

Former Ondo SSG, Ifedayo Abegunde, has alleged that Governor Rotimi Akeredolu did not win the 2016 election Abegunde opening up on why he left Akeredolu’s administration revealed that the state election was rigged Recall that Abegunde on Monday, July 6, resigned his appointment as Secretary to the Ondo State Government …

The APC is in the post-Adam Oshiomhole era as a new caretaker committee is now in charge following the removal of the national chairman. As it prepares to hold its national convention, the ruling party is shopping for the most worthy candidate that will fill the vacancy. The ruling party …

The federal government has said it has not yet given approval for the resumption of schools across the country. The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 made the clarification on Thursday, July 2, The PTF chairman, Boss Mustapha, said only students in critical classes were permitted to resume for revision …

Governor Nasiru El-Rufai of Kaduna State Governor, Nasiru El-Rufai, on Friday afternoon, March 13, has met with dethroned Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II at Awe in Nasarawa State. Governor El-Rufai who arrived Awe LocalGovernment at about 1:30pm where Sanusi is currently residing. Due to heavy security presence journalists were …

According to the Sahara Reporters who firstly reported on Social media, but later africanews247 seen the video making rounds on the micro-blogging site, Twitter, which was posted by @segalink, the President posed for a picture session with the Kebbi State governor, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu and other dignitaries. However, a man …

The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has allegedly travelled to Awe, Nasarawa State to visit the former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, who was throned over allegation of insubordination. According to Daily Trust, report gathered from security sources has it that Governor El-Rufai left Kaduna on Thursday morning to …

The recently dethroned Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has been moved from Nassarawa State to Lagos State. He arrived Lagos on Thursday amidst heavy security. It will be recalled Sanusi was deposed by the Kano State government on Monday and was banished to Nassarawa State afterwards. Details later…

A report by the committee set up to intervene in the face-off between Governor Abdullahi Ganduje and dethroned Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi Lamido has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari once threatened to declare a state of emergency in Kano State over the lingering crisis. The report revealed the president …