Category: Politics

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has reportedly informed President Muhammadu Buhari of his intention to run for President in 2023. DailyTrust reports that the VP told the president of his desire to take over from him at the expiration of his tenure in 2023 to consolidate the achievements they recorded since they took over from the […]

Abdulmajid Danbilki Kwamanda, a renowned critic of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has been remanded in prison by a magistrate court sitting in Nomansland area of Kano metropolis on Tuesday March 8. Kwamanda was arraigned on three count charges bordering on alleged character assassination of the governor, following an alleged claim of Ganduje bribing […]

Itse Sagay, chairman of the presidential advisory committee against corruption (PACAC) has said that some of the proposed amendment to the 1999 constitution are totally irrelevant to the needs of the country at the moment. In an interview on Channels Television on Tuesday March 1, Sagay said the lawmakers should have address the question of […]

Former Lagos state governor, Bola Tinubu, has asked Nigerians to ignore rumors that he is sick. Tinubu who is aspiring to become President in 2023, said this while speaking at the palace of Ataoja of Osogbo, Oba Jimoh Oyetunji, on Friday, February 26. Speaking on insinuations that he was unhealthy thus ineligible to contest for […]

The Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has said that in a matter of hours, President Buhari will sign the amended Electoral Act Amendment Bill. There has been apprehension over when the President will sign the bill into law so that INEC can begin adequate plans for the 2023 elections. […]

Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday February 21, allayed fears surrounding the country’s unity ahead of the 2023 election. In his speech at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)’s Council of the WISE strategic retreat and planning workshop which was held in Lagos, Jonathan expressed hope of the country being united after the […]

Governor Abdillahi Ganduje of Kano State has said that the people of the Northern part of the country have no other presidential aspirant to support than the National leader of the All progressive congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Ganduje made the remark at the inauguration of an office for Northern Youth Professionals for Tinubu, (an organisation […]

The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Samson Ayokunle has said that as a Muslim is about to leave the presidential office in 2023, the Christian body will be mobilizing for a Christian to take over office. Rev. Ayokunle disclosed this on Sunday in Jos during an interview with Journalists after a […]

Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed is a retired federal permanent secretary, and currently, the Director of Publicity and Advocacy of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF). In this interview, he spoke on what the Forum considers as criteria for supporting the next president of Nigeria and why they are yet to endorse any aspirant. There are rumors that […]

Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State has been declared winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship pimary election held on Saturday, February19, 2022, across the 332 wards of the state, AMILOADED reports. The chairman of the primary election committee and the governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbsulRazaq, announced the result in the early hours […]

The National Convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) scheduled for February 26 may not be held on that day after all. THISDAY can authoritatively confirm that the convention will be postponed by two weeks. Efforts to speak to the Chairman, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the party, who is also the Governor of […]

Deji Adeyanju, the convener of Concerned Nigerian, has highlighted why President Muhammadu Buhari may not prefer Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to succeed him in 2023. Adeyanju said Buhari may not support Tinubu’s presidential ambition due to his alleged corrupt nature. Speaking exclusively with DAILY […]

Leaders of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are mounting pressure on the lawmaker representing Ekiti South, Sen. Biodun Olujimi, not to dump the party, The Nation learnt yesterday. It was gathered that the leaders had been working to prevent Olujimi from leaving the PDP. The Nation learnt that high profile meetings of politicians involving […]

Constituents of Igbo-Eze South and Igbo-Eze North local government areas of #Enugu State have assured #Governor Ifeanyi #Ugwuanyi that the February 23, 2022 Local Government Elections in the state will be a walkover for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidates. They maintained that the PDP is assured of a landslide victory in […]

The leadership of the All Progressives Congress in Ila Federal Constituency agreed to work for Oyetola’s re-election come July 16th, 2022. The communique reads in part, “Having monitored, evaluated and reviewed the performances of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola in office, members of the All Progressives Congress, Ila/Boluwaduro/ Ifedayo Federal Constituency hereby noted that the Governor has […]

A married man, identified as Andrew Lee Oscar, was reportedly beaten for allegedly asking the wife of a Delta state politician out on a date on Facebook. This report was shared online by Facebook user, Victor Kelechi Onyendi, who shared the purported chat between the married man and the woman, said to be the wife […]

Those who do not wish the Yoruba well are in the vanguard of those goading our sitting vice president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to throw his hat into the presidential ring. It is not out of love for the genteel law professor. I bet it is simply to draw him out to square up to his […]

Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday, accused governors and senators of the South East zone of failure to end the sit-at-home order because of their political interest warning them not to seek political offices during 2023 general election if they fail to end the exercise. It also urged the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to apologise and ask […]

A former Borno state Governor, Kashim Shettima, has said the North cannot afford to let the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, down because of his role in getting President Muhammadu Buhari into office. Tinubu has since indicated interest in running for president in 2023. Shettima in an interview with Daily […]

Five soldiers died on Tuesday while others were critically injured after a MRAP (mine-resistant, ambush protected vehicle) had an accident in Anambra State. SaharaReporters gathered that the soldiers from the 302 Artillery Regiment, General Support, Onitsha were on their way to Ihiala to join with their colleagues at a military checkpoint after receiving information that […]

A member of the All Progressives Congress, Daniel Bwala, has claimed that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will not be contesting for presidency in 2023 against former Lagos governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Bwala spoke when he appeared as a guest on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Tuesday. Bwala emphatically claimed that “Yemi Osinbajo is not running […]

A former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (Retd.), has said the country is sinking in the hands of autocrats, mediocre, ethnic champions, incompetent and visionless actors. Babangida stated this when he received the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyorcha Ayu, at his Uphill Residence alongside the members of the National […]

Last weekend a longtime friend and I had a rendezvous to share drinks, discuss about business, life and most certainly banter.Topic after topic, we eventually got to discuss the Nigerianpolitical sphere and the 2023 elections – with emphasis on who and who are the most ‘qualified’ to lead this nation of ours. My friend holds […]

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s promised gift of cattle to his Burundian counterpart Evariste Ndayishimiye has finally arrived in Bujumbura, settling a pledge made more than seven months ago. The 50 heifers were delivered on Thursday alongside an assortment of livestock medication that President Kenyatta had promised President Ndayishimiye. The two leaders had met in Kisumu on […]