Politics

Chairman, Senate Committee on Navy, Senator Isa Hamma Misau and his counterpart in the  Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim, have insisted that they would sponsor a motion on the floor urging the  Federal Government to immediately set up a Judicial Commission of Inquiry to …

The Minority leader of the Gombe State House of Assembly, Honourable Ahmed Usman Haruna (APC) has formally declared his defection to the PDP. Honourable Ahmed made the declaration during the House plenary where he said the decision followed the injustice that characterized the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the State. …

The Bayelsa State Government on Wednesday said it would work with security agencies to ensure that the state remains safe and peaceful throughout the electioneering period in the 2019 general elections.    The government therefore appealed to all aspirants not to heat up the polity with unnecessary political activities but …

By Hussaina Yakubu  Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, says he will join the presidential race if prevailed upon by Nigerians to do so. Al-Mustapha gave the indication Wednesday in Kaduna in an interview shortly after a meeting with United Christian Leaders Eagle …

THE wind of defections blowing across the country has once again berthed in Edo State, the home state of the National chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, as some notable members of the ruling APC  have dumped the party for  the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The latest …

By Ismaila Chafe  The Presidency has described as fiction parading as news the Tuesday’s Daily Independent Newspaper report with the headline; ‘Pressure mounts on Buhari not to seek re-election.’ Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, condemned the publication, …

By Obinna Unaeze  Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, former Sokoto governor, who is aspiring for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ticket to contest the 2019 elections, says he will not leave the party if he loses in the primary election. “I will remain in the PDP even I do not emerge its …

By Cecilia Ijuo  The National Assembly is unlikely to reconvene on Tuesday to consider the N243 billion virement for the 2019 General Elections. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that the National Assembly is unlikely to reconvene because as  at the time of filing this report, there has been no …

Chairman, Senate Committee on Navy, Senator Isa Hamma Misau, has stated that the Presidency should be ashamed that it is pushing the conspiracy script that top officials of the nation’s security apparatus are working for the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki. Reacting to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission …

The Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Province (Anglican Communion), Dr. Emmanuel Chukwuma on Saturday told the Acting President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo that there is no vacancy in Enugu State Government House. The outspoken Archbishop said the people of Enugu State are at home and happy with the good works …

The chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmud Yakubu, should no longer be trusted by Nigerians to conduct the 2019 general election because “he has become a very dangerous threat to our democracy”, a legal practitioner and civil rights activist, Ugochukwu Osuagwu, has warned.   He issued the warning on Saturday in …

Senate President, Dr, Abubakar Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu have raised the alarm that the Federal Government has commenced the execution of a plot to implicate them and their colleagues in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the last Tuesday invasion of the premises of the National Assembly …

Members  of the Kwankwansiyya movement within the Reformed All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo state led by its state chairman, Chief John Osamede Adun, the Ayobahan of Benin and Hon Harrison Omagbon, the state Coordinator have formally dumped the APC. The development is coming amidst speculations that the National chairman …

The Senator representing Bauchi Central and chairman, Senate Committee on Navy, Isah Hamma Misau, has debunked the claim made in Uyo Wednesday by former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu that the National Assembly was planning to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari. Misau, in a statement, urged Nigerians to disregard …

BY ABDULLAHI ISAH,  MAIDUGURI A group called Borno Youths and Students Discussion Forum (BYSDF) has urged the Senator representing Southern Borno,, Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume, to go and rest and has assured that it would throw its weight behind  Alhaji Sanda Garba to represent Borno South Senatorial  district at the …

  turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 Our people have a saying, to wit: Someone who chanced on a lost item says he will rather die than part with it; what does he want the person who lost the item in the first instance to do? This saying aptly describes the cry-baby …

By EricJames Ochigbo  Chairman of the National Assembly and President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, says the parliament is ready to reconvene if there are pressing national issues requiring the legislature’s attention. Saraki said this while fielding questions from journalists at a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday. There …

Former Senate minority Leader, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, on Wednesday pledged to take the people of Akwa Ibom state and the South South to the centre for meaningful visibility. The 55-year-old former governor of Akwa Ibom formally defected from  the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to All Progressives Congress (APC) at …

Following the on-going invasion of the National Assembly complex by men of the Department of State Services (DSS) in which legislators and members of staff, including the Clerk of the National Assembly, Alhaji Mohammed Sani Omolori, who is the administrative head of the Federal legislature, were harassed and prevented from …

The Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry Enugu Nigeria (AMEN), Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka on Sunday declared that there is no vacancy in the Enugu State Government House in 2019, stressing that Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has done excellently well in office and deserves a second term. Fr. Mbaka poured encomiums on …

BY ABDULLAHI ISAH, MAIDUGURI The Minister for Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said that agitation of rotation of power by the people of southern Borno is not only constitutional but apt and timely and will ensure justice and inclusiveness and that democracy all over the world promotes justice and fairness. …

BY ABDULLAHI ISAH, MAIDUGURI A group  called Southern Borno Movement for Rotation of Power, SBMRP,  has called for rotation of power in Borno come 2019 governorship election in the state. The Chairman, SBMRP,  Engineer  Ibrahim Usman  at a press briefing held at Barwee Hotels Maiduguri on Friday  said  that for …

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) in the July 14 election in Ekiti, Prof. Kolapo Olusola-Eleka late on Friday filed a 700-page petition before the Election Tribunal sitting in Ado Ekiti. The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that the candidate along with his running mate, Mr. …

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has assured the Senate President Dr Bukola Saraki and others who defected to the party recently that history will be kind to them for identifying with the people. Prince Secondus who spoke at the 81st National Executive Committee …

Danjuma James, Sokoto The Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum, Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko,  says Sokoto State remains entirely an All Progressives Congress (APC), State, which is solidly behind President Muhammadu Buhari. Reacting to Wednesday’s defection of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP), alongside …