Politics

By Bolaji Buhari  An elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, on Wednesday said that the solution to the prevailing security challenges in the country lay only in restructuring. Clark, a former Minister of Information, gave the recommendation in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). He said the …

By Yemi Adeleye  Mr Bola Babarinde, an All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant in Oyo State, has backed the adoption of direct primary to elect party’s flag bearers for 2019 elections. Babarinde, currently the Chairman, APC South Africa, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Wednesday that …

Lawyer and activist, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently assent to the 2018 Electoral Bill, to prevent it from running foul of Article 2 (1) of the Economic Community of West African States Protocol A/SP1/12/01 on Democracy and Good Governance. Falana, who noted that …

By Omuboye Sukubo omubosukubo@gmail.com/08032298338 The All Progressives Congress (APC), says it has facts on Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers and the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) move to scuttle the Port Harcourt Constituency 3 bye-election. Mr Ojukaye Flag-Amachree, State Chairman of APC in Rivers also  alleged that Wike offered him N200 …

I have always restrained from joining issues in the media with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and this is based on my respect for him. However, I will not allow him to create a wrong, false and mischievous impression about the reasons for my decision to exit the All Progressives Congress …

By Muhammad Nasir Bello In what appears like a political earthquake,  252 Special Advisers and Special Assistants appointed by Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state have resigned  their appointments. And they have returned to the All Progressives Congress, APC, instead of working under a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, government. Alhaji …

By Lucy Osuizigbo   All Progressives Congress, APC, National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Sunday said that defectors who left the party wanted automatic tickets and sharing of the national wealth which the governing APC could not guarantee. Tinubu said this in a statement he entitled ‘They Go Away Because We …

By John Amieyefori  The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended  the by-election for the Port Harcourt Constituency lll State Assembly  seat held Aug. 18 in the State. Mr Obo Effanga, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Rivers, who announced the suspension in a terse statement on Saturday night, cited widespread …

  turnpot@gmail.com  0705 263 1058 May you live in interesting times! It is apt to remember this payer of the late Dr. Tai Solarin today; for these, indeed, are interesting times in our much-abused country Nigeria.  And not only are the times interesting, they are equally troubling. The more you …

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 …