Nollywood actor, Barrister Kenneth Okonkwo has unceremoniously dumped the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and has now pitched tents with rival party the All Progressive Congress (APC)....
Even after commending the Nigerian government and Army for its recent feat against the terrorist group Boko Haram, by capturing its Sambisa Forest stronghold, the opposition...
By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo..Long before the 2015 election, I met a Facebook friend, Emeka Nwokeocha, in New York City. It was at a time when former President...
President Muhammadu Buhari’s planned cabinet reshuffle, envisaged in the new year, may hold a couple of surprises, especially as it concerns his relationship with party leader,...
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has again raised the alarm over alleged conspiracy by his political enemies to bomb his plane. The governor however said that...
The embattled Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Timi Frank, has disagreed with the party’s National Chairman Chief John Odigie-Oyegun over...
Former governor of Kano State Malam Ibrahim Shekarau has said so far, the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari remains a failure because of its inability to...
2016 the year that defeated Buhari By Joseph Edgar… As we bask in the celebration of the seeming defeat of Boko Haram with the capture of...
Following talks of the emergence of a Mega party ahead 2019 general election, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has...
The Presidency has assured that President Muhammadu Buhari will make appointments into all boards by January 2017. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government was yet to fail the country even though things are very difficult in...
By Reuben Abati… “How was your Christmas Day?” “Comme ci, comme ca” “What’s that?” “I am speaking French. You mean you don’t even understand elementary French?” “No, I...
The Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged that Governor Ayodele Fayose may have bribed Pastor Enoch Adeboye to earn his endorsement...
Senators, both from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have reportedly gone into hiding, as the current economic recession...
In a rare display of statesmanship and political sagacity, the Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the recently concluded Ondo State Governorship election, Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, has...
By Dulue Mbachu, Paul Wallace, and Mustapha Muhammad (Bloomberg)… Yusuf Rabiu went door-to-door urging people in the northern Nigerian city of Kano to vote for President Muhammadu...
An online poll conducted by Ripples Nigeria has returned an unsavory verdict on President Muhammadu Buhari’s call for a united Nigeria. Insisting that the country’s unity...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as embarrassing, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris’ decision to investigate alleged threatening phone call by Governor Nyesom...
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi has doused the speculations that he may soon dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a result of the persisting crisis...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) Edo State, of strategizing to burn the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC’s) office in...
In an interview with Saturday Sun in Lagos, a notable Yoruba leader and founder, Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Fredrick Fasehun, described alleged marginalization of the Yoruba in...
The long awaited and widely publicised wedding of Zahra Buhari, the seventh child of President Muhammadu Buhari was staged today in Abuja to the delight of...
The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have also embarked on a protest march to the state’s police headquarters. The party during the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has emphasised its readiness to align with other political parties and any one interested in joining the party in other to...
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) governors of four northern states; Kano, Bauchi, Plateau and Benue of allegedly releasing a...
A former governor of Jigawa State, Dr Sule Lamido, has said it is “funny and contradictory” for the federal government to keep blaming the Peoples Democratic...
CLEEN Foundation, a civil society organisation has accused the Nigerian Police Force and Army of being responsible for the violence that characterised the last Saturday rerun...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), almost 48 hours after elections in some federal and state constituencies rerun election in Rivers State were concluded, has announced...
The governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has described Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN) as an irresponsible defender of the All Progressives Congress (APC’s) “regime of impunity”....
Ahead of 2019 Presidential election, political intrigues and realignment are beginning to shape the political scene, with moves by politicians to form a mega party. Vanguard gathered...
Die-hard critic of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government, Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State says free, fair and credible election is dead in the country under...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Caretaker Committee Chairman, Ahmed Makarfi, has set up a committee to fashion out a plan to remove the ruling party, APC...
The Independent National Electoral Commission today conducted the rescheduled National Assembly and State House rerun and supplementary elections in Rivers State. And as many had expected,...
By Joseph Edgar… What mega party? That is my state of mind this morning, a gross lack of respect for this generation of politicians. Their selfishness...
The rerun elections for Rivers state slated for Saturday already promises to be a bloody affair, as political parties seem to be urging their supporters to...
‘Suspended’ Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has described as shameful, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun’s meeting with Senate President Bukola Saraki....
Minister for Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and a number of governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday stormed Rivers State ahead of...
Apparently in recognition that divided, the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), may be a shadow of itself in 2019 when Nigeria holds another general elections, the...
Ahead of the Saturday rerun election in Rivers, the fight between the state governor, Nyesom Wike and his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi, continues to get messier as...
New Mega Party Targets 16 Governors With an eye firmly fixed on the 2018 governorship polls in Ekiti and Osun States and 2019 general election, the...
The proposed mega party by some aggrieved opposition politicians of major political parties in the country may already have run into a hitch, following the stringent...
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, may have silenced those behind rumours of his purported plans to abandon the party....
“Politics cannot be effectively played or carried out without money. Even in those ancient days when politics started, some form of money was involved. At least,...
The crisis rocking the Kaduna State All Progressives Congress (APC) continues to worsen by the day as thugs allegedly loyal to Senator Shehu Sani, on Sunday...
Leaders of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State have sent a protest letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over alleged irregularities and lopsidedness in recent...
By Reuben Abati… The recent Governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states threw up a number of issues about the politics of succession in Nigeria. In...
The embattled Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, is not giving up on his fight to occupy the...
Plateau State Governor, Solomon Lalong has called on Governor Ayodele Fayose not to contemplate crossing over to the All Progressives Congress (APC). He boasted that APC...
Barely twenty four hours after Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers staged a walkout over the defection of Senator Yele Omogunwa to the ruling All Progressives Congress...
The ruling party of All Progressive Congress (APC) to announce the former minister of youths and sports, Bolaji Abdullahi as its new national publicity Secretary Thursday....