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Enough of your phone threats and embarrassments, l will not support Tinubu for President — Sen. Ojudu

    Threats to his life notwithstanding, Sen. Babafemi Ojudu, the Presidential Adviser on Political Matters, on Tuesday stuck to his guns and...

Just in: APC holds national  convention February 26, says Gov. Buni 

  February 26 has been fixed as the date for the All Progressives Congress (APC) national convention, Yobe Gov. and Chairman of the...

2023 Presidential Race: Osun Senator canvasses support for Vice-President Osinbajo

      Influential Senator representing Osun Central Constituency, Sola Adeyeye, has thrown his weight behind Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) as successor to...

NUJ to journalists: Resist being used to settle personal scores, further personal interests

  The National Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has cautioned its members against using their media platforms and civic space...

2023: Endorsement of Tinubu untrue, mischievous, says AfDB President Adesina

  Contrary to some media reports, the President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, has denied claims of his endorsement of...

Tinubu’s unveiled presidential aspiration, a huge joke, says PDP’s Chief Bode George

    Few hours after Asiwaju Bola Tinubu unveiled plans to run the 2023 presidential poll, the opposition, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has...

Breaking: Tinubu storms Aso Rock, declares his 2023 presidential ambition to Buhari

    Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the national leader of the All Progress Congress (APC) on Monday took his presidential aspiration from the realm...

Buhari’s sink or swim warning to APC, wake up call to keep party alive, says Gov. Lalong

      President Muhammadu Buhari’s warning to the All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders ahead of the 2023 polls to resolve their political...

2023: Opposition might take over power if APC’s lingering crisis is unresolved – Buhari

    With storms of protests and wrangling sweeping the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) barely a year to 2023 polls, President Muhammadu...

2023: I will keep my anointed successor to my chest for now, says Buhari

As several chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) jostle for the nation’s number one position, President Muhammadu Buhari may have shocked...

APC-led FG is hellish, mobilise and get the evil out of your lives, PDP Chair, Ayu, tells Nigerians

The national leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) says the APC administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has succeeded in foistering on Nigerians...

Igbo presidency not a right, requires negotiation, conversation with all parts of Nigeria — Abia Gov

  Abia Governor Okezie Ikpeazu says Nigeria’s president of Igbo extraction come 2023 is a national question that requires negotiation, discussion and conversation...

Uche Nwosu, son-in-law of Rochas Okorocha, arrested, not kidnapped by gunmen -Police

The office of the Inspector General of Police Sunday said it arrested Uche Nwosu, the son-in-law of a former governor of Imo State,...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo SAN receives a mission debrief from AFDB Officials on the Industrial Zone led by Toda Atsuko- Acting Vice President, Agriculture, Human and Social Development at the State House, Abuja. 16th April, 2021. Photos; Tolani Alli

2023: Vice-President Osinbajo gets endorsement of Nigeria’s power broker and ex-President

      Ahead of 2023 polls, a groundswell of support is being thrown behind a likely Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo’s presidency as successor...

Dissensions, wrangling in APC will not spell doom for it in the 2023 polls, says Kebbi Gov.

    The current internal wranglings and crises within the All Progressive Congress (APC) will not spell doom for the party in the...

Senators’ weeks of legislative action on 2021 Electoral Act Amendment Bill thrashed by Pres. Buhari as he withholds assent

  After several weeks of speculations and political fireworks by National Assembly members and the APC governors on the 2021 Electoral Act Amendment...