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Nigeria’s embattled Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, quietly returned to the country on Wednesday, sources in the apex bank and the presidency have told NEWSEXTRA24. Mr Emefiele has been out of the country for several weeks amidst fears he would be arrested by operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said it will remove the former Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Dr. Doyin Okupe, from its watchlist following his arrest by the Department of State Security Service at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Thursday. An impeccable source …

Ahead of the February 25 presidential election, the Labour Party has raised alarm over the slow distribution of Permanent Voter Cards by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The party is insisting that the electoral body must immediately and speedily deliver PVCs to Nigerians to enable them to vote in the …

Bola Tinubu, the APC candidate in the February 25 presidential election, has told Igbos in Enugu that when they vote for him, he will allow them to have a share in the “national cake,” a euphemism for the national coffer. Mr Tinubu urged Enugu residents and Igbos, in general, to …

President of the Senate, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan has lambasted the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for stopping the statutory allocations of local governments in the insurgency-affected states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa for 18 months during the party’s reign. Lawan who spoke at the Presidential Campaign Rally of the ruling APC …

The face-off between the five governors of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) also known as G-5, led by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and the Presidential candidate of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, over the refusal of its national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, to step down has polarised members of PDP …

27,300 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Katsina State on Tuesday defected to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the Sandamu Local Government Area of the state. The PDP governorship candidate, Senator Yakubu Lado, who stormed the area as part of his campaign tour of the state, decried the …

It began in Kaduna State, then moved to Minna, then to Kano, then to Adamawa, and finally to Yobe. The Jagaban fever was palpable as the APC held presidential rallies in several Northern states.   One undeniable fact about all of these rallies is the massive turnout of residents in …

Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, the factional National Publicity Secretary of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Alpha Mohammed, has disclosed that the party would welcome an alliance with the All Progressives Congress (APC).   POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Mohammed said the SDP had done its assessment and discovered that …

A chieftain of the Labour Party, Dayo Ekong, has been named the new chairperson of the party’s Lagos State chapter.   The outgoing chairman, Kayode Salako, who handed over to Ekong on Tuesday, assumed the position of Special Adviser on Lagos Affairs and Liaison operations to the National Chairman of …