politics

To enable more eligible Nigerians to register and get their Permanent Voter Card and participate in the 2023 general elections, the House of Representatives has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission to extend the June 30, 2022, deadline for voter registration by 60 days. After the adoption of a motion …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Osun, on Wednesday, said it had 333,179 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in the state ready for collection. Prof. Abdulganiyu Raji, INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Osun, made this known in Osogbo, at a workshop organised for journalists and information officers by the Osun …

The Senate has received a formal request from President Muhammadu Buhari to confirm the nomination of Umar Yahaya as co-chairman of the Governing Council of Unclaimed Funds. The request was contained in a letter dated 3rd June 2022. The letter was read by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, at the …

Senator representing Abia South Senatorial District, Eyinnaya Abaribe, has officially left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). This is contained in a letter read by the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, during Wednesday’s plenary. Until his resignation, Abaribe was the Minority Leader in the …

The Senate Chief Whip, Orji Uzor Kalu, says the pragmatic and logical thing for  the All Progressives Congress, APC, to do to retain the presidency in 2023 is to field a Muslim-Muslim ticket in 2023. Kalu made his position known while addressing newsmen at the National Assembly on Tuesday. Kalu …

The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has finally broken silence on the impasse that has plagued his search for running mate. There are speculation that the former Lagos governor is mulling a Muslim as his running mate in his bid to endear himself to the vote-rich northwest …

The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, in the 2023 general elections, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called on electorates in Ekiti State to vote for APC in exchange for money. Tinubu stated this on Tuesday during a political rally in Ekiti State to campaign for the APC governorship candidate, …

Dumebi Kachikwu, presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), says Kingsley Moghalu, former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has smeared his (Kachikwu) reputation and that of the party. Speaking on Tuesday during an interview with Channels Television, Kachikwu said Moghalu induced party stakeholders financially during …

Eight northern Christian groups led by the Jukun Development Association of Nigeria have asked the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu to pick a northern Christian as his running mate. According to the group, there are a lot of qualified northern Christians who could be Tinubu’s running mate …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said the Ekiti governorship election slated for Saturday, will be historic, being the first poll to be conducted under the new Electoral Act. The Commission disclosed that in the preparation for the election, it revised its training manual to reflect the provisions of …