politics

Twitter: @farooqkperogi Muhammadu Buhari’s “suspension” of Hajia Hadiza Bala Usman as Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) four months after prematurely approving a second term for her (months before the end of her first term) is yet another powerful instantiation of his dangerously degenerative dementia. Think about this: which half-way self-aware …

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, on Friday said he is considering running for President in 2023. He made the comment while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today. “Nigerians, the youth and women, and all Nigerians, including very objective elites are asking me to run for President in 2023,” he said. …

Buhari promises to help Chad stabilise Mr Buhari said Chad should not hesitate to ask for help in areas it would deem necessary. Mahamat Idriss Deby and President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has promised that Nigeria will assist the Republic of Chad to stabilise and return to constitutional rule. …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the latest revelation of $65 million (N31 billion) fraud in the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), in which President Muhammadu Buhari’s son in-law, Gimba Yau Kumo, is reportedly involved. The party charged the ICPC not to succumb to reported pressure from the …

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has backed his colleagues from the southern part of the country, saying Nigeria should embrace restructuring. State governors from the southern part of the country had on Tuesday met in Asaba and issued a communique in which they demanded the immediate restructuring of Nigeria and …

Osun State Government on Friday kept mum as the opposition Peoples Democratic Party berated Governor Adegboyega Oyetola for absenting self from the Southern Nigeria Governors’ Forum meeting held in Delta State earlier in the week. Governors from the southern part of the country had at the meeting discussed issues affecting …

A faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State has said the party secretariat, allegedly acquired with proceeds of corruption, is causing the party bad luck in the state, prompting the opening of a parallel one. Hon Sunday Frank-Oputu, a member of the Hon. Ebierien Fala Itubor-led faction, said …

The Bayelsa State Government has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the state as part of measures to prevent the spread of the surging trait of the new variants of COVID-19. The curfew would last between the hours of 8pm and 6am daily. This was announced in a statement on Friday …

  Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit (Taskforce) has dislodged squatters, removed shanties and evacuated the abandoned vehicles under Iganmu Bridge after expiration of the three-day notice served on the illegal occupiers of the area on Monday. The Chairman of the Task Force, CSP Shola Jejeloye, speaking after the …

Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Obadiah Mailafia, has alleged that assassins allegedly carrying out a presidency plot were out to eliminate him. Obadiah told THE WHISTLER on phone that some powerful individuals in the President Buhari-led Government have sent assassins to kill him. According to …