politics

Northern elders have disowned Professor Ango Abdullahi, over his recent statement that many people from the Northern part of the country were killed in the South East during the #EndSARS protests. The elders, who strongly condemned the statement, asked Nigerians to ignore it, stating that it was a personal opinion …

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were jointly named Time magazine’s 2020 “Person of the Year” on Thursday, chosen from a list of finalists that included the man Biden vanquished at the polls – President Donald Trump. The Democratic former vice president and …

A major crisis is brewing in the Edo state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) following Governor Godwin Obaseki’s alleged push for the dissolution of the party’s executive. Blueprint gathered that the governor and persons who defected with him to the PDP feared that allowing the party structure as …

Jimi Agbaje, former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday said President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to honour the summon by the National Assembly on the issue of insecurity in the country is a total disregard for the people of Nigeria. The President, who had earlier given his …

The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, declared yesterday that former president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, can contest for the presidential ticket of the party pending the outcome of the zoning arrangement of the party ahead of the 2023 presidential election. He, however, explained that the …

‘Our countries share historic ties’ – Buhari congratulates Ghanaian president on reelection President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana on his electoral victory. Akufo-Addo, who ran under the platform of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), polled 6,730,430 votes to defeat his main challenger — former President John …

The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, passed through First Reading a bill which seeks to increase the number of Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria from 21 to 41. The bill which seeks to alter the 1999 Constitution (as amended), Cap. C23, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, …

*2023 Presidency: Rotation Is Divisive- Olawepo-Hashim* A Presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has said that rotation of the presidency in 2023 would be counter-productive to the polity. In a statement he issued on Tuesday, the businessman who said rotation will not foster national unity and development, …

Amid contentions on the best workable constitution that can practically address the plethora of challenges being faced by the nation, leaders across the country have rejected calls for the convening of a fresh constitutional conference, noting that it would be a waste of time. The leaders from the northern and …

THE House of Representatives is proposing compelling a new President or governor to constitute his cabinet within 30 days after inauguration or risk impeachment by the National Assembly or state House of Assembly. The Transition and Assumption of Office Bill, 2020, sponsored by Mr Kpam Sokpo, in which the proposal …