politics

THE Ekiti State chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Paul Omotosho has been kidnapped. It was gathered that Omotosho was kidnapped along the Agbado-Imesi-Ekiti road in Gbonyin Local Government Area of the state, Saturday evening. A close source, who confirmed the development to DAILY POST, stated that Omotosho, who …

KWARA State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has dismissed rumoured plan to suspend the former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki by the State Working Committee, SWC, of the party. A communique issued after the SWC meeting in Ilorin, the state capital, urged party members and supporters to be …

FORMER member of the House of Representatives and the Federal Commissioner at the Code of Conduct Bureau, Hon Ehiozuwa Agbonayinma has begun meeting critical stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress in Edo State to woo them to support his bid to win the party’s ticket for next year’s governorship election. …

For observers of political events, the governorship election in Bayelsa State is not just about ambition but also that of political survival and dominance of the riverine state. Bayelsa is an unusual state. It is 100 per cent riverine, sits squarely on the delta, and is one of the few …

President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of a presidential committee on fiscal policy and tax reforms. The President named Taiwo Oyedele, Fiscal policy partner and Africa tax leader at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), as the chairman of the committee. Reported gathered that President Tinubu signed four executive orders, including the suspension …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has filed a six-count charge against the suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) deployed to Adamawa State, Barr. Hudu Yunusa Ari, at the state High Court sitting in Yola. Reports emerged that Ari found himself at the centre of a controversy after the supplementary election …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has filed a six-count charge against the suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) deployed to Adamawa State, Barr. Hudu Yunusa Ari, at the Adamawa State High Court sitting in Yola, the State capital. LEADERSHIP reports that Ari was enmeshed in a controversy after the supplementary …

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu on Sunday left Lagos where he has been on Sallah holidays for Abuja. Before departing the presidential wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Tinubu in the company of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu took the salute Nigeria Army parade. During his five days stay in Lagos, the president paid …

THE governorship candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, in Imo State, Uche Ben Odunzeh at the weekend vowed to unseat the incumbent governor, Hope Uzodinma in the forthcoming November 11th, governorship election. Odunzeh, however, challenged Governor Uzodinma and other contestants in various political parties participating in the November …

THE Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has expressed regret that he contested the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential primary election against President Bola Tinubu. Akpabio said he would not have contested the primary election against Tinubu if he knew the plans the president had for Nigeria. Speaking in Lagos State, Akpabio …