Politics

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Abuja lashed out at the 16 years rule of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, regretting that the previous governments did not save for the “rainy day”. Buhari spoke while receiving the President of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), Dr. Bernard O. Aliyu at …

The Federal Government has said it is keenly aware of the difficulties that Nigerians are currently facing over the lingering fuel scarcity and poor power supply, and that it is working round the clock to provide the relief for the citizenry. ”As a government that was propelled into office by …

Elder statesman and founder of the defunct Nigeria Advanced Party (NAP) Dr. Tunji Braithwaite is dead. The 82-year-old lawyer reportedly died Monday morning after a brief illness at St. Nicholas Hospital in Lagos. More details soon.

  As the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola TInubu marks his 64th birthday, tomorrow, Tuesday, March 29, 2016, President Muhammadu Buhari has praised his doggedness, forthrightness, generosity and diligence. In his birthday message to Tinubu, President Buhari remarked that Tinubu’s rising political profile since …

  The Senate has passed the 2016 budget, with an unprecedented reduction in the budget’s total. President Muhammadu Buhari presented a N6.08 trillion proposal in December 2015. The Senate passed N6,060,677,358,227 trillion budget after considering its conference report on the budget. It was the first time since 1999 that the …

The Federal Government, Tuesday, vowed to punish accordingly the perpetrators of violence in the bye-election conducted last weekend in Rivers state. The Minister of Youth and Sports, Bar. Solomon Dalung, who blamed the violence on politicians, who refused to play the game according to the rules, described the crisis as …

By Pius Adesanmi You must excuse the obscenity, “iyalaya anybody”, in my title. When you invite a well-known scholar of African popular cultures to address such a distinguished assembly of actors and professionals in Nigeria’s corporate and entrepreneurial world, you must be prepared to be illuminated by the philosophical nuggets …

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu in an exclusive  interview granted to IVOTES’ Editorial Board Chairman ,Edmund Obilo , has declared that he is not the president’s man. He spoke on a range of issues like the recent inconclusive elections in Kogi and Bayelsa …

The Trade Union Congress, Rivers State Chapter has called for total transparency in the re-run legislative elections coming up tomorrow in the state. TUC in a release signed by the Chairman, Comrade  Hyginus Chika Onuegbu, eligible voters were urged to come out with their voters’ card and vote for candidates …

National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, has expressed confidence that the party would regain its lost glory. Sheriff  said the strength of the party would be restored after members would have resolved their differences. Sheriff said this on Wednesday in Akure, Ondo state, when he …