Former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been formally declared the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in next year’s election. The National Leader of the party pulled 1,271 votes to defeat a field of 13 other aspirants, who eventually contested in the primary election. He will now go ahead to challenge the candidate of …

Governors of northern states controlled by the All Progressives Congress have voted in favour of the south producing the party’s 2023 presidential candidate. The Governors and political leaders from the northern states said that “after eight years in office of President Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the APC for the 2023 elections should be one of our teeming members …

The Head of the Federal Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (FCIID), Joseph Egbunike is dead. A Deputy Inspector-General of Police, sources said Egbunike slumped in his office in Abuja on Tuesday night. He is the head of the Special Investigation Panel looking into the alleged money laundering case involving the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari. The FCIID is …

The Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo (well known as Sunday Ighoho), has been released by the Government of Republic of Benin. In a statement on Monday, the umbrella body of Yoruba self-determination groups, Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide said the activist was released to its leader, Prof. Banji Akintoye and his deputy. Prof. Wale Adeniran. The statement, issued by  Ilana Omo …

President Buhari left Abuja on Sunday for London on a routine medical trip. He was scheduled to travel from Nairobi last week to London but returned to Abuja last Friday. Last month, the Presidential Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina had said Buhari would visit his doctor in London for ‘routine medical checks that will last for …

Three hundred and six more Nigerians affected by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war arrived in the country from Budapest, Hungary on Sunday morning. This makes it the fourth batch of evacuees to return home since the rescue operation began on Friday. And the total figure of Nigerian safety back home has risen to 1,081. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that …

The Senate has commenced a closed door deliberation on President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill. Senate President Ahmad Lawal another decision at the commencement of plenary at 10:42 am this Tuesday. Having passed the bill on 19th November, the constitutional 30-day period for the President to sign the bill upon receiving it from the federal parliament lapsed …