The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos State has said it is working with park managers in the state for smooth logistics during this year’s general elections, and not with the former chairman of the defunct National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in the state, Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo. The commission was reacting to …

The Lagos State Chapter of All Progressives Congress has suspended its campaign for the general elections scheduled for 25 February and 11 March.  In a statement on Tuesday,  the state chairman of the party, Hon. Cornelius Ojelabi said the decision was reached as a result of the scarcity of fuel and the pain occasioned by the Naira redesign.  He empathised …

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday restrained the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from suspending or expelling the Governor of Rivers, Nyesom Wike, from the party. Justice James Omotosho made the order following an ex-parte motion filed by Wike against the PDP and its top officials. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Wike, in the motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/139/2023, …

The Taraba State caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the House of Representatives has dissociated itself from the removal of the state party’s chairman, Hon. Ibrahim El-Sudi, saying the decision by a faction of the State Working Committee (SEC) will not stand. Addressing a press conference on Monday in Abuja, the spokesman of the caucus, Hon. Usman Shidi …

A socio-cultural group, the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) has thrown its weight behind the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The Council said it decided after a special executive session over the weekend. In a statement signed by its Secretary-General, Chief Oladipo Oyewole, the Council said it was convinced that Tinubu’s track record …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that warehoused Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) can no longer be used during elections as every voter must be authenticated with the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS). At the political parties’ polling agent training workshop and Training of Trainers (TOT) in Abuja on Monday, the Director-General of The Electoral Institute (TEI), Dr Sa’ad …

The presidential campaign rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Katsina State was on Monday scaled down to a prayer session following a recent murder of over 40 vigilantes by bandits in Bakori Local Government Area. Apart from reducing the number of participants at the rally, which had President Muhammadu Buhari in attendance, the event was conducted in a …

Labour Party has called on the relevant federal agencies to tighten the nation’s borders and fish out illegal immigrants from neighbouring countries in order to ensure a free and fair presidential election on 25 February. A Labour Party spokeperson, Barrister Osa Director told newsmen that it came to the party as a rude shock and embarrassment to witness the Nigerian …

The Supreme Court has affirmed Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan as the All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial candidate for Yobe North. In a majority judgment delivered on Monday, the apex court allowed the appeal filed by the APC against Bashir Machina’s candidature. Delivering the judgment, three out of a five-member panel agreed with the position of the APC that the …

The spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Barrister Festus Keyamo; and a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, traded words on Sunday over the endorsement of the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, by the President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari, on his Twitter handle, described Tinubu as a Nigerian who would give …