As the campaigns for Nigeria’s general elections hot up, a group of foreign-based entrepreneurs have thrown their full weight behind the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi. Under the aegis of Entrepreneurs for Peter Obi, (EFPO) the group said that it is mobilising Nigerian entrepreneurs from across Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas to support Obi. California-based …

The leadership of the Senate on Tuesday announced that the progress on constitutional review is being stalled by majority of the Houses of Assembly across the country in endorsing the proposed amendments transmitted to them, as required by the 1999 Constitution. The governors of the dissenting states are allegedly pulling the strings on account of their disagreement with certain constitutional …

Former presidential spokesman, Olorogun Ima Niboro has said that the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has experience and capacity to govern the country. Interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday night, Niboro insisted that the former Lagos State Governor is the most competent among other presidential candidates. Niboro, who doubles as Director, Communications …

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike may have set a new precedent in the nation’s political culture with his open endorsement of an opposition Governor in an electoral contest in which his political party has a candidate. Wike, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governor, on Tuesday openly pitched his tent with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, endorsing his Lagos State counterpart for a …

As the campaign for the 2023 elections gathers momentum, a former presidential aspirant of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has urged politicians and their parties to desist from ethnic and religious tantrums capable of widening the existing gulfs and cleavages among the citizens and voters. In a statement by his media office on Tuesday, Olawepo-Hashim maintained that …

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi said on Monday in Kaduna that he would rescue Nigeria from being “failed state” if he wins the 2023 election. He described a “failed state” as one that is no longer in control of the economy and security, and that he was determined to change the slide as president. The former …

The inauguration of Mr Biodun Oyebanji as the fifth executive governor of Ekiti State on Sunday turned out to be a parade of top-notch political bigwigs in Nigeria. The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the governors of Kebbi, Jigawa, Niger, Plateau, Lagos, Edo, Ogun and Ondo States, as well as APC national …

At exactly 12:53 pm on Sunday, the change of leadership in Ekiti State was finally completed with Mr Abiodun Ayobami Oyebanji taking over from Dr Kayode Fayemi whose four-year tenure ended at midnight on Saturday. Fayemi had served a first term from 2010 to 2014 and was Minister of Solid Mineral Development in the intervening period. Earlier, 64-year-old Chief (Mrs) …

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has said that the sins of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are so grievous that if they are disclosed his children would disown him. “If people know what we know, if we release what we have, Ayu’s children will go to him and say we are no longer your children”, Wike …

A Federal High court in Yola has nullified the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary that produced Senator Aishatu Binani as the party’s governorship candidate for Adamawa State. Binani is the only governorship candidate of any major political party in the North in the next year’s elections. The court on Friday also declared that there will be no candidate for the …