Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the general elections, the Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Mr Paul Odama  has cautioned various political parties in the state not to heat up the polity with hate speeches, inciting statements and personal attacks, assuring that the command would provide a level playing ground for all of them. He sternly warned the political parties …

Efforts by the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to resolve the issues between the party leadership and the group of Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike have not yielded desired result. The meeting on ended inconclusively. Wike and his supporters, among whom are Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and his Benue State counterpart, are demanding …

The Electoral Hub has advocated that the campaign for the 2023 elections, which commenced with those for the national elections last Wednesday, should be issue-focused, inclusive and policy based. The organisation, which is committed to strengthening electoral governance and accountability in Nigeria, is an affiliate of the Initiative for Research, Innovation and Advocacy in Development (IRIAD). It essentially aims at …

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu joined a women support walk for his second term bid and the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on Monday. Accompanied by his deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, Sanwo-Olu led the walk, held along selected areas of Lagos metropolis. In the Governor’s team were his wife, Ibijoke and that of the Deputy Governor, Oluremi. …

A leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Chief Ladi Adebutu on Monday advised the Yoruba not to be selfish but to support the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the 2023 general elections. Adebutu, who was the factional governorship candidate of the party in the state until a Federal High Court in Abeokuta last week …

Calabar, the capital of Cross Rivers State, witnessed what the organisers of the Obidient movement supporting Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi said was “a two-million-man march”. Similar solidary marches had held in Abuja, Lagos, Jos, Zaria, Benin and some other cities across the country as the momentum gathers for next February’s presidential election. In Calabar, a House of Representatives …

In several parts of the country, supporters of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi trooped out in large numbers to demonstrate their solidary for his candidacy in next year’s election. In Lagos, Benin City, Asaba, Zaria and other cities, they turned the Independence Day celebration into a show of strength for their candidate. In Lagos, they …

Even as Senate President Ahmad Lawan accepted his fate in the Yobe North senatorial ticket controversy, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in his home state has vowed to appeal last Wednesday’s judgment affirming Alhaji Bashir Machina as the party’s candidate for the senatorial district. The Federal High Court in Damaturu declared Machina as the authentic APC candidate for the Yobe North …

Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed Thursday for hearing in a suit seeking to nullify the elections of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) respectively. The former Minister of State for Education, Barrister Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, who resigned from the …

Nigeria might not have been 62 years old today as an independent nation if the likes of Adunni Oluwole had their way. Oluwole was a unitarist, human rights advocate and reputed anti-corruption activist. But she died in 1957, three years before the British colonialists allowed Nigeria to rule itself. She was 52. Petite and fragile, Oluwole was one of Nigeria’s …