Distinguished professionals, scholars, diplomats and civil society personalities will converge in Abuja on Thursday, 17th November for a seminar on the integrity of elections in Nigeria. The event will be the 2022 edition of the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship annual seminar. United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Leonard will give the keynote address at the hybrid event that will hold at …

All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu returned to his political base for the first time after winning the party’s fiercely contested presidential primary. Tinubu was at Lagos APC secretariat on Acme Road in Ogba on Wednesday for the party’s caucus meeting, shelving other engagements to reunite with his political family. Activities in the area were brought …

As 2023 beckons and the presidential candidates rev up their hustings across the country’s political landscape, the metamorphosis of many of the finest and best of the country’s journalism and legal professions connected with the campaigns beggars belief! Men who have toiled day and night for decades to make a name for themselves while also elevating their profession and its …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it is yet to print the Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) of Nigerians who participated in the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise from 15th January to 31st July, this year. INEC National Commissioner, Barrister Festus Okoye said on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Wednesday: “If you are a registered voter, in other …

Former Governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Mimiko has distanced himself from membership of the 2023 presidential campaign council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), reaffirming his position that the party must embrace regional equity. Mimiko has aligned with the group, led by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, which has been battling the PDP for having both its National Chairman, …

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi has spoken about how he plans to fix the flooding crisis ravaging the country, if elected president in 2023. Obi paid solidary visits to flood victims in Benue and Bayelsa States over the weekend, after he had urged political parties to suspend campaigns for the 2023 general elections. He advocated …

Nigeria, which ranks 181 out of 193 on the Gender Equality Index for countries with low women representation in governance, is going further down the ladder in terms of the number of female candidates in next year’s general elections. While female representation is only 7.3 percent (8 of 109) in the Senate and 3.6 percent (13 of 360) in the …

Youths in Lagos State staged a peaceful rally on Saturday to show support for All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the party’s governorship candidate in the state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu ahead of the 2023 elections. The youths were seen with various APC paraphernalia including brooms and flags as they marched from Maryland on Mobolaji Bank Anthony …

We are now in the home run, or shall we use the more familiar “last leg” of the race to Aso Villa, specifically for the front runners – Atiku Abubakar, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Peter Obi (in order of their declared ages). If we are not paying the cliched lip service to conducting the ideological and intellectual inspections of the …

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 …