The reasons the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 25th February election, Peter Obi cried out the other day, that he was under intense pressure to leave the country, are becoming clearer. He is really in huge stress and in a battle of his life. You will only understand the magnitude of odds stacked against him to appreciate what he …

The Director of the Diaspora Directorate of the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Prince Ade Omole, has returned N2.4 million back into the PCC purse. The money was the balance of the initial N10 million campaign fund disbursed to the diaspora team in the build-up to the 2023 presidential election. Omole, who disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja, …

You cross the line with the OBIdients, as the supporters of Peter Obi, the Labour Party candidate in the 25th February presidential election call themselves, if you query the credentials of their Al Capone or disagree with their narrative of the presidential election, especially its outcome. If you say Obi did not win or disagree with the riotous way they …

The Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi has asked the ‘OBIdient Family’, which he leads, to see the incessant attacks on them as a huge sacrifice needed to rescue and build a new Nigeria that is possible. Obi, in a series of tweets, on Easter Monday, said he identified with his supporters who have been under attacks over …

Except for the calendar which says this is Easter and the Federal Government which declared Friday 7th and Monday 10th April as Easter holidays, there are no celebrations in the air in the real sense of the word. Not many people are celebrating not because they do not want to but because they cannot. As they say, money has decreed …

Spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, Barrister Festus Keyamo has said that the team has successfully countered all “unfounded claims” by the opposition. Keyamo, who described the opposition as “sore losers”, alleged that they were making unfounded claims to diminish the legitimacy of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In a statement on his verified Twitter handle …

The last elections have demonstrated a new destructive loser’s variant in the Nigerian isle. It is a stubborn unwillingness to accept defeat, to twist an obvious failed candidacy into an ethnic circus by an extremist rump , unfortunately now widening their sphere by coupling into their midst an otherwise civil, enlightened camp. The thronging of a particular section of the …

A few days ago, the Enugu State House of Assembly was in the news, after years of unflatteringly idle and comatose legislative existence for all the wrong reasons. One of its principal officers, Chinedu Nwamba, who chairs the House Committee on, wait for it, “Public Accounts and Anti-corruption”, rose on the floor of the Assembly with a motion that was …

No fewer than nine Senior Advocates of Nigeria have been appointed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to defend the results of the 25th February presidential election. The team is to be led by former Nigerian Bar Association President, Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN). Other members of the team are Stephen Adehi (SAN), Oluwakemi Pinheiro (SAN), Miannaya Essien (SAN), and Abdullahi …

From Accra to Cape Town images of Nollywood, Nigeria’s popular movie footprint, are a common staple in homes across the continent as are the sights and sounds of its pop icons who are also amongst Africa’s biggest. When politics is on the menu, however, it does not appear that the rest of the continent has the same appetite for what …