Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) under the aegis of the Progressive Governors are aggressively pushing that one of them be given the party’s 2023 presidential ticket. Although he is yet to formally declare his interest in the job, there are indications that this new move may favour Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, who is also Chairman of …

Legal icon and elder statesman, Chief Afe Babalola SAN has canvassed for the suspension of the 2023 general elections and the installation of an interim government to replace the administration President Muhammadu Buhari at the end of its tenure in May next year. Babalola, the founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, told newsmen in in the Ekiti State capital …

By Segun Ayobolu At last, the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), this week, formally announced, via a recorded video shared on social media, his aspiration to contest the 2023 Presidential election in a bid to succeed his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari. This move has been much speculated and anticipated despite the good Professor’s hitherto public reticence on the matter. …

The N4 trillion approved on Thursday by the National Assembly to fund fuel subsidy this year has been condemned by the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), which says the action would ruin the economy. Fuel subsidy fund was N442.72 in the budget earlier passed by the legislature and assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari. But with this new development, it …

Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has expressed appreciation to President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Council of State (NCS) for granting state pardon to former Governors of Taraba and Plateau States, Rev. Jolly Nyame and Senator Joshua Dariye respectively. Both former Governors were serving terms at the Kuje Correctional Centre, in the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), Abuja over financial malfeasance …

Apart from Nigeria’s general elections already scheduled for next year, another major national activity will hold in the same year, as the National Council of State (NCS) has fixed a national population census for April 2023 The National Council of State, which has the constitutional role of  advising the Federal Executive Council on policy matters, rose from its meeting in …

With Easter and Sallah festivities around the corner, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved immediate release of 40,000 metric tons of assorted grains from the Strategic Grains Reserve, to assist less-privileged Nigerians to celebrate the religious festivals. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Muhammed Mahmood told State House Correspondents after a closed-door meeting with Buhari at the Presidential Villa, …

Let’s start with a caveat: free comments are part of democracy, and so this is not an attempt to muzzle anyone. Nobody should come and shout, oh, they don’t want us to say our minds again. They want to padlock our mouths. Not at all. President Muhammadu Buhari is not even the type that would gag anyone, and the polity …

Telephone lines that are yet to be linked with the subscribers to the National Identity Numbers (NIN) have been deactivated. About 72.2 million such lines will be affected by the new measure. This follows the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari, a decision that was anchored on improving the worrisome security situation in the country. Terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and other criminal …

By Emmanuel Ado Nasir El- Rufai, Governor of Kaduna state, is guilty by association. First is his close association with Muhammadu Buhari, the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, who is not particularly popular in a section of the country. Another is El-Ruf Nasir El- Rufai, Governor of Kaduna state, is guilty by association. First is his close association …