The Labour Party on Wednesday unveiled its Presidential Campaign Council, consisting of 1,234 members. The Director General of the Council, Doyin Okupe, also said those who think that the party has only social media supporters will be in for a […]
The 2023 appropriation bill of N20.5 trillion on Wednesday passed through the second reading in the Senate and the House of Representatives. The upper chamber referred the bill to its Committee on Appropriation for further legislative action and expressed dissatisfaction over […]
Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega has urged the electoral umpire to resist pressure by politicians who oppose to the deployment of the Bimodal Voter Registration System (BVAS) for the 2023 elections. Jega, who […]
THE International Monetary Fund, IMF, has projected that Nigeria’s economic growth will slow to 3.0 per cent in 2023 while the inflation rate drops to 17 per cent. Making these projections in the IMF October World Economic Outlook, WEO, released […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn-in Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). The swearing-in ceremony that took place before the commencement of the week’s Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting, was witnessed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, […]
Co-chair Interfaith Peace and Dialogue Forum, Bishop Sunday Onuoha, has said that negotiations to release the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu; and politically resolve every issue surrounding his continued incarceration, were still on. The cleric who disclosed […]
The Federal Government, yesterday, arraigned a Lagos State monarch, the Onikosi of Ikosi, Oba Alami Oloyede Onikosi, before the Federal High Court in Abuja over his alleged complicity in the forgery and falsification of a judgement of the Supreme Court. […]
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, Mr Peter Obi’s emergence as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party has been described as a rare chance for Nigeria. In an article published on Monday, The Economist recalled that some polls had tipped Obi […]
A former Deputy Governor of Sokoto State, Mukhtar Shagari, has revealed that he was contacted by the Labour Party to become Peter Obi’s vice presidential candidate. Shagari, speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, said he declined the opportunity […]
Owerri—The lead counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, yesterday, dismissed reports that IPOB’s leader, Nnamdi Kanu, would be in court today the 11th Day of October 2022. Ejiofor stated this in a statement he issued in Owerri, […]