GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the Supreme Court, on Monday, declined a suit seeking to sack President Bola Tinubu from office. The apex court, in a unanimous decision by a five-member panel of justices, awarded a fine of N5 million against the plaintiff, Chief Ambrose Owuru, who was the presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party,…
Bolaji Abdullahi, a former minister of sports and youth development, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He disclosed his intention to resign in a letter dated December 16 and addressed to the PDP ward chairman in Ubadawaki, Kwara state. Abdullahi confirmed the development to TheCable on Monday. The ex-minister also said he is…
Solomon Dalung, a former Minister of Youth and Sports, has explained the influence of cabals in Nigerian governance. He spoke on the Mic On Podcast published on Sunday. Dalung, who served as minister in the first term of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, alleged how a powerful group hijacked power after the former president’s victory in 2015….
The Nigerian Presidency has dismissed remarks made by Kemi Badenoch, the newly elected leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, about her upbringing in Nigeria, labelling them as a “cock and bull story.” Temitope Ajayi, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Bola Tinubu criticized Badenoch for her comments, which included claims that…
Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has called on President Bola Tinubu to caution Vice President Kashim Shettima against further verbal attacks on Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the British Conservative Party. Igboho’s statement, obtained in Osogbo on Sunday, came in response to Shettima’s remarks about Badenoch, who had earlier made…
President Bola Tinubu has called on West African leaders to draw inspiration from Ghana’s recent elections, which he described as a model of democratic maturity and national unity. A statement on Sunday by Bayo Onanuga, special adviser to the president on information and strategy, Tinubu praised Ghana for its peaceful presidential and parliamentary elections held…
The Supreme Court will on Monday, December 16, determine the fate of President Bola Tinubu in a fresh suit seeking his removal from office as Nigeria’s leader. The new suit marked SC/CV/667/2023 is praying the apex court to sack Tinubu on two major grounds of alleged non-qualification to hold office as Nigeria’s President and usurpation…
The military junta of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger Republic will end their membership of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in January 2025, the regional bloc said on Sunday. This is part of the resolutions reached at the end of the 66th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Commission Authority of Heads of…
Former presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, met with ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo over the weekend in Abeokuta, Ogun State, to deliberate on Nigeria’s political future. The meeting, held at Obasanjo’s residence within the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), also had former Cross River State Governor, Donald Duke, in…
Delta State Governor, Chief Sheriff Oborevwori, has strongly criticized the economic policies of the APC-led government under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, describing them as a “pathway to poverty” for Nigerians. In a scathing statement, Oborevwori attributed the severe hunger, poverty, and mass unemployment gripping the country to the economic measures introduced by the APC administration,…