The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced that it has now received a total of 129 applications from associations seeking registration as political parties. The update was provided during the commission’s regular weekly meeting held on Thursday. According to a statement signed by the National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee,…
Big Brother Naija Season 7 winner, Ijeoma Josephina Otabor, otherwise known as Phyna, says Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, may have lost his credibility in the wake of recent discoveries. In a post shared on her verified X account on Thursday, the celebrity star stated in clear terms that Peter…
The Nigerian government has denied reports that President Bola Tinubu has halted the issuance of five-year multiple-entry visas to United States citizens, insisting that no such directive has been given. In a statement issued on Wednesday by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, the Presidency described the claims as misinformation…
Senior Special Assistant to The President on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, has replied the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, who said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu did not make former President Muhammadu Buhari President in 2015. In a post on his social media account, the Presidential aide said even though…
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has announced the replacement of suspended senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, as chairman of the Senate Committee on Diaspora and Non-Governmental Organisations Akpabio, during plenary on Thursday, announced Senator Aniekan Bassey as the new chairman of the committee. As a result, Bassey replaces Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, whose leadership of the committee had been uncertain…
Ahead of the July 24 National Executive Committee meeting of the All Progressives Congress to take a position on the substantive national chairman of the party, former Kogi governor, Yahaya Bello may have decided to throw his hat into the ring. Our reporter sighted on Thursday, posters of the former Kogi governor on the busy…
Lauretta Onochie, former Special Assistant (SA) to former President Muhammadu Buhari, has claimed that Nigeria’s incumbent President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, did not support Buhari’s emergence as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2014. Buhari, a two-term president of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023, emerged the first presidential candidate of the APC in…
Mohammed Adoke, former attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, says he has forgiven everyone behind his ordeal in the prosecution of the OPL245 oil block litigation. Adoke spoke in Abuja on Thursday at the public presentation of his memoir, OPL245: Inside Story of the $1.3 billion Nigerian oil block. He said the motive…
The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State. In a unanimous decision delivered on Thursday, a five-member panel led by Justice Mohammed Garba dismissed, for lacking in merit, the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Asuerinme Ighodalo. The appeal sought to nullify the outcome of the…
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has disowned a viral list of state chairmen circulating across social media platforms. Earlier today, a post attributed to the ADC surfaced online announcing the appointment of 36 state chairmen and one for the federal capital territory (FCT). However, in a statement issued on Wednesday evening, Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC…