Nigeria 2027

Douglas Blessing, Port Harcourt A group under the aegis of Niger Delta Rights Advocate (NDRA) has given reason why Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu, member representing Bende Federal Constituency should emerge the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Addressing journalists in Port Harcourt, the group stressed that Kalu, who is the...

Senators-elect for the 10th Assembly are mobilising against the plans by the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to make the former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio, the Senate president, Daily Trust Saturday has gathered. It was also reliably gathered that governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)...

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is asking Nigerians to rally around President-elect Bola Tinubu, saying the time for politics is over. Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) defeated the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) to clinch the seat in...

About 1,000 pro-democracy groups in Nigeria have thrown their weight behind Hon Muktar Aliyu Betara for the position of Speaker in the 10th National Assembly. As a sign of their support for the Borno lawmaker, the groups led by the Parliament Watch Advocates (PWA) said they will hold a rally...

Ahead of May 29th inauguration of thhe new President, a pro-democratic and anti-sabotage group, The Natives has taken a solidarity walk to the national secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The Natives with over twenty million members across the country, comprises of all the tribes, ethnic nationalities and...

The President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu, has charged All Progressives Congress (APC) governors to work with the party’s leadership and lawmakers on the election of principal officers of the incoming 10th National Assembly. According to a statement issued by Mr Tunde Rahman, one of Tinubu’s Media Aides, on Thursday in Abuja,...

President Muhammadu Buhari has asserted that while the All Progressives Congress (APC) was working hard to retain power in the recent elections, the combined opposition was a victim of over confidence. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s spokesman in a statement, said the president stated this at his residence in the...

By Michael Oche As the tussle over the leadership of the 10th Assembly continues, a Coalition of Civil Society Organizations has called for a proper scrutiny of those jostling for the leadership of the 10th National Assembly. The Coalition said the position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives...

CivicHive: Declaring AA. Sule winner ‘shocking’ A former Attorney -General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Kanu Agabi, SAN, and eleven Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) are counsels to Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Nasarawa State, Hon. Emmanuel David Ombugadu, at the governorship elections petitions tribunal. Ombugadu,...

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), met with the All Progressives Congress governors on Thursday. Buhari met with the Progressive Governors’ Forum at the State House in Abuja following the Nigerian Army trooping and presentation of colors parade. Governors present in the meeting are Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu,...