Nigeria 2027

By Paul Williams As battle for the speakership of the 10th House of Representatives continues to gather momentum, a group operating under the aegis of Coalition of True Democrats yesterday rose from an emergency meeting opposing the ongoing moves to impose Dr Tajudeen Abass as Speaker. National Coordinator of the...

…Says competence, productivity, defunct CPC factor considered…Urges Tinubu, NWC to resist pressures As the race for the Speakership of the House of Representatives intensifies, a prominent group of the ruling party, Progressives Foundational Movement (PFM) has thrown it’s weights behind the choice of Dr. Tajudeen Abass to oversee proceedings of...

By Paul Williams The socio -political group under the umbrella of ‘Oduwa Frontiers’ has called on the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to follow the path of honour and justice by reversing the unsolicited, unpopular zoning proposal and allow democracy and its tenets to thrive....

Amidst growing tension as to who succeeds the incumbent Speaker of the House of Representatives, the leading contender for the exalted position, Hon. Mukhtar Aliyu Betara has said that the coalition of seven contestants now known as G-7 will determine who finally emerges. Hon. Betara who spoke at the unveiling...

The Equity and Justice Forum in the All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the national leadership of the ruling party not to make mistake of exclusion the North-central region from the National Assembly leadership positions. The forum, however, recommended the incumbent Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Idris...

By Nicole Augustine  Amidst protest by aggrieved lawmakers, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has began moves to douse the tension generated by the zoning and endorsement of candidates for National Assembly principal offices,  Our Correspondent reports that  complaints and protest have trailed the endorsement of Senator Godswill Akpabio for Senate...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will publish the personal particulars of candidates in the three off-cycle governorship elections in Bayelsa, lmo and Kogi States scheduled for November 11, 2023. The electoral body made this known in a statement signed by its spokesman, Festus Okoye on Thursday. He...

The Labour Party faction led by Lamidi Apapa has distanced itself from agitation that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, should not be sworn in pending the resolution of the petitions before the presidential election tribunal. There was uproar when Archbishop John Onaiyekan, an elder statesman, said the judiciary ought to have...

By Blessing Jonathan A group, Niger Delta Rights Advocates (NDRA) has commended the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the recent  endorsement of Hon Benjamin Okezie Kalu for the position of the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives. Briefing journalists in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, the group also...

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has condemned social media attacks on the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, and other individuals. Obi said that his supporters, popularly known as Obidients, were law-abiding citizens, noting that...