Politics

The former member of the Board of the Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and a former ally of Governor Godwin Obaseki, Charles Idahosa has rejoined the All Progressives Congress, APC. Idahosa said he was rejoining the party he left with Obaseki about four years ago to ensure...

A civil society group, New Rivers Agenda, has condemned the former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, for the recent political impasse in the state. In a statement signed by its president, Johnson Zinaka, it stated that the emergence of Siminalayi Fubara as the governor of Rivers State was a...

…. says he is out to provoke Fubara into actions The immediate past governor of Rivers State and current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has vowed to intensify his efforts in destabilising the state. The FCT Minister, who has been antagonising Rivers State vowed to remove Governor...

A former Nigerian Ambassador to Mexico and Canada, Prof. Iorwuese Hagher, has formally defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Hagher was registered on Friday at his Utange Ward in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area by the APC Ward chairman, Orduuga Tyokegh. Speaking after registering...

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Friday, warned that the current illegal impeachment plot against the Governor of Rivers State, Sim Fubara, would have devastating effect on the President Bola Tinubu’s administration. He therefore called on President Tinubu to call Wike...

A Governorship aspirant of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in Rivers State in the 2023 general elections, Victor Orokoh, has described the call by the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to impeach Governor Fubara, as “a call for anarchy in the state.” The Chairman of the...

The Rivers Democratic Agenda (RDA) has congratulated Hon. Oko Jumbo on his emergence as the Speaker of the state assembly. In a statement signed by its leader, Hon. Iko Rowland, the group also applauded the assembly members for their decision to support Jumbo. He said the latest development has finally...

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court Maitama, has re-slated the commencement of the trial of a top civil servant in the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF), Bola Audu, who was arraigned on the 15th of February by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences...

The National Legal Adviser of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdulkarim Kana, says only the party’s National Working Committee, NWC, can suspend its National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje. Kana spoke on Monday while being featured on a Channels Television programme, Politics Today. He was reacting to the recent controversial suspension of...

A chieftain of Labour Party, LP, Mr. Callistus Uju Okafor has identified the national chairman of the party, Barr Julius Abure and the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress as the causes of the crisis in the party. Okafor, a former Deputy National Chairman of the party under late A.A...