Politics

The leadership crisis unfolding at the Nasarawa State House of Assembly is at best a needless distraction. It is needless because ordinarily, 24 matured individuals shouldn’t have any problem deciding who leads the house. Indeed, there was obviously no any reason for the ensuing commotion than personal vendetta and contest...

His Excellency, Engineer Abdullahi Sule featured as guest on Arise Television today night being Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Excerpts from the interview as monitored from Lafia. On his choice of speakerI have a preference, but it’s not compulsory. My choice is the person I have worked with for the last...

Ahead of the June 13 inauguration of the 10th National Assembly, President Bola Tinubu has appealed to all All Progressives Congress, APC senators-elect to abide by the zoning arrangements as announced by the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party last month. The APC has zoned the President of the...

Today, he takes a bow, 20 years after he came into the legislature; working and rising from floor member to Minority Whip, Minority Leader, Majority Leader and finally the Speaker in 2019. He presides over the affairs of the House for the last time today. But, the Lagos lawyer from...

Governor Hope Uzodimma has dropped his deputy, Prof Placid Njoku, ahead of the November 11 governorship election in the state. In the list released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the list showed that Uzodimma has dropped Placid for a female deputy governorship candidate, Mrs. Ekemaru Chinyere Ihuoma. The...

Group operating under the aegis of Plateau APC Renaissance Movement ( PAPCRM) has lamented that several stakeholders in the state who participated in large scale anti party actives during the 2023 general elections are now been seen in the presidency seeking for political appointment . The group led by its...

There are indications that the governor of Benue state, Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia is making frantic efforts to remove the embattled chairman of the state chapter of All Progressive Congress, Comrade Austin Agada over his role to stop Aondona Dajoh from emerging as Speaker of the Benue State House of...

The former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has stated that the ruling All Progressives Congress government has been handed another opportunity to correct what he described as their past misdeeds against Nigerians at the expense of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party. Wike disclosed this during a live media chat,...

By Omonu YG Nelson In February 2018, I travelled to Zamfara State on an assignment in company of some senior journalists, prominent amongst which is, the former President of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Waheed Odusile of The Nations Newspaper, Victorson Agbenson, a political editor with the Federal Radio...