Politics

Chelsea football club’s Russian owner Roman Abramovich has been ”effectively barred from living in Britain.” The billionaire has not been seen at his Premier League football club’s south-west London home, Stamford Bridge, for months and in 2018 withdrew his application for a British Tier 1 investor visa in the wake …

Nigerian rapper, Folarin Falana, known as Falz, has addressed concerns on declaring for presidency in 2023. Falz has been at the forefront campaigning against old leaders, advocating for a better country and for the youths to lead Nigeria. Some individuals have since asked Falz to form or join a political …

President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn in 6 new commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The brief swearing-in ceremony which took place on Wednesday at the Council Chambers in the Presidential Villa had in attendance the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila and …

Barring any last-minute changes, President Buhari will sign the amended Electoral Act Amendment Bill on Friday, February 25.   A source close to the Presidency, who had earlier disclosed that the President would assent to the bill today February 23, confirmed the new date to Channels TV. According to the source, the new …

Sen. Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State, has said that the Vanguard newspaper report on his speech was inaccurate and erroneous.   Tinubu, reacting in a statement by his Media Aide, Mr Tunde Rahman, on Monday in Lagos said that the lead report by Vanguard newspaper captioned, “I’m ready to …

Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, has endorsed the presidential ambition of Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos state. Ganduje who spoke on Monday at the inauguration of an office for Northern Youth Professionals for Tinubu in Kano, said the entire North was behind Tinubu’s 2023 presidential ambition. He said …

  The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has reversed its earlier decision postponing its national convention indefinitely. The convention will now hold on March 26, the date earlier slated for the conduct of its zonal congresses.

UNLESS reason prevails and major stakeholders in the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) act cohesively, a fresh crisis capable of making a major bloc of the aggrieved to break away is looming, Sunday Tribune can report.  APC had been enmeshed in a web of intra-party schisms precipitated by power play …

Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State has been declared winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship pimary election held on Saturday, February19, 2022, across the 332 wards of the state, NAIJA360 reports. The chairman of the primary election committee and the governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbsulRazaq, announced the …

Governor Nyesom Wike has accused former chairman of Daar Communications, Raymod Dokpesu of being an All Progressives Congress (APC) mole in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Dokpesi who is a frontline supporter of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar who is reportedly nursing a presidential ambition, is alleged to have said Wike is spearheading a …