The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has decried the harassment of the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, opposition leaders, and voices of dissent, by the Federal Government.
Ekweremadu
The party accused the government of misusing the anti-graft and security agencies close to the…Ekweremadu: APC Is Desperate To Dent And Quench The Opposition
By Jude Ndukwe
“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force” – Ayn Rand
…Sambo Dasuki and Nigeria’s Subtle Descent into Anarchy
The All Progressives Congress, APC suffered a grave set back on Tuesday after some of its major officers dumped the party for the main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The Senate President Bukola Saraki announced his defection hours after the Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed …APC Spokesman Bolaji Abdullahi dumps APC for PDP
PRESS STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, HIS EXCELLENCY, DR. ABUBAKAR BUKOLA SARAKI, CON, ON 31ST JULY, 2018.
I wish to inform Nigerians that, after extensive consultations, I have decided to take my leave of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Bukola Saraki
This is not a decision that …I was forced out of APC – Bukola Saraki
The Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki has announced his resignation from the All Progressives Congress, APC.
This is coming barely a week after over 50 members of the National Assembly dumped the ruling party for the Peoples Democratic Party.
Though Saraki has not informed Nigerians of his next…Breaking: Saraki dumps APC
The Executive Governor of Benue StateSamuel Ortom has been linked to N22 billion fraud by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
Samuel Ortom
The commission is also investigating the 22 members of the State House of Assembly who were locked out by the Nigerian Police on Monday to…EFCC investigates Benue Governor Samuel Ortom over N22bn fraud
By Ojo Maduekwe
The national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, is rattled by the crisis rocking the party. Of course, the former trade unionist with a history of confronting military governments will feign indifference. Perhaps even raise a clenched fist…[OPINION] Oshiomhole’s volte-face on Ortom
Being a text of an open letter to Mr. Rochas Okorocha, Governor of Imo State, Tuesday 31, July 2018
Okorocha
The Board of Trustees, Patrons and members of Benin National Congress Worldwide read with utter consternation your recent reckless and mischievous outburst against our revered father and…God and Our Ancestors Are Angry With Governor Okorocha – BNC
“It doesn’t make any sense, it doesn’t mean anything. We are learned people, we have read the constitution, we know the provisions,” The Executive governor of Benue State wondered on Monday.
Samuel Ortom
Mr Samuel Ortom couldn’t believe how his former political party, the All Progressives C…Impeachment Notice: This doesn’t make sense – Sad Ortom
lawmakers impeach Imo State Deputy Speaker
By Ehi Ekhator
About 27 members of the Kano State House of Assembly signed the impeachment notice served to the Speaker, Abdullahi Atta on Monday morning
Rivers State House of Assembly
The aggrieved lawmakers accused the former speaker of corruption,…Kano lawmakers serve speaker with Impeachment notice
Members of the Peoples Democratic Party at the House of Assembly have condemned the political crisis in Benue State where the opposition members with eight members out of 30 members of the House of Assembly served the state governor, Samuel Ortom with impeachment notice.
Samuel Ortom
The…PDP condemns police for aiding Ortom’s impeachment
A former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct ‘New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP)’, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has described recent defections by some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and supervised by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and his counterpart in the House …Former nPDP Spokesperson apologises to Buhari Over Saraki, Dogara’s Behaviours
The Federal Government has assembled 1000-strong military force, compromising the army, air force, police and the civil defence to launch fierce attacks on the bandits terrorising the villages and towns of Zamfara State.
President Buhari
Following directives by President Muhammadu Buhari, the…Buhari orders security forces, fighter aircraft to go after Zamfara bandits
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned Mr. David Kaye, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression asking him to his use your good offices and position to “publicly press the Senate President Bukola Saraki a…SERAP drags Saraki, Senate to UN over repressive Press Council bill
By Ehi Ekhator
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has threatened a legal action against the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun over her refusal to clear the air on the damaging certificate forgery allegation.
Kemi Adeosun
Two weeks ago, the organization had asked Mrs A…NYSC Certificate Forgery: SERAP Threatens Legal Action Against Kemi Adeosun
By Usama Dandare
Mr. Gubbaru Rumbuki has sought to refute my criticism of the current leadership of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal. In his recent piece published via social media, of Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 1138hrs, under the caption ‘CRYING MORE THAN THE BEREAVED’ and bore the s…Crying More Than The Bereaved; A Rejoinder To Governor Tambuwal’s Attack Dog
By Erasmus Ikhide
ON July 31st, 2013 a day after Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) was registered by Independent National Electoral Commission, I got a surprising call at dawn from the storming petrel, warrior of the pen, essayist and a poet who uses words like a sculptor, Mr. Odia Ofeimu with…Like Odia Ofeimu, I Celebrate Buhari For Killing APC
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned the factional National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Adams Oshiomhole, to stop behaving like an attack dog.
Governor Oshiomhole
In a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan on Saturday, the …Stop Behaving Like An Attacking Dog – PDP
A money transfer provider for the African diaspora Ping-Express demanded a wedding certificate from its customer before a transaction is concluded.
Ping Express was formed in December 2014 and launched its service in December 2015 to disrupt an industry dominated by existing players who offer a…Ping-Express demands Wedding Certificate Before Sending Money – Customer says
By Ehi Ekhator
A federal lawmaker representing Kogi West constituency, Senator Dino Melaye who was reported to have been abducted by unknown persons on Thursday has regained freedom.
Dino Melaye
His alleged abduction was disclosed by his colleague, a senator representing Bayelsa East…Breaking: Dino Melaye regains freedom
Re: Chief John Odigie-Oyegun Fully Supports All Efforts to Reconcile, Unify the APC
A former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, the APC Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has denied a certain report circulating on the social media which was credited to him, against the incumbent Chairman,…Oyegun denies statement against Oshiomhole, says it’s fake news
A federal Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial district Dino Melaye has been abducted, his colleague a senator representing the Bayelsa East Constituency, Ben Murray-Bruce.
He disclosed it through his twitter handle on Thursday morning.
His abductors were in a Toyota Sienna and blocked the …Breaking: Dino Melaye abducted by unknown persons
By Ehi Ekhator
Benue State – The All Progressives Congress, the APC has described the defection of the Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom as “somewhat surprising”.
Samuel Ortom
It could be recalled that the governor had said he was satisfied with the resolution after the…APC expresses suprises over Ortom’s defection after Oshiomhole’s intervention
The Peoples Democratic Party has warned the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop its nefarious plot to impeach Ekiti State Governor, Chief Ayo Fayose or attract dire consequences.
Fayose
In a statement on Thursday by the National Publicity Secretary Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP says the …PDP Raises Alarm over Plots to Impeach Fayose
The Senate President Bukola Saraki boycott the President’s dinner meeting on Wednesday evening.
President Muhammadu Buhari had called a meeting of All Progressives Congress lawmakers after 15 senators dumped the party for the Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday.
The details of the meeting …Saraki boycotts Buhari’s dinner meeting
By Jude Ndukwe
How fast things change? How quickly destinies turn around? In the first week of July 2018, the police had invited the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, for questioning over the infamous Offa Robbery. Tongues wagged, creating another round of tension in the land. Many could not…Saraki: Will Affliction Rise a Second Time?
President Muhammadu Buhari hosted President Patrice Talon of the Republic of Benin at State House, Abuja, Wednesday, during which the two leaders agreed on the imperativeness of a joint committee to combat smuggling.
President Buhari
Also to be consulted in the workings of the committee is Niger…Nigeria, Benin Republic To Set Up Joint Committee On Smuggling
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has launched its latest report on “how citizens can use the Freedom of Information Act to curb corruption and improve access to public services, particularly education, health care and water in Nigeria.”
SERAP
The report raises “concerns th…How citizens can use FOI Act to curb corruption in health, education, water sectors – SERAP
..says APC no longer represents Benue people
By Ehi Ekhator
While the All Progressives Congress (APC) is trying to come to term with the hurricane shift that took place in the party on Tuesday, the Executive governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom announced his defection to the main opposition,…Benue Governor, Samuel Ortom dump APC for PDP
The Minister of Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah, is enmeshed in a N993,000 accommodation allowance double payment mess, according to details of the annual report by the Auditor-General of the Federation for 2016.
Buhari returns to Nigeria
The controversial payment, the report revealed,…Buhari’s minister in N993,000 hotel accommodation double payment mess – Report
By Ehi Ekhator
The Presidency says it has taken note of the orchestrated campaign against President Muhammadu Buhari each time a Very Important Person (VIP) is invited by the law enforcement agencies, in the discharge of their legitimate duties and functions.
Femi Adesina, Mallam Garba Shehu
The…Saraki’s Invitation: Allow Law Enforcement Agencies To Do Their Work – Presidency
says he’s committed to values of democracy
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his total commitment to the values of democracy, freedom of choice as well as total willingness to work with all members of the National Assembly, irrespective of their political party, for the benefit of…I Wish You Well – Buhari tells Defectors
says he’s committed to values of democracy
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his total commitment to the values of democracy, freedom of choice as well as total willingness to work with all members of the National Assembly, irrespective of their political party, for the benefit of…I Wish You Well – Buhari tells Defectors
says power is transient
A former Vice President of Nigeria Atiku Abubakar has adviced the Nigeria government to stop persecuting members of the National Assembly.
Nigerians woke up to the siege laid by the Nigerian Police at the House of the deputy speaker of the Senate, Ike Ikweremadu and the…Stop the Persecution of NASS Leadership Now – Atiku tells Buhari
The National Chairman of the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress Comrade Adams Oshiomhole described those who decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP as politicians without electoral value.
Oshiomhole was reacting to the hurricane decamp the APC experienced on Tuesday morning.
The…Defectors Have No Electoral Values – Adams Oshiomhole
The National Chairman of the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress Comrade Adams Oshiomhole described those who decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP as politicians without electoral value.
Oshiomhole was reacting to the hurricane decamp the APC experienced on Tuesday morning.
The…Defectors Have No Electoral Values – Adams Oshiomhole
Members of the Peoples Democratic Party in the House of Assembly are singing and dancing at the National Assembly over the mass defection of the members of the All Progressives Congress this morning.
The happy members in a video were seen singing anti-APC songs in the lobby, while some were…PDP reps sing anti-APC song as Dogara enters National Assembly
Despite several dramas today against potential decampers and members of the Peoples Democratic Party, 16 Senators of the All Progressives Congress, APC have dumped the ruling party for the main opposition.
This happened on Tuesday morning on the floor of the Senate presided over by the embattled…Breaking: 16 APC Senators Decamp To PDP
I am not jittery as PDP alleged – Oshiomhole
Why I am begging R-APC members – Oshiomhole
The new National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole said that his decision to beg members of the Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC) not to leave is…I’m Not Stopping You From Dumping Palm Wine For Kai Kai – Oshiomhole replies PDP
My invitation a ploy to hold back in APC – Saraki
The homes of the Senate President, Dr. Senator Bukola Saraki and Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu were surrounded in the early hours of on Tuesday by the operatives of the Department of State Services and the men of the Nigeria…Police, DSS, surround Saraki, Ekweremadu’s homes
Buba Galadima
The National Chairman of the Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC) Engr. Buba Galadima survived a motor accident on Monday along Hadeija-Kano Road.
The chairman was returning from Yobe State where he went to comfort his brother who lost his daughter.
Galadima was in a Sports…Breaking: R-APC Chairman Buba Galadima survives a motor Accident
…Says APC Now Dead
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the factional National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has become jittery over the mega coalition between the PDP and 38 other political interests, leading to his resort to hauling of misdirected i…Oshiomhole, Buhari jiffer Over Mega Coalition, Says PDP
The Officer-in-Charge of a local security outfit, Gombe State Marshal, Mr. Sunday Jika has confirmed on Sunday, the death of one person in an accident that the Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung was involved in, according to the News Agency of Nigeria.
20 others were reported to have…Ghastly Accident: Driver burnt to death, Solomon Dalung escapes
The Arewa Consultative Youth Forum has described the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government as visionless bunch running the country to the edge of a precipice.
President Buhari
The group expressed this in a statement reacting to the response from the Presidency to comments credited to…Buhari Govt Visionless, Incompetent, Insensitive – Arewa Youth
President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja said he made his intention to contest the 2019 Presidential Elections known early in order to douse rising speculations and give the party, All Progressives Congress (APC), enough time to prepare for the polls.
President Buhari
President Buhari, who…2019: Why I Declared Early – President Buhari
By Erasmus Ikhide
It emerged yesterday against the earlier supposition that Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State values his selfish political destiny over and above the unremitting killings and the worsening humanitarian turmoil President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration visited on…Governor Ortom’s Un-turning Point
A Lagos-based Lawyer and Human Rights Activist, Mr. Inibehe Effiong has filed a lawsuit against the Commissioner for Education of Akwa Ibom State seeking the leave of the court to compel the Commissioner to furnish him with information and records on funding for public education in the State…Barr. Inibehe Drags Akwa Ibom Education Commissioner To Court To Compel Release Of Records Of Funding For Public Education.
Says He Can’t Deceive Nigerians, PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari and the Federal Government to perish the thought of trying to use the ‘unveiling’ of a nonexistent national carrier to beguile Nigerians now that election is around the corner, as suc…Nigeria Air: A ploy to siphon Billions of Naira – PDP mocks Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday concluded a successful Official Visit to the Netherlands, meeting with Nigerian Embassy staff, before departing for home.
At a meeting with the embassy staff and their families, the President thanked them for being worthy ambassadors.
President Buhari
While…Netherlands: President Buhari Meets With Nigerian Embassy Staff
…..Congratulates ICC on 20th-anniversary celebration
As President Muhammadu Buhari was billed to deliver a message as a gust at the conference organized by the International Criminal Court of Justice in Haque, Netherland, a human rights activist, Comrade Adeniyi, Alimi Sulaiman has urged…Anniversary celebration: Charge Buhari for genocide, Rights activist tells ICC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has disowned a recent gloating tweet that announced the imminent revival of a criminal case against outgoing Governor of Ekiti, Ayo Fayose.
EFCC
In a statement on Monday night, spokesman of the commission, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, said the “purported tweet …EFCC disowns tweet on Fayose
By Fani-Kayode
“When Fayose won in 2014, the whole of Ekiti erupted with joy. In 2018 the APC “won” and all the streets of Ekiti are looking so gloomy. The people are sad because their will has been truncated”- Adeolu Daramola.
Femi Fani-Kayode
My friend and brother,…Ekiti Election: Weep Not For Fayose, Weep For Nigeria – Fani-Kayode
By Erasmus Ikhide
RAUF AREGBESOLA – SOME 8-year ago, the briskly moving revolutionary dynamo and tedious beard spotting personage had a “pact” with the people of State of Osun. As a dealer in hope with a mission to rekindle in his people the vanishing virtue of humility,…Aregbesola Revisited by Erasmus Ikhide
By Ehi Ekhator
SOKOTO – A foremost sociocultural and political Renaissance group in Nigeria, the Benin National Congress (BNC) has reached out to the Executive Governor of Sokoto State, Alh. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal over the gruesome killings in the state.
Tambuwal
The President of the group, …Sokoto State: BNC writes Tambuwal; expresses devastation over gruesome killings
ICC – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) charges President Muhammadu Buhari to use his attendance of the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Rome Statute to report his administration to the court over documented human right abuses, the crime against…Report Yourself to ICC – PDP To Buhari
By Jude Ndukwe
The sorrow in the land is becoming too palpable; the tears are flowing endlessly; hardship has become the hallmark of the nation and tyranny has become the signature of government. Nigerians, rather than pray for a good day pray for the prevention of a bad one, everyday, as there…2019: Coalition as Exit Door to Tyranny, Ineptitude, Hardship and Sorrow
BENIN – Many fear dead as a vehicle plunge into Ovia River at Evbonogbon, on the Edo- Ondo Boundary, on the Lagos-Benin Expressway.
Rescuers were seen pulling out a baby in the sunk vehicle.
Video below
Details later.
Breaking: Many fear dead as vehicle plunge into Ovia River in Edo [Video]
Lauds INEC, security agencies and Ekiti Electorates
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress APC, in Rivers State, Prince Tonye Princewill has congratulated his Excellency Dr. John Olukayode Fayemi on his victory at the just concluded governorship poll in Ekiti State which was held…Ekiti guber poll: Princewill congratulates Fayemi on his victory
