A number of media outlets reported on Tuesday that Israeli officials have accused Hamas of rejecting a US plan to end the war in Gaza, after it issued a response to the proposals. The Palestinian group, however, has disputed this account. Read more…
Category: Politics
The solution to Nigerian electoral transparency would come where the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Nigerian Judiciary do not collude to rig the elections across the country. Guest speaker at the “2024 Democracy Day Lecture: June 12 and Read more…
President Bola Tinubu has responded to the social media reaction after he missed his step and fell while climbing into a vehicle for a parade to commemorate Democracy Day at Eagle Square in Abuja, saying it was a day worth Read more…
Former president, Goodluck Jonathan, has cautioned that the prevailing winners-take-all approach to politics in Nigeria is detrimental to political justice and unity. Speaking as chairman of a national symposium to mark Democracy Day at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday, he emphasised Read more…
Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, has warned of the threat posed by the lack of opposition in the country to unite and dislodge the All Progressives Congress (APC) from power. In a message issued on Tuesday to mark the occasion Read more…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State has categorically dismissed the alleged news of 1,300 members decamping to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) as baseless propaganda. This narrative, according to the PDP, is a deliberate attempt to mislead Read more…
Some members of the House of Representatives have proposed a bill to alter the 1999 Constitution (as amended) to provide for a single tenure of six years for the president and governors. The lawmakers are also proposing a bill for the rotation Read more…
A former governor of Jigawa State has rubbished the acclaimed label on President Bola Tinubu as the builder of modern Lagos State, faulting his government at the federal level for its inability to get things right. Tinubu served as the Read more…
Former minister of information, Chief Edwin Clark, has revealed that prominent politicians including former president Goodluck Jonathan, former Rivers State governors Peter Odili and Rotimi Amaechi responsible for Nyesom Wike’s rise in politics, are no longer on talking terms with Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor The re-election of Gov Charles Soludo for a second tenure received a boost over the weekend as one thousand, three hundred stalwarts of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State defected to the All Progressives Grand Read more…
Hamburg MP Olga Petersen has sought refuge in Russia, telling Bild that she feared having her children taken by the German state over her perceived support for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Petersen left Hamburg with her children last month, prompting Read more…
*IDEATO, IHIALA,ORLU TO EMERGE SENATORIAL ZONES ** FEDERAL CONSTITUENCIES, LGAs TO EMERGE ..NEW STATE TO EMERGE FROM IMO ABIA AND ANAMBRA The House of Representatives at the plenary on May 22nd introduced and passed through first reading a Bill which Read more…