The FCT chapter of African Democratic Congress (ADC) on Sunday suspended three executive members from Wuse Ward in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) for allegedly spearheading the controversial suspension of Sen. Ireti Kingibe. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Kingibe currently represents FCT at the Senate. The suspended executive members include: the ward…
Chief Samuel Ortom, the immediate past governor of Benue, has urged stakeholders, local government party officials and aspirants to massively mobilise and participate in the forthcoming e-registration. Ortom, who is the leader of the party in the state, made the call on Sunday at the PDP Expanded Caucus Meeting held in Makurdi. The former governor…
The City Boy Movement (CBM) has described the brief disruption that occurred during its mega empowerment rally in Owerri, Imo, as an attempt to undermine youth empowerment efforts in the South-East. Director-General of the movement, Francis Shoga, made this known in a statement issued by the Director of Public Affairs, Aminat Aminu-Isah, on Sunday in…
Governorship aspirants in Benue under the platforms of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have entered into a strategic partnership to unseat the current occupant of the seat come 2027. The governorship aspirants in their goodwill messages at the Benue PDP Expanded Caucus Meeting held in Makurdi agreed to rescue the…
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has replicated his Rivers’ Rainbow Coalition initiative in FCT, to deliver good governance to residents in area councils. Wike disclosed this while hosting the newly elected cCairmen of FCT Area Councils, who visited him in Abuja on Wednesday. The chairmen visited the Minister to present their…
Senators Amos Yohanna (PDP Adamawa), Abass Iya (PDP Adamawa) and Ikra Bilbis (PDP Zamfara) have defected from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to All Progressives Congress (APC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the senators’ defection was announced in separate letters read by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, at plenary on Wednesday. Yohanna, in…
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has welcomed the Court of Appeal judgment voiding the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) convention held in Ibadan on Nov. 15 and Nov. 16, 2025. The appellate court ruled on Monday that the party acted wrongly by proceeding with the convention in spite of a subsisting court order…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) says Nigeria’s opposition parties appear to be “merely breathing but not competing” ahead of the 2027 general elections. Lagos APC spokesman, Mr Seye Oladejo, said this in a statement issued on Monday in Lagos. “As the nation approaches the 2027 elections, Nigeria may be heading towards one of the most…
A Peoples Democratic Party chieftain, Chief Sunday Olaifa, has urged the party’s Board of Trustees led by Adolphus Wabara to urgently resolve its leadership crisis. Olaifa spoke on Monday while reacting to the Court of Appeal ruling on the prolonged dispute over the party’s national leadership. He is a former Lagos PDP Vice Chairman (West)…
Rt. Rev. Nelson Malau, Bishop of the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria (LCCN), has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct credible elections in 2027. Malau made the appeal in an interview with journalists at the closing of the LCCN Annual Convention on Monday in Numan Local Government Area(LGA) of Adamawa. He…
