The Accord Party says it is confident that Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke will retain office in the 15 August governorship election, citing what it described as widespread public support for the incumbent. Speaking in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the party’s Lagos State Chairman, Mr Dele Oladeji, predicted that Adeleke…
The Head of Service of Edo, Dr Anthony Okungbowa on Monday described Edo as the leading state in e-governance among the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory. Okungbowa made the remarks while addressing Permanent Secretaries, Directors, and members of staff of the Edo Civil Service in Benin. The News Agency of…
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) governorship candidate in Oyo State, Mr Saheed Oladele, has said that the electorate need to wake up to the reality of supporting with their finances candidates for political office. Oladele stated this on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan. The governorship candidate said…
Senate Leader, Sen. Opeyemi Bamidele, has defended the passage of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Alteration) (State Police) Bill, 2026, describing it as a child of necessity rather than political expediency. This is contained in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja by his Directorate of Media and Public Affairs. Bamidele said…
An All Progressives Congress (APC) Chieftain in Katsina, Abdulaziz Maituraka, has launched the Tinubu/Radda re-election campaign with an empowerment programme for 200 commercial tea sellers and party officials. Speaking at the event in Katsina on Sunday, Maituraka said each tea seller received crates of eggs, cartons of indomie noodles, and N20,000 in cash to support…
President Bola Tinubu has congratulated former Lagos State Governor and ex-Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on his 63rd birthday. Tinubu, in a statement issued by his spokesperson, Mr Bayo Onanuga, on Sunday in Abuja, described Fashola as an outstanding administrator, accomplished legal practitioner and patriotic Nigerian. The president said Fashola’s exemplary leadership…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has disowned the purported official list of successful candidates from its recently-held primaries in circulation, describing it as fake and unauthorised. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Felix Morka, in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the party had not released any official list of winners of its primaries….
The Senate on Wednesday, expeditiously passed the State Police Bill which sought to move Nigeria from a unitary policing structure to a federal policing mode. The passage of the bill followed the clause by clause consideration of the bill by the committee of the whole of the Senate. The bill is entitled: “A bill for…
The Constitution Amendment Bill on State Police passed its second reading during the Senate plenary on Wednesday in Abuja. The Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, moved a motion for the suspension of Senate rules to accelerate consideration of the executive bill seeking constitutional backing for state police services. Leading the debate on the bill, Bamidele said…
The Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Edo, Tony Alile, says the party’s campaign for the 2027 general elections will focus on practical solutions to the country’s challenges. Alile made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Benin. He described the ADC as the only…
