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The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has rejected Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s loyalists’ conditions for peace in the party. Abiodun, who spoke with The PUNCH through his Campaign read more

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has dismissed as lacking in merit, a suit challenging refusal of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC)‎, to register a same sex group under the aegis of “Lesbian Equality and Empowerment Initiatives read more

With the recent revelation by the Special Adviser to the President on National Social Welfare Programme, Mrs. Maryam Uwais, that Federal Government feeds pupils under the school feeding programme with over six million eggs weekly, many would have thought that poultry f read more

Faced with increasing loss of personnel and strongholds, ISIS and operatives from its affiliates, including Boko Haram, are nearing advanced stages in turning ‘civilian’ drones into deadly weapons of warfare, expert intelligence and counter-terrorism evaluations from the United States have warned. A global alert read more

It is important to reiterate that ahead of the 2019 elections, such open displays of intimidation are sending wrong signals. Our democracy is being undermined with this misu read more

As the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) lifts the ban on campaign for the 2019 presidential and National Assembly elections today, the main political parties are rolling out activities to mark the beginning of electioneering. While the presi read more

The gubernatorial ambition of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has received a boost as the Fulanis, one of the dominant ethnic nationality in Niger State, have withdrawn their support for the ruling read more

A person suspected to be a vandal was discovered lifeless recently in a pipeline at Gbaga axis of Ogijo, in Ogun State,the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation read more

Rep Anayo Nnebe (PDP-Anambra), has dismissed the call by leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on the people of the South read more

Former Governor of Cross River state, Donald Duke has warned Nigerians not to replace failure with past failure in the forthcoming election. Donald Duke, who is the presidential read more

The APC caucus came close to losing its majority in the House in July shortly before the National Assembly commenced its annual recess. In one swoop, 37 members of the party defected to other political read more

House of Representatives member and son of a former governor of Oyo State, late Alhaji Lamidi Adesina, Hon Adedapo Lam-Adesina, has said that he dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) due to high level of impunity read more

The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, on Monday refused to answer questions on whether the Kano State Governor read more

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged Nigerians to be vigilant and insist that political parties and their candidates do the right thing, to ensure a free fair, transparent a read more

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will this week begin investigation into allegations of financial impropriety leveled against the embattled national chairman of the ruling All read more

Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has faulted claims that he was asked by the Department of State Services (DSS) to resign his position. He stated read more

The groups under the aegis of Buhari’s Friends Network Organisation and Women 4 Buhari & Osinbajo, North Central Zone have boasted that there are no candidates better than President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor, Simon Lalong of read more

Pop singer, Olubankole Wellington, popularly known as Banky W, has declared his intention to contest for the Lagos State Eti-Osa Federal Constituency seat in House of Representatives on t read more

A civil society group has labelled the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a “wicked version of witchcraft” suffering from “masses rejection syndrome” for questioning the Social read more

The National Independent Electoral Commission has attributed the high cost of conducting elections to prevailing insecurity in most parts of the country and called for peaceful coexistence amongst read more

Kwara state police command has paraded a notorious and suspected crime kingpin in the Ilorin metropolis, Kale Bayero, together with four members of his gang. Bayero, who had been declared wanted by police was caught read more

President Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday that Nigeria will come out of the 2019 general election stronger. According to the president, the nation had been able to weather the storm over read more

A Deputy Director with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Sylvester Aigbogun, on Tuesday told the Ekiti Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in the FCT High Court, Apo that the July 14 read more

A coalition of civil society groups, under the aegis of C24, which seeks to promote good governance and electoral integrity, has raised the alarm over threats to the electoral read more

Embattle National chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has been described as a fundamental error, urging Senator Bola Tinubu to withdraw read more

Labour leaders, who have called off a planned nationwide strike, have agreed a new national minimum wage at the end of negotiations with a Tripartite Committee, read more

The former Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has said the federal government must perish the idea of increasing the pump price of petrol from N145 read more

The federal government is currently in a closed-door meeting with the National Tripartite Minimum Wage Committee members over the demand by labour union fo read more

Oby Ezekwesili, the presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), secretly met with former military president Ibrahim Babangida on Sunday. The meeting at the retired general’s read more

John Agim, spokesman of the defence headquarters (DHQ), has told members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) to be ready to face the consequences if they take read more

The All Progressives Congress has alerted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other security agencies of possible sinister motives behind recent Dubai read more

This is how the Cambridge University Local Examinations Syndicate-administered WAEC school certificate that Buhari said he had in 1961 looks like. If Buhari wants it, he should apply to Cambridge Assessment, the successor read more