Founder of the Reformed Peoples Democratic Party (R-PDP), a breakaway faction of mainstream PDP in Adamawa State, Dr Umar Ardo, has reacted to the split in the faction, attributing it to greed among departing members. The state chairman of the faction, Alhaji Jauro Gire, had led some other members of the faction...

Kola Ajayi, Alliance for Democracy (AD) Chairman in Lagos, has said that most opposition parties in the State are lazy. He declared that they had little or no fighting spirit to win elections. Ajayi spoke to NAN on Thursday while commenting on the chances of the opposition parties on October 31. The date...

Following internal crisis within the ranks of the Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Director-General of the Buhari/Osinbajo Campaign Council for the 2019 presidential poll, Dr. Olusegun Osinkolu, has advised aggrieved members to embrace the window of reconciliation provided...

The Edo State government has launched a sex offender register to name and shame rapists. The register also targets culprits of other forms of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV). On Wednesday, Commissioner for Justice, Prof. Yinka Omorogbe, decried the increase in SGBV. She vowed that perpetrators...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP says it welcomes the European Union’s visa ban and asset seizure against election riggers. The nation’s foremost opposition party commended the UK government for its quick response alongside the US in their bid to stop electoral fraud being perpetrated by leaders...

With 23 days to the governorship election, tension is currently brewing in Ondo State following the attack on the convoy of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu by political thugs suspected to be loyalists of the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Eyitayo Jegede. According to sources, the campaign...

Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has received a famous politician and former House of Representatives member, Hon Abubakar Mahmud Wambai who has now moved into the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Wambai was received at the Government House in Yola on Saturday with thousands of his supporters who defected...

Olusegun Bamgbose, a chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, against being used by the All Progressives Congress, APC, to influence the forthcoming governorship elections in Edo and Ondo States. The governorship election in Edo State...

Maryann Philip-Shaibu, the wife of Edo Deputy Governor and Adams Oshiomhole, a former Governor of the State, have engaged in a war of words over an alleged threat to the life of the Deputy Governor’s wife. Marryann had alleged that Oshiomhole sent thugs to monitor her movement, in a petition to Edo Commissioner...

The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) suit seeking the disqualification of Osagie Ize-iyamu from the September 19 governorship election in Edo State was not heard on Tuesday. The hearing was stalled at the Federal High Court in Abuja due to a motion by the All Progressives Congress (APC). The PDP had in a suit...