By Abiola Olawale The 2023 Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has expressed his willingness to serve a single term as president under a coalition led by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai. Obi, a two-term governor of Anambra State said the move is a strategy aimed…
By Kolawole Ojebisi A former military governor of old Kaduna State, Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (rtd), has advised President Bola Tinubu against surrounding himself with sycophants. Dangiwa described sycophancy as a "scourge" which needed to be tamed before being mistaken for a norm in the country's polity. The retired military officer made this call in…
By Kolawole Ojebisi The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned the trial of the suspended lawmaker representing Kogi Central Senatorial District, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, till September 22, 2025. This follows the court's decision to grant the lawmaker bail on the strength of her position as a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and…
By Abiola Olawale The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised an alarm, accusing the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), of sending the Nigeria Police to allegedly harass and prevent its members from holding its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting. This comes after the 100th NEC meeting of the PDP faced significant disruption on Monday after…
By Kolawole Ojebisi The North-Central All Progressives Congress, APC, Forum has maintained that the position of the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) should be offered to a politician from the geo-political zone, making a case for a former governor of Nasarawa State, Alhaji Tanko Al-Makura. The Forum stated a number of…
By Kolawole Ojebisi The Presidency has said President Bola Tinubu's state visit to St.Lucia is not mere junketing but a purposeful trip aimed at ensuring the rekindling of the ancestral bonds between Nigeria and the Caribbean nation and the wider CARICOM bloc. It maintained that the trip will help ignite a new era of diplomatic,…
By Kolawole Ojebisi Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume, has dismissed reports making the rounds that he has been relieved of his duties by President Bola Tinubu as "entirely false and misleading" adding that it was fabricated by mischief makers. Akume reacted to the rumour of his sack in a statement…
By Kolawole Ojebisi A former senator and human rights activist, Shehu Sani, has highlighted reasons why politicians of Northern extraction should work for, rather than strategizing to thwart, President Bola Tinubu's re-election bid in 2027. Sani maintained that he is currently preoccupied with how to actualize Tinubu's re-election bid, stressing that it will be illogical…
By Kolawole Ojebisi Former President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed the political shenanigans hatched by some power brokers to deny him the right to stand-in for the late President Umaru Musa Yar'adua when the latter travelled abroad for medical treatment at the onset of his prolonged illness. Jonathan alleged that a top presidential aide deliberately withheld…