The newly elected Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State has reaffirmed its total and unflinching loyalty to the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) under the leadership of Barrister Kabiru Turaki. In a statement issued on Friday, the Lagos PDP Exco-elect declared its full alignment...
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National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN), has downplayed the impact of the recent judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, insisting that the ruling poses no threat to the party’s ongoing “rebirth” process. Turaki made this known on Friday...
A 25-year-old man, Awakaria Anise, on Friday appeared before an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan for allegedly stealing chickens worth N175,000. Anise, whose address was not provided, was charged with malicious damage, stealing and unlawful strangling of chickens. He, however pleaded not guilty to the charges. The Prosecutor, Sgt. Samuel...
A couple has been arraigned before an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, over allegations that they threatened to kill pastors and members of a church. The defendants, Olamide Abraham, 45, and his wife, Abidemi Abraham, 32, were brought before the court by the police on Wednesday. Their...
Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has released what he described as documentary evidence to back his claim that the Oyo State Government received N50 billion from the Federal Government as intervention funds following the January 2024 Ibadan explosion. Fayose said he was compelled to make the documents public...
Bishop of the Ibadan Anglican Diocese, Most Rev. Joseph Akinfenwa, has delivered a stern message to Nigeria’s political class, warning them to stop turning the suffering of citizens into a political game. In a statement released in Ibadan Akinfenwa lamented that insecurity — though a long-standing national challenge —...
High Court in Ibadan has handed down the ultimate sentence to five men found guilty of killing a taxi driver during a violent confrontation in 2024. Justice Oyeyemi Ajayi of the Oyo State High Court, delivering judgment on Monday, ruled that Segun Taiwo (36), Kehinde Ademola (46), Yahaya Adeniyi...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwart Samuel Anyanwu has dismissed the party’s recent convention in Ibadan, Oyo State, describing the entire exercise as a “jamboree” and insisting it lacked legitimacy. Speaking in an exclusive chat with Channels Television—just hours after the PDP announced his suspension alongside several other party figures—Anyanwu...
If my late good friend, Dr. Onukaba Ojo of blessed memory were alive, he would have perfectly given the Ibadan PDP Convention a most befitting theatrical production, staging it under the genre: Tragicomedy of the Highest Order, or something even better. Not because the actors lacked costumes or a...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has announced the expulsion of the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, the factional secretary of the party, Samuel Anyanwu, Austine Nwachukwu and Dan Orbit over alleged misconduct and indiscipline. The motion for their expulsion was read by the former BoT Chairman,...
Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has categorically dissociated and distanced itself from the purported report of the BoT reconciliation committee being circulated in some section of the media. Chairman of PDP BoT, Sen. Adolphus Wabara, disclosed this in a statement issued by the party...
Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from proceeding with its national convention, ruling that the event cannot go ahead until former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido, is allowed to obtain a chairmanship nomination form. Delivering judgment on Friday, Justice Peter Lifu held that...
A High Court sitting in Ibadan has fixed December 8 to deliver its ruling on a hotly contested jurisdictional challenge in a suit seeking to halt the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s upcoming National Convention scheduled for this weekend in the Oyo State capital. The suit was instituted by party...
The ancient city of Ibadan, long regarded as the political heartbeat of Southwestern Nigeria, has thrown its gates wide open as it prepares to host what many are already describing as one of the most consequential gatherings in the party’s recent history—the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Elective Convention,...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has drawn a firm line in the sand, declaring that its 2025 Elective National Convention will hold exactly as scheduled—November 15 and 16, 2025 in Ibadan—regardless of what it describes as “persistent judicial distractions.” This resolution emerged from an emergency stakeholders’ meeting that ran late...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has clarified that its 2025 National Convention will hold as originally planned and has not been postponed. The National Working Committee (NWC) and the 2025 National Convention Organizing Committee (NCOC), confirmed that the convention is set to take place in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital,...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reaffirmed that the suspension of three top national officers — Senator Samuel Anyanwu (National Secretary), Hon. Umar Bature (National Organising Secretary), and Barr. Kamaldeen Ajibade (SAN), National Legal Adviser — remains in full effect. The party also dismissed claims by North Central Vice Chairman,...
In a strong show of unity and purpose, the Forum of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) State Chairmen has thrown its full weight behind the party’s National Chairman, Ambassador Umar Damagun, and the National Working Committee (NWC), as preparations heighten for the PDP National Elective Convention scheduled for November 15–16,...
By OLA MODUPE , Ibadan – A group of armed robbers on Monday morning attacked a bank customer near the Oyo State Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, carting away an undisclosed sum of money and leaving a police officer seriously injured. The Oyo State Police Command spokesperson, CSP Adewale Osifeso, confirmed...
From WOLE ADEDOYIN – The Ibadan Book Club (IBC), has announced that the October edition of its prestigious Ibadan Book Dialogue will feature four outstanding female writers — Ogbue Anwuli Temitope, Gloria James Chinemerem, Oke Inioluwa Gladys, and Esther Boluwatife Ogunleye — as headline guests. The event is scheduled to take...