With different manifestos, with different promises to even the ancestors, the living are always anxious of what gain they could get, shared among their two jaws, bring it let’s share it and chop it, who Democracy help? Both the illiterate and literate candidates speak their words, Some eloquently express...
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The currency redesign and the cash crisis it has engendered have exposed the treacherous nature of Nigeria’s ruling party(APC) and ruling elites. They have sought power and wealth as ends in themselves and not as means to better the society and lots of ordinary Nigerians. Their rallying points are...
Emeritus Prof. Shuaib Oba, Kwara’s New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) governorship candidate, says politics should not be seen as a dirty game left to politicians alone if Nigeria is to be fully developed. Oba, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday, urged Nigerians, especially the...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says its policy of cash withdrawal limit is not based on politics, contrary to insinuations. Mrs Aisha Ahmad, the Deputy Governor, CBN, said this in Abuja on Thursday when she answered questions from lawmakers at the House of Representatives during plenary. Ahmad, who...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The International Association for Advancement and Defense of Human Rights (IAADHR) has called on religious leaders in Nigeria to refrain from using their pulpits as platforms to ventilate political campaigns. The group said religious politics is capable of destroying the foundation of unity and...
Former Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole who has been tipped to play a prominent role in the Bola Ahmed Tinubu-Kashim Shettima presidential campaign says religion should not have any role in politics. “I think the issues before us and which we have to spend time discussing is what...
Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti has said that the Muslim-Muslim ticket adopted by the All Progressive Congress Party (APC) was not done to undermine the influence or relevance of Christians in the country. Mr Yinka Oyebode, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, in a statement on Sunday in...
The issue is the bruised ego of Gov Nyeson Wike who feels so wronged he is said to constitute the reason the return of the PDP to power is hanging in the balance. Some other political parties’ leaders are wooing Wike to join them, turning him into a beautiful...
It is another election era and merchants of falsehood and political fallacies have crawled out of their holes to stink up the air with their toxic tales. One of such noxious fallacies is that Governor Ifeanyi Okowa is Chief James Ibori’s political godson. How rancid and insipid can some...
Amid speculations that he may be running for President in 2023, Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele on Monday said his focus was on solving macroeconomic challenges, including fighting inflation. Banners of Mr Emefiele as a presidential candidate has flooded parts of the country, suggesting he might be interested in...
Senator Chimaroke Nnamani (PPD-Enugu) has said that Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi brought him back to political limelight in the state after 15 years as governor. Nnamani, who represents Enugu East Senatorial District, stated this during the PDP campaign in Nkanu West for Feb. 23 2022 Local Government Elections in the...
The Students Union Government (SUG) at the Federal University, Birnin Kebbi, has urged politicians not to drag students into their political calumny and machinations in the state. The President of the union in the university, Mohammed Mohammad, said in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday while briefing newsmen, that some politicians...
The National leader of the All Progressive Party (APC), Bola Tinubu, on Saturday paid condolence visit to Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on the recent deaths of two prominent traditional rulers and a former Governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports...
A former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika (rtd.), said that he joined politics to be able to contribute his quota as a former security chief toward the peace, security and unity of the country. Ihejirika said this at a news conference in his Ovim country home...
Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki believes Nigeria’s political system has failed the nation. According to him, the kind of politics played in 1999 is no longer relevant as young people are set to take over. The Governor made the comments during a Peoples Democratic Party stakeholders meeting in Benin-City...
Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida has described Vice-President Yemi Osibanjo as a good man with good intentions about the country. The former leader disclosed this on Thursday when Osibanjo Grassroot Organization visited him in his residence in Minna. “I know the Vice-president very well. He is a good...
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians and the international community of free and fair elections in 2023 general elections, and peaceful transfer of power. Mr Femi Adesina, the president’s spokesman in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said the president gave the assurance in his remark at a Virtual...
The National Chairman-Elect, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, has said the outgoing National Working Committee (NWC), has justified the vision of the party’s founding fathers. Ayu stated in his remarks at a valedictory session, organised for the outgoing NWC of the party on Wednesday, at the party’s...
Sudan’s military will exit politics after elections scheduled for 2023, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan told Reuters in an interview on Saturday, adding that the deposed former ruling party would have no role in the transition. Following a military takeover led by Burhan in late October that upended Sudan’s transition...
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has called on Nigerian youths to make their numbers count and not be political spectators in the country’s 2023 general elections and democratic processes. Mr Onogwu Muhammed, Chief Press Secretary to Bello in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja said the governor made...