Twelve governorship candidates in Katsina state have dropped their ambition instead opted to support incumbent Governor Aminu Bello Masari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the March 2 gubernatorial poll. The state chairman of […]
Joy Onyesoh, a gender and development consultant, is the national coordinator of Women Situation Room Nigeria (WSRN).In this interview with ENE OSANG, she discusses the importance of election monitoring and steps being taken to checkmate […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate for Akwa Ibom state, Obong Nsima Ekere, Wednesday shunned the peace accord signing ceremony organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for candidates of political parties in the forthcoming […]
Three and half years after publicly tearing his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) membership card in a dramatic fashion, former President Olusegun Obasanjo seems to have returned to the party. In this article Patrick Andrew looks […]
All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Bayelsa State chapters were conspicuously absent yesterday during a meeting between political parties in the state and the Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mukan. Instead of the […]
Uche Uwaleke, is Nigeria’s first Professor of Capital Market, in this interview with Benjamin Umuteme, the Head of Banking and Finance Department at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, says the country’s monetary and fiscal authorities […]
The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) has raised the alarm over alleged plans by politicians to disrupt Saturday’s governorship election in Osun state. Chairman of TMG, Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, in a statement yesterday said investigation has […]
When President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Not-Too-Young To Run bill into law, many Nigerian youths heaved a sigh of relief. They saw it as an opportunity to actively participate or take a shot at the […]
Eleojo Idachaba Abuja Rights activist and presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Christmas Akpodiete, has dragged the party, the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), the Independent National Electoral Commission […]
I was intrigued to see that Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of APC, committed himself to direct primaries of his party for the 2019 general elections. He pushed it through the eye of the needle in […]
Ahead of the 2019 general elections, no fewer than 39 political parties including the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Reformed All Progressives Congress (RAPC), on July 9, 2018, collapsed into the Coalition of United […]
The Nigeria Intervention Movement (NIM) has finalised plans to effect the merger of some leading political parties and movements in the country aimed at dislodging the ruling All Progressives Congress government via the 2019 general […]
In a bid to finalise modalities that could put an end to money politics in Nigeria, federal government is currently on the verge of deploying no less than 17,000 special operatives to monitor the movement […]
Against the odds of allegations of PVC cloning and sale in the open market, INEC leadership assures that it is ready to shame mischief makers out to subvert the electoral process and give Ekiti a […]
The leading chairmanship aspirant for the office of the National Chairman, Adams Oshiomohle, has promised to ensure that party supremacy “becomes effective” by “subjecting even the president and other offices to the dictates of the […]
Independent Service Delivery Monitoring Group (ISDMG), a civil society organisation, has tasked political parties in Nigeria to play their roles in cleaning up voter’s register to ensure credible elections as well as help in building […]
National Chairman of New Progressive Movement, Mustapha Bala Getso, believes corruption in Nigeria derives from a warped constitution that creates room for all manners of undemocratic behaviours and, therefore, should be the first thing to […]
Governor Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa state has promised not to interfere with the independence of the state electoral body in the due discharge of its responsibilities. The governor made the promise yesterday in Lafia […]
Our attention has been drawn to the recent move by the APC-led Kwara State government in collaboration with its docile and inept Kwara State House of Assembly to ban live partisan political programmes on all […]
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, has inaugurated a nine-member Election Monitoring and Support Centre Committee, as part of preparations towards the 2019 General Elections. While addressing the committee members […]
A whole gamut of reactions has greeted the decision of the National Assembly to re-order the sequence of the 2019 elections, as stakeholder commend and condemn it in equal measure. However, the presidency has kept […]
INEC issues certificate of of registration to 21 new parties, urges them to comply to extant laws or face de- registration. Details later.
By Hassan Gimba To the casual politician, assuming we accept that all men (and women) are ‘political animals’ and some are more political than others, 2019 is still quite a way off. Hassan Gimba writes […]
By Habib M. Bello Zaria A former governor of Kaduna state, Alhaji Lawal Kaita, has passed on after protracted illness. He was aged 85. Family sources said Kaita died at Nizamieye Turkish Hospital in Abuja […]
Engr. Markus Gundiri, has twice contested governorship elections in Adamawa in 2011 and 2015 on the platforms of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), respectively. Now a chieftain of […]
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