Russian President Vladimir Putin has emerged victorious in the country's presidential elections, commanding a staggering 87% of the vote, as reported by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center. This resounding win guarantees Putin another six-year term in office. The exit poll data also revealed that Nikolai Kharitonov of the Communist...
Insists Tinubu has no Powers to Suspend a Democratically Elected Governor The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and indeed, Nigerians listened with dismay the national broadcast by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in which the President, in utter violation of the 1999 Constitution pronounced an imposition of a state of emergency...
The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, affirmed the Bayelsa State governor-elect, David Lyon, as the valid candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the last governorship election in the state. A five-man panel of the court led by Justice Mary Peter-Odili unanimously dismissed the appeal filed by Heineken Lokpobiri, who had...
Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday, said Nigerians deserve palliative measures to cushion the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Abubakar, in a statement, also pledged to provide N50m to a relief fund for Nigerians. The former VP’s statement read in part, “Nigerians deserve palliative measures (amid the coronavirus pandemic). To this...
The Office of the Deputy President of the Senate has expressed shock and sadness over the demise of one of its legislative aides, Mr Emmanuel Ayiweogenmine. Mr. Ayiweogenmine also known as 'Big Fish' passed on in the early hours of Monday after a brief illness. The deceased hailed from Udu Local...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) describes the President Muhammadu Buhari’s Democracy Day address as a huge and unpardonable slap on the face of our nation's democratic process. Our party stresses that President Buhari's silence on the values of democracy as well as the myriads of violations under his watch has...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) asserts that the unbridled treasury looting and extortion by the cabal in the Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) are directly responsible for the excruciating poverty and escalated insecurity being suffered by Nigerians in the last five years. The PDP says that the...
Kwara State Chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has cautioned Senator Bukola Saraki against continuation of his trademark involvement of thugs in his political activities, saying that era is gone for good in the state. The party’s statement, issued by the state publicity secretary of the party Alhaji Tajudeen...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) reconciliation committee met with the former military head of state, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida at his hilltop residence in Minna on Friday. The Committee led by former Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, were in close door meeting with the former head of state General...
says 'their defection is affirmation of our purposeful leadership' Oyetola's good governance, leadership style convinced us to defect - decampees Governor of the State of Osun, Adegboyega Oyetola, formally received on Sunday, members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who recently defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)...