Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Tuesday night remained in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), as his lawyer, A.U. Mustapha (SAN), intensified efforts to secure his release on bail. Naija News reports that El-Rufai ...
Spokesman of the House of Representatives, Hon Akin Rotimi has stated that the transmission of election results electronically is mandatory. Rotimi made this confirmation on Tuesday during an interview on Arise Television monitored by DAILY POST. He further said that ...
Former Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Political Matters, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has said that Tinubu will make the worst president if he returns to power in 2027. Baba-Ahmed made this remark on Tuesday during an interview on Channels Television’s ...
A member of the House Committee on Electoral Affairs, Fred Agbedi, has stated that disruptions during the deliberations on the Electoral Act Amendment were caused by the denial of members’ rights to be heard. Speaking during an appearance on Channels ...
Former Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Akin Osuntokun, has revealed why ex-Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, is bitter about the National Security Adviser, NSA, Nuhu Ribadu. Speaking in an interview on Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’ on Tuesday, ...
Politics Nigeria has finally obtained the names of 15 senators who voted FOR mandatory real-time transmission clause. 1) Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP, Kogi Central) 2) Enyinnaya Abaribe (ADC, Abia South) 3) Abdul Ningi (PDP, Bauchi Central) 4) Aminu Tambuwal (PDP, Sokoto ...
President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday wrote to the Nigerian Senate to seek the confirmation of his nomination of Retired Admiral Jamila Abubakar, as National Commissioner representing Adamawa at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Tinubu’s request was contained in a ...
The Police Force, on Tuesday, fired teargas at protesters who stormed the National Assembly to express their grievances against the Senate’s approval of both electronic transmission and manual collation of election results in the ongoing Electoral Act amendment. Naija News ...
The Nigerian government, through the Federal Ministry of Health, has directed the immediate disengagement of directors who have spent eight years or more in the directorate cadre. Those affected include directors in the ministry, federal hospitals and affiliated agencies, according ...
Former ministers Oby Ezekwesili and Solomon Dalung as well as activist Omoyele Sowere, on Tuesday, joined protesters at the National Assembly to demand passage of mandatory real-time electronic transmission of election results from polling units to IRev portal. Addressing journalists ...
The only opposition member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Osafile Stella, has disclosed that she has faced ridicule over her decision to defect from the Labour Party to the African Democratic Congress, ADC, rather than align with the ...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, says he will support only candidates that support President Bola Tinubu’s re-elction, irrespective of political party in the FCT area councils’ election scheduled for February 21. Wike stated this during Sen. ...
The Office of the National Security Adviser has dismissed claims that it imported a dangerous chemical known as thallium sulphate from Poland. The reaction came after former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-rufai, disclosed on that opposition figures had received information ...
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has dismissed allegations linking the group to terrorism and mass violence, insisting that such claims are unfounded and damaging to its reputation. National President of the association, Baba Othman Ngelzarma, stated ...
At least two people were killed and six others injured during a violent attack by bandits on Unguwar Na Ma’u community in Kakumi Ward, Bakori Local Government Area of Katsina State. In addition, a significant number of cattle and other ...