The situation birthed the infamous APC Tokan tokan populated by members of the party who were in support of the presidential ambition of Fayemi while those rooting for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu were ostracized. When Dr. Kayode Fayemi was riding high as the governor of Ekiti State and Chairman of Nigeria’s Governors’ Forum, the…
President Buhari on Friday asked Nigerians that felt hurt “so much” by his actions to pardon him, because “we are all humans.” The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has knocked President Muhammadu Buhari, for asking Nigerians that feel hurt by his (Buhari’s) actions or policies to pardon him because he…
President Muhammadu Buhari has said he is ready to welcome the “president-elect”, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to the State House, Abuja, by May 29 when he (Buhari) would have completed an eight-year spell in government. Buhari said this on Friday morning while exchanging Eid greetings in a phone call to mark the end of the Muslim…
Osinbajo said this on Monday at the maiden “Policy Making and Good Governance Lecture Series” of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Jos, Plateau State. Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, has stated that it is possible for Nigeria to conquer ethnic and religious prejudices as they are crucial issues in building a unified nation….
Nweke, a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, was tortured to death by suspected political thugs during the March 18 governorship and House of Assembly elections in Ebonyi State. The Ebonyi State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has arrested a Labour Party House of Assembly aspirant for Ezza North Constituency, Leonard Kelechi Nwali and…
GovIndex Leadership Empowerment and Development Foundation, has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to provide the complete 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019 and 2023 presidential election results for the 774 local government areas in the country within 20 working days or be prepared to face the consequences. The group in a letter to INEC…
The presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi was last Friday, allegedly delayed and questioned by some immigration officials in London, United Kingdom, according to one of the LP flagbearer’s former aides. Obi was said to have been detained for hours, after his British Airways plane landed in Heathrow Airport on Friday morning, over…
Terrorists, locally known as bandits, have kidnapped the traditional chief of Chida community in Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, John Kwayidami, and 13 residents of the community. The gunmen who stormed the community last Thursday shot an 18-year-old boy named Solomon in the leg while attempting to flee. Ishaya Musa, a…
SaharaReporters had in September 2008 broken the story that facts emerged that Tinubu may have been involved in a white heroin trafficking network which operated in Chicago and some parts of Indiana and led by one Adegboyega Mueez Akande between 1988 and 1993. Uberfacts, an online web service and app that provides people with random facts…
In a statement issued on Friday titled, ‘Fascism On Course’, Soyinka said the “seeds of seeds of incipient fascism in the political arena have evidently matured”. Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has said the recent attacks against him justify his earlier position that the Labour Party was taking the direction of fascism. In a statement…