Politics

The Federal Government has fixed a June deadline for the final removal of petrol subsidy. During a World Bank programme last week, Zainab Ahmed,… The Federal Government has fixed a June deadline for the final removal of petrol subsidy. During a World Bank programme last week, Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance and Budget planning, laid…

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Monday, asked President Muhammadu Buhari to ignore pressure from governors and sign the 2021 Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law. The NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, in a letter sent to the President, said their opposition to the mode of primary contained in the bill was “a classic case of…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has run into fresh murky waters as a faction sacks Mai Mala Buni. The faction has also attacked President Buhari over his supervision of the party. Buni, Yobe State Governor, is Chairman, APC Caretaker/Extraordinary National Convention Planning Committee (CECPC). On Monday, a unit within the party, Progressive Youth Movement, announced…

The purported presidential ambition of former Governor of Lagos state, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo and other political gladiators on the platform of the APC may be in jeopardy if the Governors of the ruling party follows through with their plan to allow one of them succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in…

The Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to yesterday’s tanker explosion that killed a woman and her grandchild in Lafenwa area of Abeokuta, the state capital. The party said the Governor Dapo Abiodun government did not need its advice to fix the road. DAILY POST recalls that the Lafenwa explosion…

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday, urged the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government to emulate the infrastructural development in states being governed by governors elected on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in order to surmount unemployment that is breeding social ills, including insecurity in the country Abubakar stated this in Bauchi…

Lokoja-Koton karfe (Kogi) Movement has said they will no longer tolerate orchestrated campaigns of calumny, against Senator Smart Adeyemi, representing Kogi West Senatorial district by one Ismail Isah from Isulun in Yagba West Local Goverment Kogi state. The group gave the warning in a statement signed by its coordinator and Secretary Mallam Umar Yakubu and…

—Other APC Members Attacked In Ipetumodu MEMBERS of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who are loyalists of the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola were yesterday attacked by armed political thugs. The hoodlums, it was gathered, invaded the popular Oranmiyan House, located along Gbongan-Ibadan road, Osogbo, State of Osun, where members of the APC who belong…

Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house of representatives, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to support direct primaries by political parties ahead of the 2023 general elections. The two chambers of the national assembly had approved the conference committee report on the electoral act amendment bill, which recommends that all political parties must adopt the direct primary mode….

Dr. Sani Abdulahi Shinkafi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has lamented that the ward congresses conducted by the party at the weekend in Zamfara State remain valid and no court can set it aside. The former All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) scribe stated that the congresses were conducted according to the constitutional provisions, saying…