The Nigeria Police have arraigned a member of House of Representatives for Port Harcourt City Local Council Constituency II at the National Assembly, Chinyere Igwe, before a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on a count charge of money laundering.

Over the weekend, precisely on Saturday, February 25, 2023, Nigerians finally trooped out to perform their civic duties to choose the next President and members of the National Assembly. The expectations were very high, mobilisation was massive in the urban areas and all eyes were on INEC, the electoral umpire.

With the results of Presidential and National Assembly elections conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) out, it is becoming clear that new faces will dominate the red and green chambers.

Some days before the presidential election of February 25, 2023, I was awoken by a chat informing me of the possibility that the election may not be taking place in seven Local Government areas of Imo State.

An election observer group, Connected Development (CODE), has expressed concern over alleged manipulation of presidential and National Assembly results in some states.

By voting against the bill seeking to grant financial and administrative autonomy to local governments, as they did in the run-up to the review of the 1999 Constitution as amended, states’ Houses of Assembly have sent a clear signal about the direction of the true federalism required by the country.

Some aggrieved Taraba All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirants, say they have chosen to boycott the party’s Feb.10 rerun primaries because it is against the supreme court judgement.

The brouhaha surrounding the redesign of the naira by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the subsequent withdrawal of the old notes with the deadline originally set at January 31, 2023, has been reverberating nationwide even before the end of 2022.

Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, offered insight on why he, alongside other stalwarts, formed the party in 2014.

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, ended uncertainty over the fate of his administration’s eighth appropriation, signing the bill, containing some unreconciled and frivolous estimates, as transmitted by the National Assembly, into law.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday signed into law the 2023 appropriation bill of N21.83 trillion. Buhari signed the bill at the Council Chambers of the State House in Abuja. Last week the National Assembly passed the bill, representing an increase of N1.32 trillion from Buhari's N20.51 trillion budget proposal. A budget breakdown indicates an allocation…

We are not learning much and this is why we are sinking and drifting. It is like a mirage, you will always think it is there but nothing is there and we are not getting anywhere.