The House of Representatives on Thursday stepped down the debate on the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2018 currently before it. The announcement was made at the plenary presided over by the Speaker, Mr Yakubu Dogara. The motion to drop the bill, which was on Item 7 of the Order Paper of the day’s proceeding, was…

Nigeria’s former vice-president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abubakar Atiku, has promised that not less than 40% of his cabinet will be made of Nigerian youths and women if elected president in the 2019 general elections. Atiku, who is contesting the office of the Nigerian president for the fourth time, hopes…

Nigerian Senate on Tuesday urged the Nigerian government to secure the release of Leah Sharibu in captivity of a Boko-Haram splinter loyal to the Islamic State. Leah was amongst about 111 girls abducted in Government Girls Science and Technology College, Dapchi, Yobe State on February 19, 2018. After a month, the girls were released, but…

Once again, the quality of the legal advice being dispensed at the presidency has come under scrutiny. Following the recent decision of the Federal High Court in Abuja, striking out a legal challenge to Executive Order 06, the Presidency purported to commence enforcement of the Executive Order with a statement that began as follows –…

Perhaps, Adebule had no choice really. A lecturer at the Lagos State University, the Lagos APC party leadership plucked her and installed her Fashola’s SSG. From that position, they drafted her to be Ambode’s running mate. So, perhaps, she really had no choice. But in her shoes, God forbid, I don’t know if I would have…

In 2019, Nigerians will go to the polls to elect a president. Will they stick with President Muhammadu Buhari or decide that he has been ineffectual, failed and not improved their lives and choose somebody else? It is hard to say now, particularly as the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has yet to…

Chief Donatus Nwamkpa, the state Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said that President Muhammadu Buhari had addressed critical challenges in the South-East to deserve the zone’s support in 2019. Nwankpa said this on Monday at a news briefing in Umuahia while reacting to alleged media report that South-east would not vote for Buhari…

A public commentator and member of Adamawa Elders Forum, Alhaji Suleiman Baba Jada, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to prove to Nigerians that he is not selective in his anti-corruption war by directing Economic and Financial Crimes commission (EFCC) to probe his wife Aisha Buhari how she got N2.5 billion she accused her ADC SP…

The Director of Strategic Communications, Coalition of Nigeria and a former political adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr. Akin Osuntokun, has said aides of President Muhammadu Buhari, who have been frothing over the reunion of his former boss and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, were correct in the observation that this is an…

The presidential candidates of African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, and Young Progressives Party (YPP), Kingsley Moghalu, on Friday morning attacked each other over plans for the national minimum wage for Nigerian workers. Currently, Nigeria’s minimum wage is N18,000. The government and organised labour are discussing the possibility of increasing it. Already, the government has…

Award-winning Nigerian singer, Yemi Alade, has taken to Twitter to express her displeasure about the state of politics in Nigeria. The "Mama Africa" crooner with her tweet joined the league of celebrities who are not happy with the way the government is being run in Nigeria. In her tweet, Yemi talked about bad roads, poor…

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has urged Nigerians to thoroughly examine President Muhammadu Buhari and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s candidate, Atiku Abubaker to determine who will better lead the country. It implores Nigerians to eschew sentiments in making their choice in the next political dispensation, saying the country needs a pragmatic leadership that will unite…