Category: <span>Politics</span>

The immediate past deputy speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Okey Onyekanma, has debunked the speculation that he led the former governor of the state, Emeka Ihedioha, to the Assembly to plead for pardon over the ongoing probe into the alleged missing N19.68b local government funds. The ex-deputy speaker said this in an...

The governing All Progressives Congress is in a dilemma over which mode of primaries to adopt for the forth coming governorship polls in Edo and Ondo states, The PUNCH has learnt. Findings by our correspondent, in Abuja, on Sunday, indicated that party stalwarts especially in the two affected states had yet to agree on the issue. The...

A former Deputy Clerk of the National Assembly, Chief Olayide Adelami, has been endorsed to run for the position of governor by the Akoko Progressives Forum, a group within the Ondo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress. The group said it was supporting the Owo-born politician as governorship candidate of the party because of...

The House of Representatives has said the consideration of the contentious Control of Infectious Diseases Bill has not been stopped by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. The chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Benjamin Kalu, said in a statement on Sunday, that a section of the media had erroneously reported that...

The verification follows a petition over unpaid stipends submitted by 387 pensioners through the Borno State chapter of their union.Governor Babagana Zulum personally received the petition during a publichearing organized in March this year, to sort the problem which has lingered since 2016. The State Head of Service, Barrister Simon Malgwi said in a news...

Will Ondo State All Progressives Congress (APC) survive its internal wrangling ahead of the October 10, 2020 governorship election? Many political analysts in the state said the answer lies with the party’s national leadership. Although the major opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is expected to reap from the crisis in APC, the issue...

A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olabode George, has called for the unity of all Nigerians against COVID-19 pandemic. George, in a statement on Sunday in Lagos, said it was through unity of purpose and collective efforts of all citizens that the virus could be defeated. He said that using...

The Peoples Democratic Party in Kaduna State has been engulfed in crisis. This has led to the suspension of seven of the party’s chieftains in the state. Those suspended by the party are a former senator, Suleiman Hunkuyi, who represented the Northern Kaduna Senatorial District in the eighth Senate. Hunkuyi was also a governorship aspirant...

The Peoples Democratic Party has fixed June 23 and 24, 2020 for Edo State governorship primaries. This was contained in a timetable and schedule of activities signed by the PDP National Organising Secretary, Col. Austin Akubundu (retd.), a copy of which was sighted by UgamaTV, in Abuja, on Saturday. According to the document, the sale...

‘COVID-19’s effects on Nigeria’ll be devastating’ A former Minister of Finance, and later Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Olusegun Aganga, speaks with IFEANYI ONUBA on the management of the country’s Sovereign Wealth Fund and steps that can be taken by the Federal Government to address the potential economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic...