Amidst rumour of defection to All Progressives Congress (APC) by Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State, the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has collapsed its structure into the ruling party. At a leadership caucus meeting held at the Oke Fia Government House in Osogbo, Osun State capital on Saturday, the party leadership promised to move with the Governor to wherever he would be going, even as it passed a vote of confidence...

Mr. Okechukwu Akaneme, former President of the Onitsha Chamber of Commerce, brutalized by agents of the Anambra State Government at his home in Onitsha, has died. Precisely on October 11, 2024, Mr. Akaneme was at home in Onitsha when revenue agents working for the Anambra State Waste Management Agency – ASWAMA in the early hours of the morning came for levy enforcement and in that process broke his spinal cord and thereafter abandoned him and...

The House of Representatives has proposed a constitutional amendment that would reserve seats for women and Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in the National Assembly. If the plan sails through, 83 new seats will be added: 55 in the House of Representatives and 28 in the Senate, exclusively for women. This would raise the number of seats in the House from 360 to 415, and the total number of seats in the National Assembly from 469...

Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, has identified poverty, insecurity, unemployment, basic education, infrastructure, and power generation as key factors hindering the development of Northern Nigeria. Governor Sani stated this when the leadership of the Board of the North West Development Commission, NWDC, led by its chairman, Hon. Lawal Samaila Yakawada, paid him a courtesy visit at Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, Kaduna. The Governor, who wrote on his verified Facebook, said: “We aim to confront broader...