Dear President Biden, Something remarkable happened on the morning of February 25, the day of the Nigerian presidential election. Many Nigerians went out to vote holding in their hearts a new sense of trust. Cautious trust, but still trust. Since the end of military rule in 1999, Nigerians have had little confidence in elections. To vote in a presidential election was to brace yourself for the inevitable aftermath: fraud. Elections would be rigged because elections...

A group of women in Kogi State have staged a road work, advocating for a power shift to Kogi-West senatorial district in the next governorship election. The women, in their hundreds, drawn from the three senatorial districts of the state during the  road work in Lokoja on Saturday called on all political parties aspiring to succeed Governor Yayaha Bello in January 2024 to consider allowing Kogi-West to produce the next governor. Alhaja Salamotu Asabe Danfulani...

The media team of Labour Party’s presidential and vice presidential candidates in the 2023 election, Peter Obi and Datti Yusuf Baba-Ahmed, has said that there is not going to be any debate between Datti and the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka. It will be recalled that Soyinka recently dared Datti-Ahmed to a public debate following the latter’s comment in an interview with Channels TV, where he stressed that “whoever swears in Tinubu ” has “ended...

The Enugu State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has announced the expulsion of six of her members who were determined to have engaged in anti-party activities. The expelled members include a Former Governor of Enugu State Barrister Sullivan Chime, Former Speaker Enugu State House of Assembly Eugene Odoh and the Director General of the Voice of Nigeria, Osita Okechukwu. Others include Ozor Joel Mamel, Mr. Maduka Arum (Mama) and Chief Flavor Eze. However, two...

As Nigeria’s President-Elect Bola Tinubu prepares to take over from President Buhari, there are huge concerns as to the direction the country is headed with the new administration. Top on this list of concerns are; the economy, security and the country’s unity. The major challenge for the incoming government is how to fix the nation’s nearly broken economy, broken security across regions and broken ties among Nigeria’s ethnic nationalities. Significantly, the 2023 general elections appear...

… As party asks Buhari to call APC to order The national headquarters of the Labour Party in Abuja on Thursday witnessed a massive attack, as a detachment of the Nigerian Police and thugs believed to be working for the All Progressives Congress (APC) broke into the building and chased away workers. A statement signed by the national chairman of the party, Barrister Julius Abure stated that the invaders who are armed reportedly pulled down...

In a move to boost public tertiary institutions across the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the sum of N320,345,040,835. (Three hundred and twenty billion, three hundred and forty-five million, forty thousand, eight hundred and thirty five Naira only) for the 2023 intervention funds. Arc. Sonny Echono, the Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), said this in Abuja, while speaking at the Fund’s annual strategic planning workshop with all heads of beneficiary institutions....