The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike contributed to the victory of the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in Rivers State. There is a report that the crisis rocking the Rivers State chapter of the APC has deepened as the state coordinator of Tinubu/Shettima Grassroot Independent Campaign Council (GICC) in Rivers State, Augustine Wokocha said that Governor Wike did not play...

In respect of the currency redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Supreme Court of Nigeria has declared that the old Naira notes remain legal tender in the country till December 31, 2023. The apex court made the pronouncement in a suit instituted by Attorneys General of Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara States, challenging the Naira Redesign policy of the Federal Government. Other states joined in suit by the Supreme Court upon their...

A Yoruba group, Yoruba Global Council (YGC) has charged Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, president-elect and his vice president-elect, Senator Kashim Shettima to embark on a reconciliation move to unite all the ethnic groups and restructure the country, In a press statement by the spokesperson and general secretary of YGC, Professor Lere Amusan and Prince Segun Akanni, respectively, urged Tinubu to ensure that his administration must be impartial when allocating resources and appointments. The group also charged...

Six states have approached the Supreme Court challenging the outcome of presidential and National Assembly elections conducted on February 25, 2023. The states that dragged the Federal Government before the court are Adamawa, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, and Sokoto. Attorneys General of the six states jointly sues the Attorney General of the Federation as the sole respondent. According to the plaintiffs in the suit filed by their lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, SAN that the agents and...

The former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, has told the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to postpone the governorship and House of Assembly elections taking place in March 11th pending when the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and the server will start working to ensure electronic transmission of election results The PDP chieftain spoke on Arise TV on Thursday and carpeted INEC...

King West, the son of the chairman of the Lagos State Parks Management Committee, MC Oluomo, has taunted the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) over his defeat at the presidential polls. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday morning declared Bola Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the presidential election after polling the highest number of votes to defeat his strong rivals from the Peoples...

Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, the former Governor of Anambra State, has warned that there will be doom if Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general elections and the president – elect in the just concluded presidential election is sworn in as Nigeria’s president, even as he insists that the former Lagos State Governor will not be sworn. The former Anambra State Governor spoke on Arise TV on Thursday, where...

YIAGA Africa berates the Independent National Electoral Commis­sion’s (INEC), stressing that announcement of the presidential election in Rivers and Imo States is in sharp contrast with its own records from the polls. Speaking at a press conference at­tended by officials of the United Nations, European Union and civil society groups, Dr. Aisha Abdulahi, board member of YIAGA Africa  said, “The state level presidential results for Imo and Rivers states are inconsistent with the YIAGA Africa...