Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, 2019 Presidential Candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP), has called for electoral reforms to strengthen democracy, drive economic development, and progress in Nigeria. Moghalu who is also the Convener, To Build A Nation (TBAN) initiative, made the call in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Friday as the nation celebrated Democracy Day on June 12. According to him, for democracy to have real...

Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra has described late Moshood Abiola as a national in the mould of foremost Nigerian nationalist, late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe. Obiano said the recognition of June 12, the date Abiola won a national election cross ethnic, regional and religious divide by the federal government, was most deserving. The governor said this in a statement signed by Mr C-Don Adinuba, Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment in Awka on Friday. According to...

The second term ambition of Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, appears to have ended as the committee set up by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to screen aspirants who would contest in the primary election of the party and eventually represent the party in the gubernatorial election, disqualified the governor and two other aspirants, on Friday. The screen committee also disqualified Chris Ogiemwonyi and Matthew Iduoriyekenwen. The panel while submitting its findings to the National...

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that his administration remains unshaken in its decision to protect lives and properties in the country and as well ends the insurgency and banditry troubling the country. Buhari said this during his speech in commemoration of the country’s Democracy Day celebration in Abuja on Friday. He reiterated that his administration is committed to protect on-shore and off-shore oil installations, secure our territorial waters and ends piracy in the Gulf...

The politics of the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Hammed Tinubu, is more technical than what people might be seeing. His silence over the disagreement between the National Chairman of the APC and the Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, could be a strategy to test the popularity and who is more loyal to the party between them. Although Oshiomhole appears to be Tinubu’s ally from the look of things,...