President-elect Bola Tinubu returned to Nigeria yesterday after being away for 34 days. The West African Pilot News reports that the President-elect left the country on March 21 for Paris, France to rest after a hectic campaign and election season and plan his transition programme ahead of his inauguration on May 29. Upon his arrival, Tinubu, who was accompanied by his wife, Senator Oluremi, was welcomed by a crowd of supporters and some high-ranking members...

The Inspector-General of Police (IG), Usman Alkali, has ordered an investigation and possible prosecution of the suspended Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Hudu Yunusa-Ari. This follows the receipt of an April 18 letter from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), detailing the alleged impropriety of Ari’s actions. A statement on Sunday by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said IG Alkali had directed an investigative team to work with INEC in the investigation...

Osita Okechukwu, Director General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) and founding member of All Progressives Congress (APC),  has described former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s attack on President-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s transition as political hypocrisy. Recall that Atiku, the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the just concluded general elections decried the absence of any Igbo person on the membership list of Tinubu’s transition committee. While reaction to the former Vice President’s Reacting to Atiku’s...

Says Nigerians are free to live anywhere in the country Presents gift items to them Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the just cocluded general elections, on Sunday paid a visit to Muslims in Anambra State, reiterating the fact that Nigerians are free to  live in any part of the country where he or she is found. According to him, the conviction made him as Anambra State Governor in 2006,...

The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) inaugurated last year has been dissolved with immediate effect. This is contained in a statement on Saturday night, jointly signed by the Director General of the APC PCC, Governor Simon Bako Lalong, and the Secretary of the council, James Abiodun Faleke. Part of the statement reads: “Since the campaign council began in September 2022, we have witnessed an unprecedented, relentless, and engaging mobilization of...

Ebenezer Obadare, a Douglas Dillon senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, CFR, says he wasn’t surprised that Peter Obi did not win the 2023 presidential election. Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, was one of the three major candidates that contested for the office of the first citizen. He ran under the umbrella of the Labour Party. The others are Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress and Atiku...