An aggrieved All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant in Bayelsa State, Festus Daumiebi has rejected the result of the party’s primary election for the November 11, 2023 governorship election. Timipre Sylva, former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, emerged as the APC governorship candidate defeating Daumiebi and four other contenders in the exercise conducted on Friday and Saturday. Sylva was declared winner by the chairman of the APC primary election committee for Bayelsa, Major-Gen. Ahmed...

Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Works and Housing has dismissed the controversies surrounding the  President-elect, Bola Tinubu, noting that “those issues don’t matter”. Tinubu has been embroiled in a series of scandals lately which borders on his identity, age, academic qualifications, and source of wealth. The latest is the allegation that he holds dual citizenship. Speaking in an interview on Channels TV on Sunday, Fashola, who was Tinubu’s chief of staff during his tenure as the...

The controversy about the President-elect, Bola Tinubu has taken a fresh plot after his Guinean passport, which shows that he holds dual citizenship, surfaced on social media. On Saturday, investigative journalist David Hundeyin shared photos of a Guinean diplomatic passport bearing ‘Bola Ahmed Tinubu’ and the President-elect’s image on his Twitter page. The passport was issued in October 2015 and expired in October 2020. Hundeyin also shared a section of Tinubu’s EC-9 form — application...

Nigeria took a dramatic turn on Sunday, April 16, 2023, when the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the State Barr. Yunusa Hudu Ari declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC, Sen. Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed Binani as Governor-elect. The REC declared the results amidst tight security in the presence of the Commissioner of Police in the state, the Director of DSS in the state, and the State Commandant of the NSCDC. While supporters of APC...

…Defeats David Lyon, other The immediate-past Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva has emerged the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Bayelsa State governorship election slated to hold on November 11, 2023. He scored a total of 52, 061 votes to defeat five other contenders to pick the governorship ticket in the party’s primary election which was conducted on Friday and Saturday. The APC adopted the Option A4 electoral system...

For her commentary on Nigeria’s president-elect Bola Tinubu as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2023, Astha Rajvanshi, Time’s staff writer has locked her Twitter account because of heavy criticisms from Nigerians. Tinubu was listed among Time’s 100 most influential people of 2023 on Thursday. He made the “leaders” category alongside Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine; Joe Biden, President of the United States; Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister of Australia, among others....