…Says any Nigerian can be FCT minister The Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has described as irresponsible, absurd, and subversive, recent comments by Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi on the person and office of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, and immediate past Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike. A press statement on Sunday by Dr. Ken Robinson, National Publicity Secretary PANDEF noted that it’s most unfortunate that at a time when every...

A former Presidential aspirant on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Nwachukwu Anakwenze has hailed move to persuade former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki to lead the party as its next National Chairman, pointing out that should that happen, a southern presidential candidate should be picked. In a statement by his Director General, Eric Oluwole on Sunday,  Anakwenze described Saraki as eminently qualified to lead the party at this crucial time and...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it Will deploy 46,084 staff for the fo the conduct of Nov.11 off-cycle governorship election in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi States. Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC Chairman disclosed this at the commission’s regular quarterly meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs), in Abuja on Friday. Yakubu also said that 137,934 party agents would man 130,093 polling units from 18 political parties  and 7,841 collation agents would also be on the...

The Nigerian government has said that countries with strict travel policies for Nigerian nationals will henceforth face the same measures in Nigeria. “You charge me $100 for a visa, I will charge you $100 for a Nigerian visa,” Nigeria’s Minister of Interior Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo said on Thursday. “If you give me a visa on arrival, I’ll give it to you. If you say the condition for me to enter your country today is that I...

The Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission, ENSIEC, has released the 2024 Local Government Council election timetable. In a press release signed by Dr. Mike E. Ajogwu (SAN), Chairman ENSIEC, the election will hold on the 24th of February 2024 while political parties interested in the election are expected to obtain forms ENSIEC 7 and 7A for Chairmanship and Councillorship elections respectively from Tuesday 2nd to Monday 8th of January 2024. All political parties are expected...

President Bola Tinubu has rescinded his earlier appointment of Imam Ibrahim Kashim Imam as the chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA. The withdrawal of Imam’s appointment is with immediate effect, presidential spokesperson Ajuri Ngelale said, via a statement, on Thursday. 24-year-old Imam was on October 13 appointed to head the FERMA board “for a renewable term of four years, in accordance with Section 2(3) of the FERMA Amendment...