…three aspirants withdraw from deputy speakership race, backs Kalu. The majority leader of the House of Representatives and the lawmaker representing Doguwa/Tudun Wada constituency, Alhassan Doguwa, has pulled out of the race for the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives in the 10th National Assembly. Announcing his withdrawal from the race, the All Progressives Congress, APC, federal lawmaker declared his support for Tajudeen Abbas, the party’s preferred candidate for the position. On May...

Nobody will stop me Says Obi supported them to dishonour him The factional national chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Chief Lamidi Apapa has said that he intends to go to the Presidential Election Tribunal (PET) on Friday, where the presidential candidate of LP, Peter Obi is contesting the result of the just concluded presidential election won by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The LP chieftain who was ordered out of...

United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, called the President-elect, Bola Tinubu on Tuesday to discuss the importance of maintaining the bilateral relationship between the US and Nigeria. The telephone conversation between Blinken and Tinubu was confirmed by the US Department of State spokesperson, Matthew Miller and Tinubu’s spokesperson, Tunde Rahman. Miller said the US government official spoke with the President-elect “to emphasise his continued commitment to further strengthening the U.S.-Nigeria relationship with the incoming...

On Thursday, May 25, 2023, President-elect Bola Tinubu and Vice President-elect Kashim Shettima will be conferred with the national honours of Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic, GCFR, and Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger, GCON, respectively, by President Muhammadu Buhari. The event is part of the programmes for the inauguration of the President-elect which was unveiled on Thursday by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha....

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has advocated the entrenchment of a culture of integrity across corporate and civil spaces as a way of addressing problems associated with governance, democracy and development in the country. Jonathan made the remark at the 40th anniversary dinner of the Institute of Directors (IoD Nigeria), where he also made a case for closer cooperation among African leaders, especially former and serving presidents, stressing that Africa needs such synergy, to ensure peace and...