APC wins Majority Seats in Senate
The ruling All Progressives Congress has won 62 out of 109 seats in the Senate. The People’s Democratic Party has 37 seats and the Young Progressives Party secured one. Although…
CCT defers rulings on jurisdiction to try Onnoghen
The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) yesterday deferred rulings on two separate motions filed by the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen. The motions are challenging the…
INEC Announces Dates For Supplementary Elections in Benue, Plateau and Bauchi, Sokoto, Kano & Adamawa
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will conduct supplementary election in on 23 March in Sokoto, Kano, Adamawa, and three other states where the March 9 elections are deadlocked. The…
Nigeria 2019: Notes from the field
Whoever came up with the wise saying that Nigerian politics is dirty deserves an award for perspicacity. I have just returned from that dirtied, muddled up, confused, uncertain, unpredictable zone…
Pius Adesanmi: The Sun Sets At Noon!
I was contemplating on what to write this week when the news of the crash of an Ethiopian Airline flight popped in. As is usual with such tragic news, shock…
US, EU decry election management in Nigeria, urge reforms
Two authoritative US organizations – the International Republican Institute (IRI) and National Democratic Institute (NDI) have expressed regret and disappointment over what they described as the lack of progress in…
No Nigerian Carrier Operates Boeing-737 Max 8 – Aviation Minister
Amid mounting global concerns over the safety of the state-of-the-art Boeing-737 Max aircraft that crashed and killed all 157 passengers and crew in Ethiopia on Sunday, the Minister of State…
PDP cries foul over INEC’s inconclusive polls in 0pposition strongholds
A major controversy has erupted over the seemingly rampant declaration of elections as inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in States considered as strongholds of the opposition in…
Kaduna PDP rejects El-Rufai’s victory, cites fraud in six LGAs
Alhaji Isah Ashiru, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Kaduna has rejected the outcome of the election, in which he lost to Gov. Nasir El-Rufai, of the All…
Protests in Port Harcourt over Vote Suspension
Several thousand people yesterday protested against the suspension of governorship elections in the volatile Rivers state following widespread disruption to the vote, as international monitors criticized violence at polling stations…