Politics

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it is aware of the vote-buying tricks politicians are planning to use during the general election. Speaking on Monday at the presentation of the Voter Register for the election, Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC chairman, said the commission has received credible information about vote-buying. “In some instances, telephone numbers […]

Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transport, was among dozens of All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders inaugurated into the Presidential Campaign Council of the party in Abuja on Monday.  This is despite the emergence of leaked audios during which the former Rivers Governor, among others, criticised Buhari as someone who “doesn’t care” and “doesn’t listen to anybody”.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it does not plan to remove Amina Zakari as head of the collation centre committee for the general election. The commission also denied claims that by heading the committee, Zakari will be involved in the collation of results. INEC announced Zakari as the head of the committee on

As the 2019 election draws nearer, the wife of the President, Aisha Buhari has, in a photo, struck a 4+4 pose just like her husband, President Muhammadu Buhari, did while presenting the 2019 budget at the joint session of the national assembly. The pose indicates desire for another four years in government, having ran a

Tunde Bakare, serving overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly (LRA), says he has told President Muhammadu Buhari that he (Bakare) will become the 16th president of Nigeria. Bakare said President Buhari is the 15th president or head of state of the country, suggesting that he (Bakare) will be the next president of the Federal Republic

Ejike Mbaka, spiritual director of adoration ministry, has endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term bid. Mbaka gave his endorsement in a New Year message to Nigerians. The Catholic priest said Nigeria has not had president who has undertaken agricultural programmes like Buhari. He said Buhari has addressed the herdsmen clashes between herdsmen and farmers and

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), a Fulani Socio-cultural group, has endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari as the sole presidential candidate of the association in the 2019 general election. The National President of the Association, Alhaji Muhammadu Kirowa, announced this at the 2018 Annual General Meeting of MACBAN, held at the International Women

The Peoples Democratic Party’s [PDP] candidate in the 2019 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, is showing early signs of depression, the ruling All Progressives Congress [APC] has said. The ruling party claimed that the depression was why Atiku had been attacking the APC and President Muhammadu Buhari. Atiku had on Wednesday while reacting to Buhari’s claim

The President of the senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Wednesday, spoke ill of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. In his statement hours after President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2019 budget, Saraki opined that Nigerians have witnessed stunted growth in their respective businesses, lost their jobs during the recent recession and lost innocent citizens to insurgency

Jimi Agbaje, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos,has likened Bola Tinubu, chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to the biblical Pharaoh of Egypt. Agbaje made the comparison in reaction to Tinubu’s mockery of his stance that Lagos state needs from Alphabeta consulting. Tinubu had on Monday urged Agbaje to learn