Politics

Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says the 2019 elections will probably be the least expensive elections for the All Progressives Congress (APC). Lai told TheCable that his party has performed and would go on to win the elections without having to spend so much. Speaking on how the APC intends to fund the […]

Senator Ahmed Makarfi, a former Governor of Kaduna State and former Caretaker Committee Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), has formally joined those jostling for the party’s 2019 presidential ticket. Former Cross River State governor Donald had last week also declared his intention to run for the 2019 presidential ticket on the same party

Outgoing Osun Governor, Aregbesola has hinted he would be retiring after leaving office. He made this known in a tweet on his official twitter handle. He wrote; “My wife has been complaining that I have been spending too much time with governance.” ICYMI: Eagles miss World Cup opening ceremony He added that once he leaves office,

Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has placed a curse on any politician, including himself, who is planning to unleash violence on the state in order to manipulate the July 14 governorship poll. “This state deserves peace, people of Ekiti deserves peace. Anybody that brings violence to this state would come under the judgment of

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has issued a strong warning to all political stakeholders ahead of 2019 general elections. Mutiu Agboke, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Oyo state warned politicians to stop interfering in the constitutional duty of the electoral body or risk jail. Agboke gave the warning in Ibadan on Thursday, June

The Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Chief Akin Oke, has appealed to aggrieved members of the party to rescind their decision to dump the party and allow for reconciliation in the overriding interest of the party. Oke made the appeal while inaugurating the 35-member state executive committee of the APC, at

Muhammadu Kazaure, an All Progressives Congress (APC) house of representatives member from Jigawa state, has disassociated himself from the reported plan to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari. A joint executive session of both chambers of the assembly had passed a 12-point condition for the president to address urgently or face the invocation of the powers of

The Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan, has expressed hope that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) “will rule Nigeria forever”. She said this while addressing journalists shortly after the inauguration of a factional chairman of the APC in Taraba State, on Monday in Abuja. The APC in the state, like others has been ruptured

At exactly 2:31pm, President Muhammadu Buhari signed the ‘Not Too Young to Run’ Bill into, with a plea to the youths to suspension their ambition for the number one seat of power till after 2019. This was in fulfillment of his promise to append his signature to the bill as announced in his Democracy Day

Senator representing Bayelsa East constituency Ben Murray-Bruce has welcomed Dino Melaye into the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Melaye had arrived Wednesday’s plenary in a neck brace and sat at the opposition wing with members of the PDP. While he is yet to make an official statement about decamping from All Progressives Congress (APC), Murray-Bruce, on