•Car owners now turn to public transportation The country’s economic crisis and soaring petrol prices have forced Bolaji Emmanuel to give up his driver and his Honda Pilot utility vehicle. He is struggling with spiking living costs, reports AFP. Emmanuel is not alone. Many in Africa’s most populous country are abandoning their cars as the [&he...
As the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party persists, the Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum and Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has charged the factional acting National Chairman of the party, Umar Damagum, to revert to the status quo. A senior party member informed our correspondent that the PDP Governors Forum has called for [...
•Atiku Abubakar A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Diran Odeyemi, has attributed the ongoing political crisis in Rivers State to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s ambition to contest in the 2027 presidential election. Odeyemi made this assertion today during an interactive session organise...
•Police operatives Some disagreements were said to have ensued in the Ahoada East of Rivers State following lifting of the three-month ban on the Local Government Area secretariats by the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun today. Ahoada East is the L.G.A of the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Edison Ehie, reports Channels TV. [&hell...
•Julius Abure The Labour Party (LP) Caretaker Committee yesterday in Abuja urged Mr Julius Abure to stop parading himself as the national chairman of the party, saying his tenure expired on June 9, 2024. Mr Salisu Mohammad, Secretary, Board of Trustees, of the party, said this during a news conference organised by the leadership of […]...
•Governor Godwin Obaseki Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, has alarmed that the continuous arrest of the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) chieftains by the police ahead of the gubernatorial election in the state is capable of snowballing into unavoidable crisis in Edo. Obaseki made the assertion in statement he personally signed on Tuesday n...
•Aisha-Yesufu The Obi-Datti fundraising team has refuted yesterday’s claim by the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, that only Aisha Yesufu and Pastor Itua Ighodalo, were responsible for managing the campaign funds of LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi, at the 2023 election. Abure had told journalists in Abuja after a meeti...
•Peter Obi and Alex Otti The leadership crisis within the Labour Party has taken a dramatic turn as details of a letter sent by Peter Obi and Alex Otti to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have emerged. The letter, dated September 6, 2024, requested INEC’s recognition of a 29-member interim committee, headed by Senator [&hel...
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Zamfara State has been enmeshed in crisis as two factional chairmen have emerged from its 2024 election of state officers. The immediate past vice chairman of the association Ibrahim Jibril was announced by the returning officer Mannir Bature as the winner of the election for the chairmanship position hav...
Internal crisis rocking the opposition, the People Democratic Party in Benue State has assumed a new dimension, with a two-thirds majority of the state working committee, allegedly loyal to former Governor Samuel Ortom, passing a vote of no- no-confidence on the state chairman, John Ngbede, the secretary, Joseph Nyam and the organising secreta...

