•Election The Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission says it has commenced the process to conduction local government elections. This is contained in a public notice signed by the Chairman/Chief Electoral Commissioner of RSIEC, Justice Adolphus Enebeli (rtd) and sent to newsmen last night. This comes barely 24-hours after Governor Simin...
•PM Sunak Britain exited a shallow recession with better-than-expected growth in the first quarter, official data showed today, in a boost to embattled Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of this year’s election. Gross domestic product expanded 0.6 percent in the first three months of this year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, noti...
Ahead of the September 21, 2024 governorship election in Edo State, political parties and their candidates have intensified campaigns across the nooks and crannies of the state to woo voters. The political atmosphere in Edo State is that of scheming, horse-trading and jostling, as political parties and their candidates are not leaving any ston...
•Oyo Council poll takes off
•Some of the contestants A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bamidele Oloyeloogun said the party will lose the forthcoming Ondo State governorship election if Saturday’s primary is not cancelled. Oloyeloogun stated this at a press conference in Akure yesterday. Recall that Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa emerged as the candidate of AP...
•Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin has secured another six-year term as Russian president, exit polls showed yesterday, paving the way for the hardline former spy to become the longest-serving Russian leader in more than 200 years. Victory for the 71-year-old was never in doubt, with all his major opponents dead, in prison or exiled, and authoriti...
•Former US President Donald Trump A Georgia judge ruled today that the district attorney who brought 2020 election interference charges against Donald Trump can remain on the case if her lead prosecutor steps aside. The former president and his co-defendants had been seeking to have District Attorney Fani Willis disqualified — a move which lik...
Governorship candidate of Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran, has identified reason the party failed to win the governorship seat in the state since 1999. He blamed it on the antics of some leaders within the PDP, who he accused of playing double standards, working […]
•Russia election Vladimir Putin is set to secure another six-year term as Russian leader this weekend in a vote the Kremlin says will show society is fully behind his assault on Ukraine. In power as president or prime minister since the final day of 1999, Putin has quashed all forms of opposition and dissent, exerting […]
•Akpata Ahead of the September 21 gubernatorial election in Edo, Olumide Akpata, the flag-bearer of the Labour Party (LP), has vowed to resist any attempt to rig the poll. He gave this assurance during an interactive session with OBIdients on X space titled “Vawulence Space: One-on-one with Olumide Akpata”, reports Nigerian Tribune. “I will do...

