Governors Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Bala Mohammed (Bauchi) and factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Tanimu Turaki were part of a crowd tear gassed by police operatives to disperse a crowd of supporters at the PDP National Secretariat today. The governors and Turaki were denied access to Wadata House by Senator Samuel Any...
•Nyesom Wike A former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party presidential campaign council, Umar Sani, has described the expulsion of Nyesom Wike and other party figures as “better late than never,” Umar also stated that the party’s just-concluded national elective convention in Ibadan, Oyo State, was legally compliant. Speaking on Arise Ne...
•Lt. Yerima A young Nigerian Navy officer, Lt. A.M. Yerima, who recently had a confrontation with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, reportedly escaped an assassination attempt this evening. Military sources told our correspondent that Yarima was trailed by unidentified men dressed in black and riding in two unmarked H...
•Wike and Yerima In spite of the viral video circulating on social media, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said that he “wouldn’t have called a military personnel a fool”. Wike said this at a press conference today, following his recent altercation with a naval officer, Lieutenant A. Yerima, over […]...
•Wike and the military officer yesterday Over 600 civil society organizations (CSOs) have thrown their full weight behind former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd.) and taken a step further to demand the immediate sack of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike over his public insult of a naval officer. The [&helli...
•The scene of the face-off Lawyers and a Civil Society Group have flayed the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike over his altercation with a military officer over the demolition of a property belonging to an ex-Chief of Naval Staff yesterday. Speaking to our correspondent, the Executive Director of the Civil Society [&h...
•Screenshot of altercation between Wike and military officer There was a heated confrontation today between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and an unidentified military officer over an alleged land-grabbing incident at the Gaduwa District in Abuja. A video of the altercation, sighted by The Frontier, showed Wike acc...
•Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike The battle for the control of the Peoples Democratic Party took a new twist on Monday in Abuja when loyalists of the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, forcefully took over the party’s National Secretariat, Wadata Plaza, in the absence of governors elected on the party’...
•Wike (C) and sons (L and R) Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has come under heavy criticism for attending the 2025 Asia Pacific Cities Summit and Mayors’ Forum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with his two sons. The development has triggered widespread outrage among Nigerians who accused the minister of using public [&he...
•Nyesom Wike The Northern Elders Unity Forum of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has launched a blistering attack on the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, and his political allies, accusing them of plotting to destroy the PDP and weaken opposition politics in Nigeria. In a communiqué issued at the end of […...

