•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’...
•Tinubu Concerns are deepening that Nigeria may be drifting towards a one-party state as the once-dominant Peoples Democratic Party struggles to retain its few remaining strongholds following a wave of defections by its governors to the ruling All Progressives Congress. Four PDP governors in the North are considering switching to the APC ahead...
•Nigeria Governors’ Forum The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has pledged its full support for the bill seeking reserved seats for women in Nigeria’s legislature. In a statement issued at the end of their meeting in the early hours of today, the governors urged members to actively lobby both federal and state lawmakers to ensure the...
•Incarcerated IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu Governors, ministers and former military chiefs are among notable personalities listed as witnesses by Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu as witnesses in his terrorism case. The IPOB leader, whose no-case submission was dismissed by Justice James Omotosho, is due to open his defence on ...
•Nigeria Governors’ Forum The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has given NigeÂria’s 36 governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, seven day to urgentÂly make public how they have spent the estimated N14 trillion fuel subsidy savings received through FAAC allocations. The organisation...
•Governors Abdullahi Sule, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq and Chukwuma Soludo Nigerians are graduÂally turning the heat on governors in the face of dilapidated infrastructure and remarkable absence of economic growth in majority of states despite increased federal allocations to them since 2023. For example, available data shows that the total FAAC re...
•Governor Abdullahi Sule Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has charged his counterparts to take full responsibility for security, stressing that the unprecedented resources now available to them leave no room for excuses. Speaking today at the 2025 Northern Nigeria Investment and Industrialisation Summit in Abuja, Sule noted that month...
No fewer than 20 states of the federation borrowed about N458 billion in the first half of 2025, our findings have revealed. This comes against the backdrop of a soaring external debt servicing burden gripping state governments, reports Saturday PUNCH. Collectively, the states spent about N235.58bn on servicing external debt within the period,...
•House of Reps member, Yusuf Gadgi A House of Representatives member, Yusuf Gadgi, has opposed calls for state police, warning that governors cannot be trusted with the control of policing in the states. Gadgi, who chairs the House Committee on Defence, spoke on Channels Television last night . The lawmaker maintained that community policing w...
•New APC national chairman, Nentawe Yilwatda The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, has said more state governors will defect to the ruling party ahead of the 2027 general election to strengthen President Bola Tinubu’s second-term bid. Yilwatda made this known today during the 12th Expanded Stakeholders...
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