Politics

IT’S A LIE! 2023 POLL DIDN’T REFLECT NIGERIANS’ WILL – LP, PDP FAULT US REPORT The opposition Labour Party, LP, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have expressed shock over how the United States 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices arrived at its conclusion that the 2023 polls reflected the will of Nigerians, despite widespread irregularities. However, the All Progressives …

THOUSANDS OF DOCTORS CONSIDERING LEAVING UK – GMC Factors driving thousands of doctors to consider leaving the UK have been revealed in new research published by the General Medical Council (GMC). The GMC had commissioned independent research into the reasons doctors may be considering, or have already made, a move abroad. The report, Identifying groups of migrating doctors, also makes …

US CRITICIZES ‘ARBITRARY ARRESTS’ OF GODWIN EMEFIELE, NNAMDI KANU The United States Government has criticized the arbitrary arrests of Godwin Emefiele, the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, and Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), by security personnel in Nigeria. In its ‘2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Nigeria,’ published Tuesday on …

APC SUPPORTERS ATTACKED, PREVENTED IGBO VOTERS FROM VOTING DURING 2023 ELECTION – US REPORT The United States Government has analysed how supporters of Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), attacked and prevented supporters of opposition parties, particularly Igbo people, from exercising their voting rights during the Lagos State governorship election in March 2023. In a report titled, ‘2023 …

WIKE, FUBARA, WAR GETS HOTTER AS FOUR COMMISSIONERS QUIT GOVERNOR’S CABINET Four Commissioner serving in the administration of the governor of Rivers State, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, have since resigned their appointments into the State Executive Council. Whereas the Commissioner for Works, George Kelly, and the Commissioner of Power, Henry Ogiri, had earlier resigned, the Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, …

MASS RESIGNATIONS HIT IMO PDP In a significant blow to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), over ten prominent party members in Okigwe Zone (Imo North Senatorial Zone) have resigned from their positions and withdrawn their membership. This development follows the recent renouncement of affiliation by former Imo State Governor, Emeka Ihedioha, who criticized the party’s inability to uphold its regulations …

RIVERS POLITICAL CRISIS: TWO COMMISSIONERS RESIGN FROM CABINET The political crisis in Rivers State continues to deepen as two commissioners have again resigned from Governor Sim Fubara’s Cabinet. The Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General, Zacchaeus Adangor, while rejecting his redeployment, tendered his resignation from the state executive council. This comes after his previous resignation on 14 December due to a …

WIKE IS REASON IHEDIOHA RESIGNED FROM PDP – PARTY CHIEFTAIN A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abdul-Aziz Na’ibi Abubakar, has claimed that the former governor of Imo state, Emeka Ihedioha left the party was ‘because of Wike and his disastrous G5.’ Abubakar wondered what the youths who never benefitted from the party would do when its founding members …

PETER OBI’S ROMANCE WITH NORTH RAISES 2027 PERMUTATIONS – THE GUARDIAN With his recent visits to northern communities, it appears that Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has begun laying the groundwork for a potential run in the 2027 presidential race even before the starting signal is sounded. After the Ramadan began in March, Obi …

ANOTHER WARD EXCO SUSPENDS GANDUJE AS APC’S INTERNAL CRISIS LINGERS Unrelenting, the band of party stakeholders at the grassroots have refused to back off on the suspension bid of the national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, as new ward executives in Ganduje ward, Dawakin-Tofa local government area of Kano State yesterday, imposed fresh …