Politics

I’VE NOTHING IN COMMON WITH THE NORTH, I’M YORUBA – KEMI BADENOCH, UK CONSERVATIVE LEADER Kemi Badenoch, leader of the UK’s Conservative Party, says she identifies more with the Yoruba ethnic group than Nigeria. Badenoch spoke in an interview with the Spectator published on Thursday. The politician’s remarks come amid a simmering identity row, following her previous criticisms of Nigeria’s …

OPPOSITION IN DISARRAY Last week, five members of the House of Representatives,consisting of four Labour Party (LP) and one Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members renounced their membership of the party that gave them the platform to contest to win their seats and defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in one fell swoop. Then this week, two other members …

HOW TINUBU MUSCLED NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, BY SENATE PRESIDENT, AKPABIO Senate President Godswill Akpabio says President Bola Almed Tinubu muscled the two chambers of National Assembly with the conferment of GCON on them. Akpabio, who was the Special Guest of Honour at the Public Lecture and Book Launch organised to mark the birthday of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory …

: I IDENTIFY MORE AS A YORUBA THAN A NIGERIAN – KEMI BADENOCH, UK PARTY LEADER I Have Nothing In Common With ‘Boko Haram’ Northern Nigeria – UK Party Leader, Kemi Badenoch Replies Vice-President [i] Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, has stated that she identifies more with her Yoruba heritage than with Nigeria as a …

DONALD TRUMP NAMED TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR AGAIN Time Magazine has named Donald Trump as their person of the year for the second time. “For marshaling a comeback of historic proportions, for driving a once-in-a- generation political realignment, for reshaping the American presidency and altering America’s role in the world, Donald Trump is TIME’S 2024 Person of the Year,” …

LABOUR PARTY’S WOES CONTINUE AS GUBER CANDIDATE, RUNNING MATE DUMP PARTY The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the last election in Bayelsa State, Udengs Eradiri and his running mate, Commodore Benjamin Nathus (retd) have announced their resignations from the party. It was gathered that most of the local government chairmen of the party in Bayelsa joined Eradiri …

I STAND BY WHAT I SAID – UK PARTY LEADER, KEMI BADENOCH, TELLS VP SHETTIMA The leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has doubled down on her previous remarks about Nigeria, insisting she will not sugarcoat the truth about her homeland. The response comes after Nigeria’s Vice-President Kashim Shettima criticized her for describing the country as a …

TINUBU’S BETRAYAL OF EL RUFAI, YAHAYA BELLO ERODING SUPPORT BASES IN KADUNA, KOGI STATES As Nigeria braces for the 2027 presidential election, the political landscape under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is unraveling in ways that suggest a dramatic decline in support for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) across key states, including Kogi and Kaduna. Political betrayals, alleged politically motivated …

BLAME BUHARI FOR YORUBANIZATION OF TINUBU GOVT – OZEKHOME Rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mike Ozekhome, insists that former President Muhammadu Buhari should be blamed for the preference by his successor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to appoint persons from his ethnic Yoruba language group into key positions of government.Ozekhome, who delivered an address at a symposium on human …

DOZENS OF GHANA PRESIDENT-ELECT’S SUPPORTERS ARRESTED IN POST-POLL CHAOS Police in Ghana have arrested more than 100 people – mostly opposition supporters of President-elect John Mahama – over acts of lawlessness.Supporters of the newly elected president who want jobs have allegedly attacked some state institutions, looted properties, and engaged in disturbances that have left some police and military personnel injured.The …