Politics

BRAZIL PROTESTS US DEPORTATION OF 88 CITIZENS IN HANDCUFFS Brazilian officials demanded that U.S. agents remove handcuffs from a group of deportees flown to Brazil on Friday. A prominent minister in President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s administration condemned the practice as a “blatant disrespect” for the rights of Brazilian citizens, Reuters reports. Acting on orders from Justice Minister Ricardo …

TROUBLE IN LAGOS GAC: ADEFUYE, OBANIKORO CLASH OVER OBASA’S IMPEACHMENT A member of the Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC), Musiliu Obanikoro, has strongly criticized the statement made by his colleague, Anthony Adefuye, expressing support for the impeached Speaker of the Lagos House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa. In the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, the highest decision-making body is …

PDP, A DIVIDED HOUSE AS 11 NWC MEMBERS MOVE AGAINST DAMAGUM, ANYANWU The uneasy calm within the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) reached its height at the weekend as 11 out of the 17 members of the party leadership disowned the Acting National Chairman, Amb. Umar Damagum, and the embattled National Secretary, Sen. Samuel Anyanwu. …

WHERE IS DANIEL BWALA?Remember him? The enigmatic Daniel Bwala, where art thou? It’s been a while since we’ve seen the firebrand spokesperson in his usual elements, waxing lyrical about the virtues of his principal. But, alas, those were the days when he was the symbolism of the former President Atiku Abubakar campaign. His razor-sharp tongue during the campaign to stop …

ENUGU APC’S MULTIPLE LAWSUITS MAY RESULT IN NO CANDIDATES FOR UPCOMING GENERAL ELECTION omrade A.C. Ude, the pioneer Deputy State Chairman and Main Stream Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State, has been at the centre of a leadership dispute rocking the party. According to Ude, he was the authentic winner of the chairmanship position in the …

HOW IMPEACHED LAGOS SPEAKER OBASA HID TWO MACES TO BLOCK IMPEACHMENT WHILE ABROAD Impeached Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, had pleaded with President Bola Tinubu to have his impeachment nullified, SaharaReporters has learnt. Meanwhile, his loyalists are planning a lavish welcome party for him, sources told SaharaReporters. Obasa was impeached earlier this month for gross …

I REMAIN LAGOS ASSEMBLY SPEAKER – MUDASHIRU OBASA Impeached Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has insisted that he remains the rightful speaker of the assembly based on constitutional provisions. Obasa made th we declaration on Saturday in Ikeja GRA during a welcome event organized in his honour by supporters from Agege, Alimosho, and Kosofe local government …

APC GOVT CAUSING PREMATURE DEATH OF POLITICIANS – SOWORE Activist politician, Omoyele Sowore, has blamed the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal government for the premature death of politicians in Nigeria. Sowore said the APC’s poor governance and policies are responsible for the premature deaths of Nigerian politicians. He disclosed this during a consultative meeting between the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, …

ANALYSIS: AS INEC PHASES OUT PVC, CAN NIN BE AN ALTERNATIVE? The introduction of the PVC and smartcard readers in 2015 piloted the integration of technology into Nigeria’s electoral system. Nigeria’s electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), plans to gradually phase out the permanent voter card (PVC) as the sole means of identification for voter accreditation on Election …

KWANKWASO, ADELEKE SET TO REJOIN APC President Bola Tinubu may have commenced restructuring of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC) to pave the way for former Kano State governor, Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, to rejoin the party. A source in the APC confirmed that President Tinubu’s appointment of the party’s national chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, as board chairman …