Politics

BUHARI GOVERNMENT HUNTED MY ALLIES AFTER 2015 ELECTION – JONATHAN Former President Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday, said shortly after his tenure ended in 2015, the succeeding administration — led by President Muhammadu Buhari — targeted several key officers in his government. Jonathan remarked in Abuja, during the public presentation of a memoir titled “OPL 245: Inside Story of the $1.3bn …

LG AUTONOMY: AFTER ONE YEAR, NOTHING HAS CHANGED One year after the Supreme Court’s landmark judgement that granted financial autonomy to local governments, the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration has yet to enforce the ruling, as state governments under the leadership of governors continue to have control over the councils’ coffers. As the third tier of government, local governments are …

US PRESSURING AFRICANS TO ACCEPT VENEZUELAN DEPORTEES – FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, on Thursday disclosed that the United States (US) is mounting pressure on African countries to accept Venezuelan deportees. Tuggar revealed that some of these Venezuelan deportees are prisoners in the US. He made this disclosure while featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today. …

GOVERNORS GET ₦4.5TRN LG FUNDS One YEAR AFTER SUPREME COURT RULING Exactly one year after the Supreme Court granted full autonomy to the 774 local government areas, the Federal Government has continued to channel allocations through state governments. An analysis by The PUNCH shows that state governors retained control of council allocations totalling N4.5tn, defying the landmark judgment that mandated …

TINUBU DIDN’T SUPPORT BUHARI’S EMERGENCE AS APC CANDIDATE — LAURETTA ONOCHIE Lauretta Onochie, former Special Assistant (SA) to former President Muhammadu Buhari, has claimed that Nigeria’s incumbent President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, did not support Buhari’s emergence as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2014. Buhari, a two-term president of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023, emerged the first …

EVEN WITH A JOINT TICKET ATIKU, OBI CAN’T DEFEAT TINUBU  —  ONANUGA Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has said a joint ticket of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, and the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, can’t stop President Bola Tinubu’s re-election in 2027. The opposition coalition adopted the African Democratic Congress (ADC) …

US TO REVOKE GREEN CARDS FROM NIGERIANS, OTHER NATIONALS The US government has announced its plans to revoke Green Card of holders with criminal histories. The warning stated that such individuals risk losing their residency status and facing deportation. This decision follows recent changes to Nigerian visa policies by the US embassy. The latest decision focuses on individuals with crimes …

DELUSION AS DISTRACTION – ATIKU OPENS UP ON PRESSURE TO STEP DOWN FOR SOUTHERN CANDIDATE Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has denied attending any meeting where he was pressured to drop from the 2027 presidential race for a southern candidate. Atiku, alongside other political bigwigs like Peter Obi, Rotimi Amaechi, Aminu Tambuwal, Nasir El-Rufai, had recently adopted the African Democratic …

ADC RELEASES NAMES OF PARTY’S STATE CHAIRMEN Members of the public are hereby notified that the National Secretariat of ADC has released the names of the Party’s State chapter chairmen and the Federal Capital Territory, as follows: Hanatu Garaba — Plateau Musa S. Shuaib —Nasarawa Adekolu O. Moses — Ekiti Patrick Obianyo — Anambra Hon. Haruna Hassan —Bauchi Otunba Pat. …

WHY US CHANGED ITS VISA RULES FOR NIGERIANS? On Tuesday, the United States embassy announced new restrictions on visa issuance for Nigerians, reducing most non-diplomatic and non-immigrant visas to single entry with a three-month validity. The move represented a major shift from the multiple-entry visas, longer validity, and greater flexibility many Nigerians are used to. The decision, effective July 8, …