Politics

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 …

TRUMP PARDONS 23 PRO-LIFE ACTIVISTS WHO WERE PROSECUTED FOR PEACEFUL PROTEST President Trump pardoned 23 peaceful pro-life protesters today who the White House says were unjustly targeted for prosecution by the Biden Administration. In signing the pardons, Trump said what the Biden Administration had done to them was “ridiculous.” “Twenty-three people were prosecuted, they should not have been prosecuted – …

COURT AWARDS N100M DAMAGES AGAINST EXPELLED PDP VICE CHAIRMAN A Federal High Court sitting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State on Friday awarded N100 million as damages against the expelled former National Vice Chairman, South-East, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Ali Odefa. Twenty PDP members including executives of the party in Oguduokwor, Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, had …

TRUMP ON RAMPAGE AS US AGENTS RAID WORKSITES, ARREST OVER 500 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, DETAIN 373, DEPORT HUNDREDS The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has confirmed the arrest of 583 individuals in a large-scale crackdown on illegal immigration. ICE agents have been raiding some worksites in New Jersey as the security operatives begin the execution of President Donald Trump’s …

RIVERS CRISIS: MISSING DOCUMENTS STALL PRO-FUBARA LAWMAKERS SUIT AGAINST PRO-WIKE LAWMAKERS A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, presided over by Justice Emmanuel Obile, has adjourned the case challenging the legitimacy of Martin Amaewhule as Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, along with 26 others following their defection. The case was delayed due to the alleged mysterious disappearance …

TRUMP ORDERS RELEASE OF LONG-SECRET FINAL FILES ON JFK, RFK, MLK ASSASSINATIONS President Trump on Thursday ordered the declassification and release of long-secret files on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Trump, 78, announced the actions in the Oval Office — after decades of speculation and …