Politics

LP LEADERSHIP CRISIS: BATTLE SHIFTS TO INEC AS ABURE, USMAN, APAPA SEEK RECOGNITION The leadership tussle within the Labour Party, LP, took a new twist on Wednesday, with Lamidi Apapa asserting himself as the party’s National Chairman. Apapa, who made the declaration at a press conference in Abuja, cited the April 4 Supreme Court judgment that nullified Julius Abure’s leadership …

LP CRISIS: DOOR SHUTS ON ABURE, HE SHOULD HEED SUPREME COURT’S VERDICT – UMEH The Senator representing Anambra Central in the National Assembly, Victor Umeh, says the Supreme Court judgement on the Labour Party (LP) leadership crisis has shut the door on Julius Abure as the party’s chairman. Umeh said that Abure should take the admonishment of the apex court …

LP CRISIS: DOOR SHUTS ON ABURE, HE SHOULD HEED SUPREME COURT’S VERDICT – UMEH The Senator representing Anambra Central in the National Assembly, Victor Umeh, says the Supreme Court judgement on the Labour Party (LP) leadership crisis has shut the door on Julius Abure as the party’s chairman. Umeh said that Abure should take the admonishment of the apex court …

APC MOURNS SLAIN DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION, SHUTS NATIONAL SECRETARIAT The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has shut down its national secretariat, popularly known as “Buhari House”, following the killing of its Director of Administration, Hon. AbdulRauf Adekunle Adeniji. Vanguard gathered that the deceased who was kidnapped weeks ago, was reportedly killed last month. The kidnappers were said to have concealed …

WE ERRED OVER LIST OF TINUBU’S APPOINTMENTS: – PRESIDENCY The presidency has acknowledged errors in an earlier released list said to be a compilation of appointments made by President Bola Tinubu since assuming office in 2023. The previous list was released on Wednesday night by the Special Adviser to President Tinubu on Media and Public Communication, Sunday Dare. Dare was …

US FORMER FIRST LADY, MICHELLE, SPEAKS ON RUMOURED DIVORCE WITH BARACK OBAMA Former US First Lady Michelle Obama has addressed divorce rumours circulating around her marriage to Barack. Michelle also claimed that it was time for her to start asking tough questions. According to her, women “struggle with disappointing people.” “They couldn’t even fathom that I was making a choice …

NATASHA AKPOTI: LESSONS FOR POLITICIANS Politicians have a lot to learn from the embattled senator representing Kogi central senatorial district, writes MONDAY PHILIPS EKPE In just few weeks, the senator representing Kogi central senatorial zone, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has assumed a somewhat mixed image in the minds of people. That comes from a cocktail of characters either expressed herself or …

‘FROM ICU TO MORGUE – PDP SPOKESPERSON QUITS, DUMPS OPPOSITION PARTY The spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State, Kennedy Peretei, has announced his resignation from the party.In his resignation letter addressed to the party’s chairman of Arogbo Ward I in the Ese-Odo Local Government Area on Wednesday, Mr. Peretei expressed his belief that the PDP is …

SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT CTC SACKED ABURE – ALEX OTTI, SUBMITS REPORT TO INEC Supporters of the Labour Party (LP), led by Senator Esther Nenadi Usman’s National Caretaker Committee, erupted in celebration on Wednesday following the release of the Certified True Copy (CTC) of the Supreme Court judgment on the party’s leadership dispute. Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, took center stage …

NIGER REPUBLIC ADOPTS HAUSA AS NATIONAL LANGUAGE, DUMP FRENCH Niger Republic military-led government has declared Hausa as the country’s new national language, replacing French, in another decisive step away from its former colonial power, France. The national language is Hausa” while “the working languages are English and French,” the junta stated in a new charter published on March 31 in …