Politics

Former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi’s 2027 presidential ambition is being shrouded in uncertainty as confusion continues to trail what platform he will contest the election. Obi, who contested for the nation’s top job in 2023 via the Labour Party, is a key member of the coalition of opposition figures plotting to unseat President Bola Tinubu in the next election. …

The presidency has released the full list of 175 convicts and former inmates granted presidential pardon and clemency by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu last Thursday. The list released by Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, over the weekend, contained the names of the beneficiaries and their offences. On the list are illegal miners, white-collar convicts, …

Economic Analyst Kalu Aja has stated that there is no greater demarketing of Nigeria than removing an elected governor and replacing him with a retired general while the highest court in the country maintains silence. Aja was reacting to a statement by Dave Umahi, the minister of works, who urged Nigerians to only speak positively about the country. In a …

Seychelles’ main opposition leader, Patrick Herminie, has emerged victorious in the country’s presidential election, defeating incumbent President Wavel Ramkalawan in a tense runoff that ended years of ruling party dominance. According to official results released by the Electoral Commission, Herminie secured 52.7% of the vote, while Ramkalawan trailed with 47.3%, marking a stunning political upset in the Indian Ocean island …

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has come under criticism after he made a joke allegedly referencing the 2006 ADC Airlines plane crash that killed 96 people, including the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Muhammadu Maccido. The tragedy occurred on October 29, 2006, when ADC Airlines Flight 053 crashed in Abuja shortly after takeoff. The Sultan and other victims were travelling to …

Following SaharaReporters’ exclusive report on Thursday that the appointment of Professor Joash Amupitan (SAN) as National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has deepened the growing rift between Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Wike’s camp has dismissed the claims. On Thursday, the Council of State unanimously approved Amupitan’s appointment as INEC …

Everyone who is familiar with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s unabashed Yorubacentricism expected him to appoint a Yoruba person to succeed Professor Mahmood Yakubu as INEC chairman. However, because, as I pointed out in my September 20 column, no president, prime minister, or head of state has ever appointed an INEC chairman from his immediate geopolitical region, Tinubu’s Yorubacentric excesses had …

It took a journalist with real courage to tell Umahi what many have long known: that he has been full of himself ever since he stumbled into Nigeria’s political scene. When Umahi was the governor of the backwater state of Ebonyi, he acted like a god demanding worship. He treated journalists covering the statehouse like houseflies at best—and mosquitoes at …

Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed, has criticised some members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) abandoning the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC), labeling their action as cowardly. Speaking at the inauguration of the media sub-committee of the National Convention Organising Committee (NCOC), Mohammed said staying back to fight is what makes a man. The PDP has been …

Over 1,000 lawyers under the aegis of the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners (ALDRAP) have called for disqualification of Joash Amupitan as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The lawyers who are also staff and consultants of the National Assembly warned that Amupitan’s involvement with the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last election creates …