Politics

Melinda French Gates has revealed that she “had to leave” her marriage to billionaire ex-husband Bill Gates, because it lacked honesty. According to her, the lack of honesty impacted their ability to “have intimacy.” Melinda revealed this while answering questions from Late Show host, Stephen Colbert. The 60-year-old walked out of her 27-year marriage to Bill, the founder of Microsoft, …

The unofficial race for the 2027 presidential election continued yesterday, with former President Goodluck Jonathan berating Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr Festus Keyamo, SAN; and Professor Chidi Odinkalu, a law teacher, over their opposition to his presidential bid, and warned them to keep off his political journey. Messrs Keyamo and Odinkalu had warned the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, …

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of running the “most divisive government in Nigerian history” while attempting to whitewash allegations of nepotism through what it described as manipulated infrastructure data. In a statement on Tuesday, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, dismissed the Nigerian government’s recently released infrastructure progress report as a “panicked …

Former Labour Party Vice-Presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, has said that Nigerians can only have true leaders when they are genuinely elected. Datti Baba-Ahmed stated this on Tuesday while responding to questions in an interview on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television. When asked how to stop the cycle of killings in Nigeria, he said, “Only when you have the …

The 2023 Labour Party Vice-Presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, has said that the desperation to remove former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 led to the insecurity ravaging Nigeria today. Datti Baba-Ahmed made this statement on Tuesday, when he featured on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television. “I contested with the late former president Muhammadu Buhari in 2011. But ever since …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has vowed to go ahead with its elective National Convention scheduled for November 15th and 16th in Ibadan, Oyo State capital. Speaking at the inauguration of the National Convention Committee at the party headquarters in Abuja, on Tuesday, Ambassador Iliya Damagum, the National Chairman, said those against the convention were detractors, who will not succeed. …

Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has lambasted the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, and his loyalists for threatening the planned Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Convention Wike and his allies had raised a counter force against the party’s national convention, scheduled to hold in Ibadan on November 15-16. The leaders under the platform of Eminent …

Members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, met in Abuja on Monday night under the auspices of Eminent Leaders and Concerned Stakeholders of the PDP, and demanded that the party retains its 2021 convention’s zoning arrangements. They also insisted that the position of the National Chairman must remain …

Reuben Abati, a veteran journalist and former Senior Adviser on Media and Publicity to former President Goodluck Jonathan, has taken a swipe at the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, saying he doesn’t have the moral ground to speak recklessly and unintelligently about Peter Obi, Goodluck Johnathan and Nasir El-Rufai. Abati urged the minister to question his own character rather than attacking …

Supporters of Peter Obi, Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections under the Obidient Movement, have raised the alarm over what they described as an orchestrated campaign of propaganda and misinformation targeted at the former governor of Anambra state. They urged Nigerians to remain vigilant as the 2027 general elections draw closer. Obi’s media team has …