Politics

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 …

Hon. Ugochukwu Agballah, Chairman of the APC in Enugu State, has fired back at the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) after they dissolved the state executive. In a strong communique, he called the decision “strange, unconstitutional, and reminiscent of military-style impunity.” The ousted executive, through Agballah and State Publicity Secretary Hon. Titus Ezeagu, condemned the NWC’s 179th meeting held on …

The interim National Publicity Secretary of the Labour Party (LP), Tony Akeni has dismissed claims that former presidential candidate, Peter Obi would resign for any political coalition or rival aspirant. Akeni stated that such a move would dash the hope of millions of Nigerians seeking change. He asserted that withdrawing Obi from the race “is to take away 90 per …

Fresh revelations have shown that former Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji, was compelled to resign following allegations of certificate forgery hanging over him. Presidential aides told Saturday Punch that President Bola Tinubu personally invited Nnaji to the Presidential Villa, where he was directed to tender his resignation in the wake of the scandal. Nnaji’s ordeal began after …

Indications have emerged that President Bola Tinubu is facing mounting pressure from some of his closest political allies and long-time associates to review his relationship with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. Multiple presidency sources told Signal.ng that the pressure intensified following reports that Wike’s regular monthly media briefings was generating public disaffections against the president. Wike …

The White House has accused the Nobel Prize committee of choosing politics over peace. It said this while protesting the decision to grant the peace prize to Venezuelan activist, María Machado. Announcing the award in Oslo on Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee commended Machado for her “tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle …

All is set for the formal defection of Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah, from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday, October 14, 2025, in Enugu, the state capital. Mbah is expected to join the ruling party alongside elected national and state legislators, members of the state executive, and party leaders from ward and …