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ADC COALITION INSISTS ON SACKING TINUBU, HOLDS CLOSED DOOR MEETING IN ABUJA The African Democratic Congress (ADC)-led opposition coalition has reiterated its resolve to unseat President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2027 general elections, as it convened a closed-door strategic meeting in Abuja on Saturday. The meeting, which marked the third expanded session of the National Political Consultative Group (North), …

SDP DISOWNS EL-RUFAI, SAYS HE’S NOT A REGISTERED MEMBER The Social Democratic Party has disowned former Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasiru El-Rufai, declaring that he is neither a member of the party nor authorised to speak for it or represent it. The SDP Zonal Secretary, North-West Zone, Inuwa Idris, made the disclosure on Friday in Kaduna during a press briefing. …

ABATI WAS FIRST AMONG THOSE THAT LED TO GOODLUCK’S FAILURE – AISHA YESUFU Socio-political activist, Aisha Yesufu has called out former presidential aide, Reuben Abati. She fingered him among those who led to the defeat of former president, Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 presidential election. Recall that Abati was Special Adviser on media to the former president between 2011 and …

TWO BUHARI’S EX-AIDES DISAGREE OVER FORMER PRESIDENT’S FOREIGN MEDICAL TRIPS Garba Shehu, former media aide to the late President Muhammadu Buhari, has countered the claims of his former colleague, Femi Adesina, on Buhari’s foreign medical trips. Shehu said Buhari’s regular medical trips abroad were not a rejection of Nigeria’s healthcare system but a matter of personal preference. The ex-presidential media …

125 UK LAWMAKERS WRITE PM STARMER, CALL FOR RECOGNITION OF PALESTINIAN STATE Over a hundred members of Parliament are demanding that the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, recognise Palestinian statehood. According to Sky News, 125 MPs have signed a mass cross-party letter urging him to take the step. The letter is reportedly being organised by Labour backbencher Sarah …

OSUN GOVT, FEDERAL ATTORNEY GENERAL AT SUPREME COURT OVER LOCAL GOVT FUND The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, has urged the Supreme Court to compel Osun State Government to refund seven months’ local government allocations to the Minister of Finance. The request was contained in a response filed through Fagbemi’s counsel, Chief Akin Olujimi …

THE TINUBU, KWANKWASO MEETING THAT NEVER HELD On Monday, media reports (not Daily Trust) suggested that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the national leader of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), held a secret meeting at the Presidential Villa. The report, which has since been debunked to Daily Trust by close aides of the former Kano …

NIGERIANS RISK DEPORTATION AS UK SCRAPS SPONSORSHIP FOR OVER 100 SKILLED JOBS Panic has gripped thousands of Nigerians working in the United Kingdom on Certificate of Sponsorship or Skilled Worker visas over the new regulations announced by the British government. The UK government, in its efforts to control immigration, has removed over 100 jobs, including skilled worker roles, from CoS …

WHERE ARE THIRD REPUBLIC GOVERNORS? Nine years after the collapse of the 2nd Republic, the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida, in what was described as a transition to civil rule programme, succeeded in conducting elections for governorship seats in the then 30 states of the federation. The elections which held in 1991, culminated on the verge of electing a …

PARTY LEADERSHIP: ASSESSING APC, ADC LEADERS Between Friday, June 27 when the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Alhaji Abdullahi Umar Ganduje resigned and Thursday, July 24, when the party chose a new national chairman, all the three major political parties in Nigeria, the APC, the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were under …