…dismisses suit by Wabara-led BoT By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA — The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday declined to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise the Senator Adolphus Wabara-led Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The court, in a judgment delivered by Justice Salim Ibrahim, dismissed…
By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor Yesterday, President Bola Tinubu won the presidential primaries of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in style. In the party’s direct primaries requiring all registered members to participate, Tinubu amassed 10,999,162 votes while Mr Stanley Osifo, his lone challenger, trailed distantly with 16,503 votes. The party currently has 12,643,316 registered members If the…
Exactly one year after a landmark Supreme Court ruling on local government autonomy in Nigeria, 7,060,195 registered voters in Lagos State, Nigeria’s economic nerve centre and revenue powerhouse, head to the polls on Saturday, July 12, 2025, to elect their preferred representatives into chairmanship, vice-chairmanship and councillorship positions across the 20 local government areas…
…as CSOs demand enforcement of court ruling By Luminous Jannamike ABUJA – Protesters under the aegis of the Nigeria Society for Democracy and Good Governance (NSDGG) and the Coalition of Civil Society for Justice and Equity (CCSJE) took to the streets of Abuja on Wednesday, demanding that the Federal Government enforce court judgments declaring the…
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe of Abia South has claimed Nigeria would have fared better under a Peter Obi presidency. Speaking on Politics Today on Channels Television, Abaribe highlighted nepotism as a defining flaw of the Bola Tinubu administration, stating, “If Peter Obi had won, you probably would have seen a better Nigeria than what we are…
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Spotlight has fallen on Indian voters in the US presidential elections, thanks to a tight race between Donald Trump and Kamal Harris. Opinion polls in the campaign’s final days have shown the candidates running neck and neck in each of the seven swing states likely to determine the winner: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina,…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has dragged the Zamfara State Independent Electoral Commission, ZASIEC, before the Federal High Court, Gusau, over alleged abuse of electoral laws regarding the forthcoming local government election. Addressing newsmen at the party’s Secretariat, the state APC Publicity Secretary, Mallam Yusuf Idris Gusau alleged that Governor Dauda Lawal wants to use…
It was gathered that the incident occurred around 1 a.m. when people dressed in police uniforms attempted to breach the commission’s premises. Security operatives in Rivers State successfully foiled an attempted theft of sensitive electoral materials from the office of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) early Friday morning. It was gathered that…
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, said he can sacrifice his life for the right thing to be done in Rivers State like Martin Luther King did for his people. Fubara maintained that the State Local Government elections billed for Saturday must be held as scheduled, saying the State is fully prepared irrespective of police withdrawal…
