Musa Wada
Engineer Musa Wada, the younger brother of the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Captain Idris Wada, has emerged the flag bearer of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.
Musa scored 748 votes to defeat his closest rival, … Read the rest
Dino Melaye
The factional Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress in Kogi State, Abdulahi Bello, has described the Friday’s sacking of the senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, as a welcome development.
Speaking with the Press on Friday in Lokoja, Bello … Read the rest
The Peoples Democratic Party has suspended Ndudi Elumelu, the factional minority leader of the House of Representatives.
The PDP made this known on Friday evening in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.
The party also suspended Lynda … Read the rest
A former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has called on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to punish Senator Elisha Abbo for assaulting a woman in a shop.
This is coming less than an hour after the Senate set up … Read the rest
Reuben Abati
The 2019 general election in Nigeria has been described by international and local observers, stakeholders, direct participants and the electorate themselves as a “disappointment”, “ a bad day for democracy”, “a step back from whatever Nigeria may have achieved since … Read the rest
Abimbola Adelakun
Shortly after President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in in 2015, I visited an elderly man, and we got talking about the country. Readers will recall that the first three months after Buhari became President, there was such stable power supply … Read the rest
Africa’s most populated country and the world’s 26th largest economy is heading for a meltdown as a direct result of envy politics.
It was an election between a multimillionaire pro-business candidate seen as part of the establishment and a … Read the rest
The North has made its choice with the election of General Muhammadu Buhari for another four years. The difference between Buhari’s votes and those of Atiku Abubakar is 3,928,869. Out of that figure, the South West’s contribution is 259,780. What … Read the rest
Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai’s ludicrously impotent threat that citizens of foreign powers who intervene in Nigeria’s internal affairs “would go back in body bags” and his duplicitous attempt to explain away the homicidal signification of the trope of“body bags” … Read the rest
YOU don’t have to be enamored with Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s politics to concede that he is, for now, the nonpareil political hegemon of Nigeria’s Southwest. Sure, his hegemonic hold over the region’s political space isn’t total and unchallenged, but … Read the rest
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