2025

The Kaduna state chapter of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has said that ex governor Nasir El-Rufai is yet to register as a member of the party over two weeks after his defection The party also rejected the purported dissolution of the Kaduna State Working Committee of the party by the National Secretariat. Addressing a…

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed for second reading a bill seeking to stop anyone above 60 years from contesting for election to the Offices of the President and Governor in Nigeria. If the bill scales legislative scrutiny and is signed into law, President Bola Tinubu, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and the 2023…

A coalition of some civil society organisations (CSOs) has called  the United Nations (UN) to sanctions Nigeria over declaration of emergency rule in Rivers state. President Bola Tinubu had declared a state of emergency in Rivers following growing  political tension in the state. The president suspended the Rivers governor, Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Ngozi Odu,…

Secretary General of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Bishop David Bakare has appealed to Governor Ahmadu Fintri of Adamawa state, to temper justice with mercy by pardoning Sunday Jackson, the man sentenced to death for killing a Fulani herdsman in self defence. Speaking in an interview on Tuesday in Kaduna, Bakare pleaded with the…

The House of Representatives has rescinded decision on  the bill seeking to strip vice-president, governors and deputy governors of immunity. The house took the decision after Julius Ihonvbere, its majority leader, moved a motion on Thursday. The bill, which passed second reading on Wednesday, was sponsored by Solomon Bob, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)…