The major political parties in the country, on Wednesday, insisted that the Independent National Electoral Commission must continue to conduct bye-elections to fill legislative seats that become vacant on account of resignation or deaths. In spite of INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu’s lamentation on Wednesday that bye-elections drain INEC resources, the Labour Party and the […] More
Adolphus Wabara, the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT), has challenged Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike to reveal what wrong he committed that warranted being disowned. Wabara’s remarks were in response to statements by Wike, who accused the PDP chieftain of fueling the party’s crisis and criticized Wabara’s […] More
Unanticipated system error was responsible for the glitch that affected upload of the Presidential election result on the INEC Result Viewing (IREV) during the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission has explained. The Commission said a review of the system during the upload process showed that the system was encountering an unexpected configuration […] More
The federal government has announced that the National Assembly will pass the controversial tax reform bills into law by the end of the first quarter (Q1) of 2025. The disclosure was made by Taiwo Oyedele, Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Tax Policy and Fiscal Reforms over the weekend. He said the implementation of the […] More
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has said he would have disowned the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees, BoT, Adolphus Wabara, if he were his father. Wike accused Wabara of being part of those fanning the crisis in the PDP. Speaking during a media chat in […] More
The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has clarified its stance on the recent impeachment of the former Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Hon. Mudashiru Obasa. According to the party’s spokesman, Hon. Seye Oladejo, the impeachment process was entirely the prerogative of the House of Assembly and had no influence […] More