There was heavy security presence at Osogbo City Stadium on Tuesday as Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State elects its candidate for the 2022 governorship election.

A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, sacked Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, and his Deputy, Dr Eric Kelechi Igwe, over their defection from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressive Congress.

Women in their numbers have, again, stormed the National Assembly following the rejection of women-related bills.

The House of Representatives has reversed itself on three gender-related bills that failed to pass in the ongoing amendments to the 1999 Constitution.

In the past seven years, how lawyers receive news bordering on the profession and politics has changed.Women have been in the forefront of this aspect of lawyers.Funke Aboyade of Thisday Law, was admired by many as she remarkably took the coverage of Lawyers to an unprecedented height. I […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja has restrained President Muhamadu Buhari, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Senate President, Speaker and others from refusing to implement the newly passed Electoral Act as it is.

Suspended DCP Abba Kyari on Monday pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charge filed against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Kyari told Justice Emeka Nwite of a Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Monday, following his arraignment, alongside six others, on allegations bordering on […]

The leadership crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) took a new dimension on Monday when armed security men took over the national headquarters of the party in Abuja.

The 22-year-old fashion designer, Oluwabamise Ayanwole, who went missing after boarding a Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) service, has been reportedly found dead.

Abuja Bureau ChiefThe federal government is determined to eliminate all impediments to doing business in the country, Vice president Yemi Osinbajo, has said He spoke while commissioning the Bankers’ House of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), last week.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has advised the Federal Government to either fund universities or shut them down. The National President of ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, who said this in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Sunday, insisted that government must implement the agreement it signed […]

Nigeria could spend N360bn monthly on subsidy, says World Bank The Country Director, World Bank, Shubham Chaudhuri, says Nigeria’s decision to postpone the full deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry by 18 months may cost the country over N4tn in subsidy payments on petrol in […]

The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to withdraw soldiers from the streets across the country to minimise harm to civilians.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said former Commander of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the Nigeria Police Force, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari, who was arrested for suspected drug trafficking, has not been paraded because it is not the custom of the […]

Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu says the political future of the Southeastern part of the country remains in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.