The Grundnorm

The Group Managing Director, Sahara Group, Kola Adesina, has urged the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to critically examine all presidential aspirants seeking his endorsement for their candidacy ahead of the 2023 presidential election.

The Chairman and Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig Gen Buba Marwa (rtd) has written a letter to the Chairman of the All Progressive Congress APC, Sen Abdullahi Adamu, requesting that officials of the NDLEA be given access to conduct drugs integrity tests for […]

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Monday marked six residential houses and one plaza belonging to the embattled former Intelligence Response Team leader, Abba Kyari, in Maiduguri as being under investigation.

The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor-Kalu, has said that he did not drop his 2023 presidential ambition, as reported by some sections of the media. He said he would contest the presidential ticket of the All Progressive Congress if the party zoned it to the South-East. […]

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party said on Tuesday that all those who had purchased the presidential forms were free to contest its presidential ticket regardless of zones. The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Debo Ologunagba, said this during a chat with The PUNCH while responding to […]

The chief whip of the Senate, Chief Orji Uzor-Kalu, has stated that he would stay away from the 2023 presidential contest if the All Progressive Congress fails to zone her presidential ticket to the South-East geo-political zone. He said in the absence of such zoning, he would seek […]

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will on Tuesday evening host several members of the All Progressives Congress leadership in an Iftar dinner at the State House, Abuja.

The Supreme Court has voided the participation of Andy Uba in the last governorship election in Anambra State as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

A former Minister of Aviation, Alabo Graham-Douglas, who served under the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida in 1999, is dead. He was said to have died at a private hospital in Abuja on Monday at the age of 82.

Some former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors yesterday denounced the consensus candidacy being promoted by four presidential aspirants of the party. They argued that such an idea was capable of causing disunity that could affect the opposition party’s chances of winning next year’s elections.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested Chief Afam Ukatu, who it described as the billionaire drug baron behind the N3bn tramadol deal involving a suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police and former leader of the Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari.

There are strong indications that the All Progressives Congress may disqualify political appointees contesting the 2023 elections who have not resigned their appointments. The PUNCH, on Monday, gathered that the party would not risk being disqualified by fielding political appointees in contravention of Section 84 (12).

The Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association, Ado Ekiti Branch, Adeyemi Adewumi, on Monday made case for total independence of the Judiciary by weaning them from dependence on the Executive in terms of appointment and finance to avoid arbitrariness and domination.

There is a suit against the minister on the award of contracts for Cargo tracking. The court declined the request on the grounds that it can no longer lawfully sit as an Easter vacation court to adjudicate the matter.

A Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Festus Ogun, has filed a suit against the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) at the Federal High Court in Lagos over the excessive hardship Nigerians went through as a result of the fuel scarcity experienced earlier this year. In the suit, numbered FHC/L/CS/743/22, […]