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Edo Election: It’s Esan’s Turn To Be Governor – LP Leader

Edo Election: It’s Esan’s Turn To Be Governor – LP Leader

The Labour Party (LP) leader of Edo Central Senatorial District, Chief Friday Toyin Ibadin, has urged stakeholders to ensure that a governor of Esan extraction emerges in the forthcoming election in the state. Addressing party…

JUST-IN: Betta Edu Denied Access To Tinubu

JUST-IN: Betta Edu Denied Access To Tinubu

The suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu has been denied access to see President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. New Telegraph gathered that the suspended Minister was…

Wike Makes U-Turn, Apologises To Rivers People Over Choice Of Fubara

Wike Makes U-Turn, Apologises To Rivers People Over Choice Of Fubara

Nyesom Wike, the former Governor of Rivers State and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has expressed his regret for forcing his successor, Governor Siminalayi Fubara on the people of the state. This is…

APC Drags Aregbesola To Court For Allegedly Causing Faction Within Party

APC Drags Aregbesola To Court For Allegedly Causing Faction Within Party

….Asks court to declare Omoluabi Progressives group illegal The All Progressives Congress (APC), has dragged former Governor of the Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola before a Federal High Court, Osogbo, for allegedly causing faction within…

Doyin Okupe Opens Up On Why He Resign As LP Campaign Director

Doyin Okupe Opens Up On Why He Resign As LP Campaign Director

Doyin Okupe, the former Director-General of the Peter Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation has revealed why he resigned from the Labour Party (LP) a few months before the 2023 general elections. Speaking on why he resigned, Okupe…

Tinubu Took Risk Choosing Me As FCT Minister – Wike

Tinubu Took Risk Choosing Me As FCT Minister – Wike

Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Tuesday said President Bola Tinubu took a significant risk when he appointed him to the position. Speaking at Rumueprikom, his rural home in the…

Aiyedatiwa, Group Differ On Certificate Forgery

Aiyedatiwa, Group Differ On Certificate Forgery

…Group Alleges Governor of Forgery …Aiyedatiwa Alleges Blackmail Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State and a social-political group, the Ondo State Redemption Initiative (OSRI) have disagreed over the forgery allegations against the Governor. While the…

Benue Guber: S’Court Upholds Alia’s Election

Benue Guber: S’Court Upholds Alia’s Election

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed an appeal filed against the election of Governor Hycinth Alia of Benue State. This follows the withdrawal of the appeal filed by the counsel to Mr Titus Uba of…

River Crisis: I’ve No Regret Making Fubara Governor – Wike

River Crisis: I’ve No Regret Making Fubara Governor – Wike

Amid the unending political crisis rocking Rivers State, the immediate past Governor of the State and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said he has no regrets about making Siminalayi Fubara the…

Why zoning is cardinal in Edo guber election, by Onolememen

Why zoning is cardinal in Edo guber election, by Onolememen

What is the motivating factor for joining the Edo gubernatorial race? Well, it is no longer news or hearsay that I’m interested in the gubernatorial election in Edo State. Like somebody asked me recently, why…