August 28, 2022. Azimio La Umoja One Kenya Alliance leaders led by Raila Odinga (centre) file a petition challenging presidential results at the Milimani Courts in Nairobi. What you need to know:In the petition filed by Mr Odinga and his running-mate Martha Karua, a former Cabinet Minister for Justice and a long-standing member of parliament,…
The defects of the McPherson Constitution and fall out from the Enahoro 1953 motion for Independence resulted in several developments regarding the Nigerian Constitution. Motion For Nigerian Independence By Chief Anthony Enahoro, 31st March, 1953 – “Mr. President, sir, I rise to move the motion standing in my name, “that this House accepts as a…
A political pressure group in support of the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi and his running mate, Datti AHMED, on Saturday grounded Enugu in a mother of all rally, tagged “Charity Begins at Home.” The rally which was organised by Chief Evarestus Nnaji, aka, Odengene, a potential governorship candidate of…
By Christian Enebe “Abia Ike na – eti” – A great and powerful is beating in Enugu West Senatorial District. Anyone who cares to listen, will definitely hear the thundering sound of the great drum and the rhythmic message it utters with piercing eloquence. The drum resoundingly announces the emergence of the youthful and dynamic…
The Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, said on Wednesday there would be no going back in the push for the Southern part of Nigeria to produce the country’s president in 2023. Akeredolu, who spoke at the one-year remembrance a professor of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Ibadan, Bankole Oke, said power rotation had been…
A former Minister of Communication, Adebayo Shittu, has blasted the former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, over his attitude towards the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu. Shittu is the Director General of the Asiwaju Tinubu-Shettima Coalition for Good Governance. In an interview with The Punch on Thursday, Shittu said the former minister had…
Some members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are pushing for a probe of the party’s finances. It was gathered that some PDP NWC members are angry that the National Chairman of the party, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, has failed to give an account of some funds that accrued to the party. A…
A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olabode George, has warned former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido, against attacking Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State. It was gathered that Lamido has constantly attacked the Rivers State Governor over his rift with former vice president Atiku Abubakar.Speaking on Channels Television on Tuesday, Lamido said:…
A former presidential aspirant and publisher, Ovation magazine, Dele Momodu, has narrated what transpired between him and Senator Remi Tinubu, wife of the presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, during the funeral of chieftain of the APC, Kemi Nelson, in Lagos. Momodu, in a terse statement posted on his verified Instagram page…
Actor, Kenneth Okonkwo on Wednesday, joined the Labour Party weeks after resigning his membership of the All Progressive Congress. The actor announced his resignation from APC in a statement shared on his social media on July 11. On his Instagram feed, he shared pictures of himself with Labour Party executives in Abuja He wrote. ‘’It…
