A coalition of civil society organisations in Nigeria has issued a 14-day ultimatum to President Muhammadu Buhari to release Omoyele Sowore and other illegal detainees in SSS custody or brace for nationwide protests. Mr Sowore, the publisher of Sahara Reporters, was initially released by the SSS on Thursday after prolonged…

President Muhammadu Buhari's wife, Aisha, has accused her husband's aides and the communications minister, Isa Ibrahim, of not doing enough to fight fake news especially those targeted at her husband. Mrs Buhari said some Nigerians were trying to use social media to "bring down the government", and officials were soft…

The crisis within the Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress will not affect the party's chances of victory in next year's governorship election, Adams Oshiomhole, has said. Mr Oshiomhole said this during a meeting APC state chairpersons had with President Muhammadu Buhari, at the State House, Abuja, on…

A former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, on Friday joined his voice with those of many other Nigerians in condemning the rearrest of Omoyele Sowore by officials of the State Security Service (SSS). The officials of the agency rearrested the activist on the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja…

The violent actions of State Security Service officials at an Abuja court on Friday, while trying to arrest Omoyele Sowore, are worse than those of wild dogs devouring their meal, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has said. Mr Soyinka reacted to the action of the SSS in a statement sent to…

The outgoing governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, has alleged the murder of 12 members of his party, PDP, during the violence that characterised the recent governorship election in the state. Apart from the 12, Mr Dickson said, 10 other residents of the state were beheaded during the polls. According…

President Muhammadu Buhari has commissioned a new Transport University in Katsina, his home state. Mr Buhari, at the event, said the school will enhance employment opportunities and supplement the transport sector's ''dire need of new thinking, skills and investment''. The university is said to be the first of its kind…

Less than three weeks after his reelection, the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has sacked some political office holders in the state. According to a statement on Monday by the Secretary to the State Government, the affected officials are special advisers, senior special assistants and special assistants to the governor.…

A coalition of activists has accused Nigeria's main opposition party, PDP, of ignoring the harassment of journalists and disturbing cases of human rights violations by its governors. The activists in a letter written to the party chairman, Uche Secondus, and submitted to the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja on Friday,…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) said on Thursday that there was no third term plan for President Muhammadu Buhari. The party also dissociated itself from the recent legal action taken by Charles Enya, one of its members in Ebonyi State, seeking a third term for the president and governors. The…

President Muhammad Buhari has reiterated his administration's commitment to foster social and political stability in the country to safeguard the interest of investors. President Buhari made this vow at the State House on Thursday in Abuja while hosting the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Total Group Worldwide, Patrick Pouyanne. “The relationship…

The main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has denied calling for the postponement of Kogi West Senatorial Supplementary elections. Earlier on Sunday, the ruling APC, in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Lanre Issa-Onilu, said it will not yield to the "PDP's threat to boycott or cancel the…

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a 'scrupulous investigation' of the murder of a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) women leader in Kogi State. PREMIUM TIMES reported the murder of Salome Abuh, 60, the PDP women leader of Ochadamu Ward in Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi State. She was sleeping in…

The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, in a rowdy session of the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting, took a jab at the party's defectors and discussed the issues confronting the party at all levels. Friday's meeting was the first APC NEC meeting since the…

President Muhammadu Buhari says he will not seek a third term in office at the end of his second term in 2023. The Nigerian Constitution sets a two-term limit for the president and state governors, but that has not stopped speculations that Mr Buhari may want to stay beyond 2023.…

Scores of protesters on Friday demanded the removal of Adams Oshiomhole as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The protesters carried placards to the national secretariat of the APC. Some of the placards had inscriptions like “Oshiomhole Must Go”, “Ole” among others. The protesters, mostly youth, were…

The Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has been appointed by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to head a five-member committee to end the crisis rockng the chapter in Edo State. This decision was necessitated by the need to resolve the discord between the…

One early morning in November 2013, Adepoju Jamiu woke up to observe the first of the five Islamic daily prayers at Okela, a community in Ondo State. Just after the prayer, 23-year-old Jamiu ''fell into temptation''. He stole a Blackberry phone valued at N17,000. The phone belonged to another worshipper,…

The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Kogi State, Natasha Akpoti, has said that no real election is ongoing in Kogi Central part of Kogi State. She also said numerous threats to her life, allegedly by the incumbent governor, delayed her from casting her vote. She alleged…

Today, hundreds of thousands of voters will go to the polls in Bayelsa and Kogi states to cast their votes for their favourite governorship candidates. According to Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), only 889,308 (96.3 per cent) voters have collected their PVCs out of the 923,182 registered voters in Bayelsa…

Nigerians have taken to the various social media platforms to express their opinion after the Governor of Kaduna, Nasir El-Rufai, begged voters in Kogi to support the reelection of Governor Yahaya Bello in next Saturday's governorship polls. Mr El-Rufai, who heads APC campaign council for Kogi, went down on his…

The man who superintended over the controversial suspension of Adams Oshiomhole from the Edo All Progressives Congress (APC) has himself been suspended in a controversial manner. The APC headquarters Wednesday said it has approved the suspension of its Edo branch chairman, Anslem Ojezua. Mr Ojezua was suspended on Tuesday by…

The crisis rocking Nigeria's ruling party, APC, got worse on Wednesday as the director-general of the party's governors' forum called for the resignation of Adams Oshiomhole as the party's chairman. Also on Wednesday in Benin City, some leaders of the APC in Edo State at a meeting attended by Governor…

Following the reintroduction at the National Assembly of a bill seeking to sanction hate speech in Nigeria, the Action Democratic Party (ADP) has cautioned the lawmakers against "gagging the freedom of speech of the citizens." PREMIUM TIMES reported the Hate Speech Bill as on of 12 bills introduced on the…

A political activist, Deji Adeyanju, has accused the State Security Service of offering him a bribe to shelve a protest demanding the release of Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore. Mr Adeyanju on Tuesday in Abuja displayed N1 million cash he said was offered to him by agents of the SSS.…