Just one year after it lost power at the federal level, the struggle for the presidential ticket for the 2019 election has started causing problems within the ranks of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Independent can authoritatively reveal. Read More…

The Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, says  former governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola and his Rivers State counterpart, Rotimi Amaechi, did not fund President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign. Read More…

The President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki has, for the first time, opened up on the intrigues of his ongoing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal over asset declaration issues and the role of his party, Read More…

EFFORTS by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) former ministers from 1999 to 2015, under the umbrella of PDP Former Ministers’ Forum, to reach a consensus on the zoning formula for the selection of its national officers Read More…

Department of State Security, DSS on Tuesday arraigned Secretary to the Rivers state government , SSG, Mr Kenneth Kobani and a chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, Read More…

Legal luminary and owner of Afe Babalola University in Ekiti, Chief Afe Babalola, has teamed up with Governor Ayodele Fayose in shopping for a willing judge to grant a perpetual injunction to stop the federal government Read More…

The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Tuesday night, announced the shutting down of its official and verified Twitter handle, @PdpNigeria, citing recent activities on the handle as reasons. Read More…

The Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ipokia local government area of Ogun state, Alhaji Saruku Suraju popularly known as “Aro Meta” has died in a hotel after a fling with a woman. Read More…

Several days after a rerun election was conducted in some parts of Rivers State, a nongovernmental group, the Sustainable Ogoni, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to release without delay the results of the poll held in Tai local council area. Read More…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has found over N675.1m in the bank accounts of different Independent National Electoral Commission officials in Rivers, Akwa Ibom, and Delta states. Read More…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has fixed April 25 for the commencement of elective congresses in thirty three states of the federation. Read More…

Impressed with the achievements of Governor Nyesom Wike in Rivers state in less than one year in office especially achievements in road infrastructural development, Read More…

Bayelsa State’s Governor Seriake Dickson has appointed APC members into his cabinet. Read More…

The All Progressives Congress showed superiority over its arch-rival, the Peoples Democratic Party as it emerged winners in Wednesday’s rerun elections in four Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Read More…

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) in the 7th National Assembly, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Rivers Southeast Senatorial District Read More…

The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi not to heed the call by the National Assembly to apologize or resign Read More…

Tension is building in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, over the alleged refusal of the leadership of the state House of Assembly to swear in members-elect of opposition political parties, supposedly on the orders of the state Governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson. Read More…

The Rivers State Resident Electoral Commissioner ( REC ), Mr Aniedi Ikoiwak, on Friday, said that nobody could coerce the commission into declaring results that fell short of expectations. Read More…

The Senator who represented the Kogi West Senatorial District in the 6th and 7th Senate, Smart Adeyemi, on Friday formally defected to the All Progressives Congress. Read More…

THE Rivers State legislative election rerun elections have since been held but contro­versy still trails the election that was marred by violence in some areas, leading to can­cellation of elections in such areas. Read More…

SENATOR Clifford Ordia, PDP, Edo Central said on Thursday, that if  Senate President Bukola Saraki was convicted and removed by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP would produce his successor. Read More…

There are indications that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may be at crossroads over the remaining results of the legislative re-run elections in Rivers State. Read More…

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The Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Ali Modu-Sheriff has identified arrogance as one of the factors that contributed to the loss of former president, Goodluck Jonathan, in the 2015 presidential election. Read More…