SOUTHERN GOVS MEET IN ENUGU, RE-AFFIRM STAND ON 2023 PRESIDENTIAL POWER SHIFT TO SOUTH

* Calls For Expeditious Action On Anti-Open Grazing Law, Re-commits To Fiscal Federalism

By Valentine Nnamani (Bureau Chief South East, in Enugu)

The Nigerian Southern Governors’ Forum, on Thursday, met in Enugu and reviewed the state of the nation and the progress of implementation of the decisions reached in their previous meetings and further resolved, among others, that it re-affirms its earlier position that the 2023 Presidency must come to the South.

SOUTHERN HYPOCRISY WILL HELP ATIKU TO SUCCEED BUHARI

By Azu Ishiekwene

After last weekend's primary by the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) which produced former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the party’s candidate for next year’s presidential election, political leaders in the South have been hurling abuses at the North for betrayal.

Special Funds Account Story: TRACING THE MISSING BILLIONS!

By Celestine Okafor (Group Politics Editor & National Assembly/Senate Correspondent) @CelestineOkaf11

The plenary session of the Nigerian Senate on Tuesday, April 30, 2013, was almost a bedlam. Passions ran very high. Senators who spoke on the floor of the Senate Chamber, one after another, screamed with both angst and guilt. Even the Senate President (former), David Bonaventure Mark, mumbled in bitterness and spoke with subdued voice.

STAKEHOLDERS CANVASS FOR MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN TO CONTRIBUTE TO NATION BUILDING

By Princess Simon (Bureau Chief North Central, in Minna)

A case has been made for the federal government and other nation builders to reconcile traditional values with progressive ideas involving women’s participation in nation building as a significant contributor to stability and not being viewed as a risk factor.

State Assembly Election: PDP IN EARLY LEAD IN OSUN STATE

• * Urge Voters To Protect Their Votes

By Obafemi Adefaye (Osun State Correspondent, in Oshogbo)

Situation report from the 26 state constituencies of Osun State House of Assembly election has shown the Osun People's Democratic Party (PDP) is in early lead and poised to deliver all her candidates on the ballot.

State Assembly Polls: OSUN PDP CONGRATULATES ELECTED CANDIDATES, THANKS OSUN VOTERS FOR THEIR MASSIVE SUPPORT

• * Describe Murdered Party Members As Martyrs Of The Electoral Victory

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief) @CelestineOkaf11

The Osun People's Democratic Party (PDP) has congratulated all her elected candidates in the just concluded House of Assembly election for their victory at their different local constituencies.

State of The Nation: ATIKU, GOV MAKINDE VISIT INB IN MINNA

By Princess Simon (Bureau Chief North Central, in Minna)

Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the Governor of Oyo state, Seyi Makinde on Tuesday visited former Military Head of State, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), over issues that may not be unconnected with state of the nation.

State Of The Nation: TAKE NIGERIA BACK TO WHERE YOU MET IT, SENATOR DINO MELAYE TELLS BUHARI

By Sule Tahir (Jigawa State Correspondent, in Dutse)

Worried by the prevailing socio-economic challenges in Nigeria, a former federal lawmaker, Senator Dino Melaye, has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to take the country back to where he met it in 2015.

State Reproach: THE MANY AFFLICTIONS OF NIGERIAN JOURNALISTS

By Jude Eze

Of late, the press in Nigerian has been unfairly blamed by many state actors for the multisectoral tragedies bedevilling the country. Journalists are becoming scapegoats for the failings of the current regime. Pressmen are guilt-tripped at every turn. In fact, the government's stock-in-trade is gaslighting the masses and guilt-tripping the press; which are basic characteristics of despotic regimes thriving on propaganda.

State's Titles/Slogans In Nigeria: A MISNOMER OR TRUE REFLECTION?

By Eze Jude O.

At the return to democracy in 1999, the federal government under former President Obasanjo was bent on redefining our global image, reorientating our psychosocial spirality, and re-engineering our national order. Having been under the junta regime for 33 out of our then 39 years of nationhood, the government felt we should begin our democratic experiment by walking our consciousness back into what is the norm and ethos of living in a free world where people rule themselves by those they choose through the electoral process.

Stinking NDDC: DETAILS OF SHOCKING MASSIVE LOOTING REVEALED AT NASS PROBE PANEL

Chilling revelations were made on Monday at the public hearing of the House of Representatives committee investigating the massive looting and abuse of power and failure of moral authority of the worst kind, at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

Stolen Journalist: WHERE IS SEGUN OLATUNJI, EDITOR OF FIRST NEWS?

( A Nigerian NewsLeader Editorial)

Nigerians and indeed the media community in Nigeria woke on Saturday morning, March 16, 2024, to learn of the abduction of one of its citizens and the Editor of First News Newspaper, Mr Segun Olatunji.

STOP CALLING ME SUPREME COURT GOVERNOR, HOPE UZODINMMA WARNS DETRACTORS

•  Threatens Legal Action

By Desmond Ukandu (Group Politics Editor)

Imo state Governor, Hope Uzodinma, has sternly warned his detractors and political opponents to stop describing him as "Supreme Court Governor" or be prepared to face the full wrath of the law. He described such people as mischievous and ignorant.

STOP COLONIZING SOUTH EAST APC, SENATOR KEN NNAMANI TELLS GOV UZODIMMA

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11

Apparently dissatisfied with what he viewed as the unhealthy role the Imo State governor, Hope Uzodimma, is playing in the affairs of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in Nigeria, former Senate President, Senator Ken Nnamani, has advised the Imo governor to desist from attempting to "colonize" the party, especially in the South East geo-political zone.

STOP PARADING YOURSELF AS PDP NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, COURT TELL IYORCHIA AYU

By Christopher Enenche (Benue State Correspondent, in Makurdi)

This is certainly an unpleasant season for Senator Iyorchia Ayu, National Chairman of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as a Benue State High Court sitting in Makurdi, on Monday, issued an order restraining him from parading himself as PDP chairman.

STRENGTHENING LOCAL INSTITUTIONS FOR EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA

By Dr. Okechukwu Chuks Ironkwe

As I sit to pen down this week’s thoughts, I am reminded of an old African proverb that says, “If the foundation is shaky, the house will not stand.” For too long, Nigeria’s grassroots governance—our Local Governments, Wards, and Community institutions—have been like that house built on a shaky foundation. We have celebrated democracy on paper while ignoring the very engine rooms where democracy thrives: local institutions.

Strike: FG SETS UP ANOTHER COMMITTEE ON GREY AREAS OF ASUU DEMANDS

The Federal Government has again set up a 14-man committee to look into the grey areas of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) demands.

Strike: NANS VISIT PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESMAN, WRITES BUHARI ON HOW TO RESOLVE FG/ASUU IMPASSE

• * Urges Of People of Goodwill To Step In On The Matter

National Patron of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Ambassador Eze Ebere, on Monday, led a team of NANS officials on a courtesy visit to the Special Adviser to the president on Media Publicity, Femi Adesina, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, with a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, on how to resolve the Federal Government vs ASUU imbroglio.

SUBPOENA DISPUTE STALLS EXAMINATION OF ACCESS BANK WITNESS IN N110.4 BILLION KOGI FRAUD TRIAL

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-chief)

Arguments over the examination of a subpoenaed prosecution witness in the trial of former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Adoza Bello, on Tuesday, February 10, 2026, stalled proceedings before Justice Maryanne Anineh of the Federal High Court, FCT, Abuja.

Supreme Court Judgement On De-registered Political Parties: CUPP ACCUSES INEC OF MISLEADING THE PUBLIC

• * Says INEC's Appeal Against 22 Political Parties Still Pending At The Supreme Court

By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CeleOkaf11

The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to stop misleading the public over the judgment of the Supreme Court on Friday 7th May 2021, which upheld the de-registration of the National Unity Party (NUP), saying that the judgment has no effect whatsoever in the matter of 22 political parties still pending at the Supreme Court and other parties at various stages of litigation.