The President and founder of the Oodua Peoples' Congress (OPC), Frederick Fasehun has said that that the intention of revitalising the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) was not to create disunity in the South West but to restore true democracy in the country. Speaking as a guest on Channels Television’s weekend programme, Politics Today, Mr Fasehun said he found it ridiculous when he read in the papers of the ac ...

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has validated the election of Governor Idris Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the duly elected governor of Kogi State. The appeal brought against his election by another PDP chieftain and former governorship aspirant, Alhaji Jibril Isah was dismissed for “lacking in merit and substance”. In a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Komolafe Wilson, the appellate cou ...

The Farouk/Lawan bribery scandal has become one of the most talked about and perhaps the biggest that has hit the Legislative tier of government in several decades. As there's been some quiet on the further investigations on the matter and possible prosecution by relevant agencies, legal practitioner and activist Festus Keyamo has taken it upon himself to force the Attorney General's hands to see to the pro ...

Jubilant residents of Benin took to the streets celebrating the re-election of Adams Oshiomhole as Governor of Edo State on Sunday. The residents despite the heavy downpour, danced round the city in long convoy of vehicles. Youths rode on top of cars and buses, performing stunts and chanting “Oshio Baba,” and “Osho Baba,” continuously. The re-elected governor Oshiomhole, who beat his counterparts by polling ...

The spokesperson for the Congress of Progressive Change (CPC), Rotimi Fashekun, has explained that the ‘Dogs and baboons’ statement credited to the party’s presidential candidate in the 2011 election wasn’t calling for blood-shed but a “classical Hausa idiom.” Mr Fashekun on our Politics Today programme explained that the phrase was an idiomatic expression which does not give the exact meaning when the word ...

Following the removal of subsidy on PMS on the 1st day of January, 2012 by the Federal Government of Nigeria and the attendant spontaneous social and political upheavals that greeted the policy, the House of Representatives in an Emergency Session on the 8th of January, 2012 set up an Ad-hoc Committee to verify and determine the actual subsidy requirements and monitor the implementation of the subsidy regim ...

Talking about job designation of the tiers of government,a deeper look into the functions of the NASS was the point of focus with our presenter Deji Bademosi and his panel of analysts. Is the recent probes being manned by the NASS an oversight function or a designated one? ...

Still on the third term bid saga,remember the former President Olusegun Obasanjo raised the dust of forgotten issues when he claimed that he never spear headed the bid for a third term,that it wasnt an ambition he was nursing. Now the question is should the third term matter be followed with an investigsation? Join Deji Bademosi on this issues and more ...

The third term agenda in the political arena in Nigeria has been tagged with the name of the republic's former Military head of State and later former President; Olusegun Obasanjo. The issue of canvassing for a third term came to fore again after an interview was granted by the former president to our own Olugbenga Ashiru the presenter of ‘Network Africa’ where Olusegun Obasanjo denied being at the forefron ...