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Lone ADP senator defects to APC

Nigeria, Jan. 30 -- Plateau North Senator, Pam Dachungyang has defected from the Action Democratic Party (ADP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Mr Dachungyang, the only senator elected ... Read More


Nigerian lawmaker faults US airstrikes in Sokoto, others

Nigeria, Jan. 28 -- Bauchi Central Senator, Abdul Ningi, has faulted the airstrikes carried out by the United States in collaboration with Nigeria's military against terrorist groups in some parts of ... Read More


Judicial Reforms: Tinubu proposes virtual hearings, increases appeal court justices to 110

Nigeria, Jan. 27 -- President Bola Tinubu has transmitted an executive bill to the Senate seeking to amend the Court of Appeal Act to increase the number of justices from 70 to 110. The proposed amen... Read More


SPECIAL REPORT: Lack of press tags makes Nigeria's National Assembly complex unsafe

Nigeria, Jan. 24 -- John Okafor, a parliamentary security officer, was on routine patrol at the National Assembly Arcade at about 5 p.m. sometime in June last year when he witnessed an unusual scene. ... Read More


PDP faults court's decision halting hearing on leadership dispute suit

Nigeria, Jan. 24 -- The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted the decision of the Federal High Court in Abuja to halt proceedings in a suit challenging the Kabiru Turaki-led national executive of... Read More


Atiku speaks on son's defection to APC

Nigeria, Jan. 16 -- Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said he is unperturbed by his son, Abubakar Atiku Abubakar's, decision to join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), describing it as... Read More


Atiku's son joins APC, declares support for Tinubu's re-election

Nigeria, Jan. 16 -- Abubakar Atiku Abubakar, son of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and declare... Read More


ANALYSIS: 2025: The year PDP, Africa's former 'largest party', unravelled

Nigeria, Jan. 14 -- At its peak, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) described itself as the largest party in Africa and boasted that it would rule Nigeria, Africa's largest democracy, for 60 years. Ho... Read More


PANDEF constitutes panel to stop Fubara's impeachment

Nigeria, Jan. 13 -- The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) on Monday inaugurated a seven-member ad hoc committee to intervene in the renewed political crisis between Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers S... Read More


Ex-Gov Dickson denies joining ADC, says he's still in PDP

Nigeria, Jan. 10 -- Bayelsa West Senator, Seriake Dickson, has denied reports that he has resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join the African Democratic Congress (ADC).. ... Read More