Despite  some tough talk from the Senate, which threatened to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2021, Senators yesterday backed down claiming that they need to consult their constituents among other reasons.

Members of the People’s Democratic Party Caucus in the House of Representatives, Wednesday said that the real reason President Muhammadu Buhari withheld his assent to the amended electoral bill was to avoid electronic transmission of election results.

By Omeiza Ajayi Director-General, Progressive Governors’ Forum PGF, Salihu Moh. Lukman has weighed in on the debate surrounding the rejection of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill by President Muhammadu Buhari, urging the National Assembly to rework contentious clauses in the bill and forward same to the president for his assent. Lukman gave the charge Wednesday […]

Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno has urged residents of Maiduguri to give President Muhammadu Buhari a rousing welcome during his visit on Thursday. Zulum made the call when he inspected the completed Custom flyover project on Tuesday in Maiduguri. He said that President Buhari had initiated viable programmes which impacted positively on the lives of […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has received his booster dose of Pfizer BioNTech vaccine, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Like the first two original jabs, the booster shot was administered on the President by his Chief Personal Physician, Dr Suhayb Rafindadi, which was followed by the signing of the vaccination card by […]

FOR the first time since the Senate was inaugurated in June 2019, no fewer than 76 senators,  yesterday, indicated their readiness to go against the veto of President Muhammadu Buhari to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill.

THE  Centre for Transparency Advocacy (CTA) has asked the National Assembly to as a matter of urgency, override President Buhari’s veto on the passed Electoral Act Amendment bill.

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for declining to assent to the 2021 Electoral Act Amendment Bill. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday in Makurdi, Ortom insisted that party primaries were the exclusive reserve of political parties. He said that direct primaries was expensive hence only big parties with enormous resources could […]

LAST WEEK on this page, we were partly concerned with the statement of Chief Bisi Akande in his nerve-racking autobiography My Participations to the effect that the All Progressives Congress, APC, in its manifesto leading to the 2015 general elections, never promised to restructure Nigeria and indeed surreptitiously feigned ignorance on the meaning of the concept.

lSays imposing direct primaries on political parties’ll cause trouble in polity lAsks NASS to rework bill, remove direct primaries, return for assent lNASS should extricate itself from public odium by overriding  Buhari — Urhoghide lWe have numbers to override Buhari’s veto – Senator lElectronic transmission of election result target of veto  — Wike lAPC keeps […]

By Davies Iheamnachor The Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike, has stated that the National Assembly lacks the courage to veto President Muhammadu Buhari into signing the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. Wike said the development was part of the All Progressives Congress (APC) scheme to deny Nigerians free, fair, and transparent election in 2023, […]

THE purpose of the President’s trip to Turkey, December 16th to 19th, was to participate in the 3rd Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit, with an appealing theme: ‘Enhanced Partnership for Common Development and Prosperity’.

. By Luminous Jannamike, ABUJA The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), the agency of government saddled with the task of regulating the film and video sector of the Nigerian economy, is currently enmeshed in a leadership scandal, VANGUARD has learnt. The Executive Director of the NFVCB, Alhaji Adedayo Thomas, who was reappointed in […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday condemned renewed banditry in Kaduna State. According to him, the gruesome nature of Saturday’s killings in Kauran Fawa, Marke and Ruhiya villages in Idasu Ward of Giwa Local Government Area has made him particularly sad and the killings unacceptable. The president made his feelings known in a statement issued in […]

* It’s distressing Garba Shehu can’t say if Buhari has not assent the bill – PDP By Olayinka Ajayi The Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mallam Garba Shehu has insisted that president Buhari has communicated his decision on the Electoral act to the nation’s Assembly. Speaking in a monitored programme on […]