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President Paul Biya  President Paul Biya of the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM), has been been declared as winner of Cameroon’s recently conducted presidential election, by the the Country's constitutional Council, which announced the results on Monday, October 27, 2025. According to the Constitutional Council, Biya won with a 53.66 percent share of the vote, while Issa Tchiroma, the main opposition candidate of the Cameroon National Salvation Front (CNSL), finished second with 35.19% of the vote. Tchiroma, 76, was Biya’s former spokesperson. Paul Biya, 92, won the election to serve his eighth consecutive term in office and will govern till 2032, by which time he will be almost 100 years old. Biya’s win raises concerns of increased unrest in the French-speaking Central African country. The president is rarely seen in public and is known for spending time outside Africa in Swiss hotels. His long absences, sandwiched with an advanced age, have birthed multiple death ...

Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has called for a stronger partnership between the executive and legislative arms of government to reposition Nigeria’s automotive industry for global competitiveness. The governor made the call on Monday while declaring open the retreat of the House of Representatives Committee on Industry and the National Automobile Design and Development Council (NADDC), held in Asaba. He was represented by his Chief of Staff, Hon. Johnson Erijo. Speaking on the theme, “Building a Global Competitive Automotive Sector in Nigeria through Effective Executive–Legislative Partnership,” Governor Oborevwori commended the organisers for their foresight, describing the retreat as timely and strategic in the nation’s quest to diversify its economy and revive industrial production. According to him, the automotive sector remains a key driver of economic growth, innovation, and job creation globally, citing examples from Europe and the United States where the in...

The Joint Committee of the National Assembly on the Review of the 1999 Constitution has approved the creation of an additional state in the South-east geopolitical zone, which will bring it at par with the majority of the geopolitical zones in the country.  The decision was reached during the committee’s two-day retreat held in Lagos and jointly chaired by the Deputy Senate President, Senator Barau Jibrin, and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu,  Lawmakers deliberated on 55 separate proposals for state creation submitted from across the country and Kalu, who has been one of the most vocal advocates for a sixth state in the South East, said principles of equity, justice, and fairness drove the approval.  Members from both chambers of the national Assembly reportedly reached a consensus that the South-east’s request met the principles of equity, justice, and fairness, which have guided the current constitutional review process. The South-...

PRESS RELEASE The Peoples Democratic Party has reportedly announced the postponement of the screening of aspirants for its 2025 Elective National Convention, earlier scheduled for Tuesday, October 28, 2025. According to a statement issued on Monday and endorsed with the signature of Ahmadu Fintiri, the Chairman of the National Convention Organising Committee and Governor of Adamawa State, the exercise was put on hold due to “unforeseen circumstances.” Fintiri noted that a new date for the screening would be communicated to all aspirants and party members in due course, adding that the committee regretted any inconvenience the postponement might have caused. The statement reads: POSTPONEMENT OF SCREENING OF ASPIRANTS FOR NATIONAL CONVENTION  The National Convention Organizing Committee (NCOC) of our great Party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has put on hold the screening of aspirants for the 2025 Elective National Convention, earlier scheduled for Tuesday, October 28, 2025 due...

Former Jigawa State Governor and major Peoples Democratic Party, PDP stalwart, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has been denied purchasing the nomination form to contest for the party’s National Chairmanship position in the forthcoming convention of the party in Ibadan Oyo State The mild drama took at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Headquarters, Wadata Plaza, Abuja, on Monday, October 27, 2025, when Alhaji Lamido, who arrived at the secretariat around 11 a.m. with his supporters, expressed outrage after officials reportedly refused to sell him the form ahead of the November 15–16 National Convention in Ibadan, Oyo State. Addressing journalists outside the party’s headquarters, the visibly angry former Foreign Affairs Minister accused the PDP of frustrating his ambition and vowed to seek justice in court if the situation is not reversed. Lamido’s attempt to purchase the form was reportedly blocked shortly after reports surfaced that PDP governors had endorsed former Minister of Special ...

Leaders and stakeholders of the Ughelli North, Ughelli South and Udu Federal Constituency Forum (U3) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sunday, threw their weight behind President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, endorsing them as the party’s sole candidates for the 2027 general elections. Moving the motion for the vote of confidence and endorsement of the duo as the APC’s sole candidates for 2027,  the member representing Ughelli North, Ughelli South and Udu Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Francis Waive, commended President Tinubu for his developmental strides, particularly the approval of the Federal Medical Centre in Udu.  Waive also commended Governor Sheriff Oborevwori whom he described as a hard working progressive Governor, insisting that both President Bola Tinubu and Governor Sheriff Oborevwori deserved a second term for the good works they are doing.  He called on members to mobilize constit...

***Thanks FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike For Their Emergence As Governor, Deputy Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has assured his Deputy, Prof. Ngozi Odu, that development will come to her hometown, Akabuka in Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Local Government Area in his administration's commitment to spread transformation across the State. Gov. Fubara gave the assurance during a reception held in her honour at the Government Secondary School, Akabuka, on Saturday, October 25, 2025. The governor, addressing the Deputy's revelation of complaints from her kinsmen about perceived neglect of the area responded to the worries of the people, said that the disposition and approach of his government has always been towards maintaining peace, knowing that there cannot be any development in an atmosphere of chaos, even as he added that projects couldn't have been attracted to Akabuka when there was a crisis.  Sir Fubara then apologized to his deputy for the public antagonism she suffered for ...