A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, struck out a suit seeking the disqualification of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, from contesting the 2023 presidential election. The suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/177, challenged Atiku’s eligibility on the premise that he is Read more…
Youths from across the six South-Western states of Nigeria, on Monday, staged a rally to drum support for the presidential ambition of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in 2023. The youths, under the aegis of Southern Youths Alliance (SOYA) carried Read more…
There are strong indications that pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly known as petrol will be raised by marketers. This is coming as the nation grapples with challenges in products distribution occasioned by recent off spec petrol importation Read more…
Supporters of national keader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, have resolved to double efforts in mobilising and creating awareness for the presidential ambition of the former Lagos State governor. National coordinator of the Youth for Tinubu Initiative Read more…
An air strike by the Nigerian army targeting ‘bandits’ has left seven children dead and five others wounded “by mistake” in the Maradi region of southern Niger, a local governor told AFP on Sunday. “There was a mistake with the Read more…
Russia and China have agreed on a new deal that will see Russia supply 100 million tons of coal in the “coming years” to its southern neighbor. Sergey Mochalnikov, the head of the Russian Energy Ministry, announced the deal on Friday. The new deal will add to Read more…
President Putin has unilaterally declared that two chunks of Eastern Ukraine should be considered independent states in a dramatic escalation that many fear could lead to all-out war. In an address to his nation on Monday, the Russian president formally announced “the Read more…
Jordan’s monarch, King Abdullah II, has been named in the leaked trove of data from Credit Suisse bank, as the holder of at least six accounts where he has housed millions of dollars in personal wealth, The Guardian reported on Read more…
Many Nigerians were taken aback by the recent outburst of the minister of interior and former governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, against the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and Governor Gboyega Oyetola. Even if many were not Read more…
Unknown gunmen Sunday morning attacked a team of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives on duty along the Ezzamgbo axis of the Enugu-Abakaliki Expressway, killing one of the personnel and seriously injuring one other. A credible source, who spoke Read more…
As the Mai Mallam Buni led caretaker committee of the All Progressive Congress (APC) continue to ponder on the reality of conducting the convention of the party on February 26 as earlier slated, Governor Hope Uzodinma and senator Rochas Okorocha’s Read more…
In 2008, Zimbabwe was at a turning point. President Robert Mugabe faced electoral defeat by pro-democracy challengers for the first time in two decades. Suddenly, his cash-starved regime received a surprise $100 million, which it allegedly funneled into a violent Read more…