A group, the Arewa Concerned Civil Society Organizations of Nigeria has reiterated its stand that a person from the South must succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. Speaking at a World Press Conference in Kaduna on Wednesday, Comrade Abdulsalam Mohammed Read more…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Wednesday evening released Willie Obiano, former governor of Anambra State, on bail Mr Obiano’s passport was withheld as part of the bail conditions. The ex-governor was arrested last week at the Murtala Muhammad International Read more…
The Defence Headquarters says a total of 47,975 terrorists and their families have so far surrendered to troops of Operation Hadin Kai in the North East from September 2021 to date. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, said Read more…
Fourteen Nigerian states are seeking foreign direct investments up to $15 billion from businesses and organisations from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and will be pitching their proposals to investors at the forthcoming 11th Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) in Dubai. The AIM Read more…
Seven persons have been charged in connection with a widow who was stripped naked for allegedly killing her husband by marathon sex.The accused have also been remanded in prison custody, as the Anambra State Police Command continues manhunt for other Read more…
The vice-presidential candidate on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at the 2019 general election, Mr Peter Obi, has declared interest to contest for the president of Nigeria in 2033. Obi made the declaration before the traditional rulers Read more…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned, on Wednesday, that if NATO agrees with a Polish proposal to deploy peacekeepers to Ukraine, the move could trigger a military conflict between the US-led bloc and Moscow. Lavrov also claimed that Warsaw may desire to establish a Read more…
The White House has quietly assembled a team of national security officials to sketch out scenarios of how the United States and its allies should respond if Russian President Vladimir Putin — frustrated by his lack of progress in Ukraine Read more…
The Russian rouble closed on Wednesday at its strongest this month against the dollar both in Moscow and offshore exchanges after President Vladimir Putin said Russia would start selling its gas to “unfriendly” countries in roubles. The rouble ended below Read more…
Julian Assange married Stella Moris inside London’s maximum-security Belmarsh prison on Wednesday, in a long-awaited ceremony. The couple have two children. The imprisoned WikiLeaks co-founder is fighting attempts to extradite him to the US on espionage charges over publishing Iraq Read more…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Western sanctions against his country have dealt a large blow to public trust in the two major Western currencies. Many US allies have joined together to impose sweeping restrictions on Moscow in response to Read more…
The Senate and the House of Representatives, on Wednesday, ripped into the judgement of a federal high court in Umuahia, Abia State, that nullified Section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act, 2022. While the Senators vowed to appeal the judgement, Read more…