The Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, alongside the Minister for Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, will be hosting a meeting between the government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities as well as all other registered Read more…
Gunmen, locally called bandits, have killed six soldiers responding to an attack at Tati, a village in Takum Local Government in Taraba State in the North-east of the country, the Nigerian Military said in an internal communication obtained by PREMIUM TIMES According Read more…
Reverend Father Joseph Akete of the St. John Catholic Church, Kudenda in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, who was kidnapped eight weeks ago, has died in captivity. The Chancellor, Catholic Archdiocese of Kaduna, Rev. Fr. Christian Okewu Emmanuel, Read more…
Elder statesman and former Federal Information Commissioner, Chief Edwin Clark, has taken a former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, to the cleaners, describing him as a “traitor”. While accusing him of betraying the Igbo cause, the nonagenarian said Read more…
A Ukrainian soldier in a small town that was liberated after a weeks-long Russian occupation amid the Kremlin’s war with Ukraine said that killing Russian forces is “like a sport now.” Soldier Volodymyr Demchenko described killing Russian forces during a recent interview with Read more…
The UK has agreed “mutual security assurances” with Sweden and Finland, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed on Wednesday, a few days before Stockholm and Helsinki are due to announce their decision on pursuing NATO membership. Johnson is visiting both countries today Read more…
It has never been in question that as a citizen of Nigeria, it is well within the rights of Mr Godwin Ifeanyichukwu Emefiele to have picked the nomination and expression of interest forms, commencing a process that might see him contest for Read more…
A Federal High Court sitting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital, on Tuesday, declared the controversial Ebonyi Cybercrimes Law 2021 unconstitutional, null, and void. The PUNCH reports that the Court ruling followed a suit by one Pascal Etu, who sued Governor Read more…
The House of Representatives will hold a plenary session on Wednesday to amend the Electoral Act 2022. The Clerk of the House, Yahaya Danzaria, in a statement on Tuesday, said the lawmakers will convene to amend “a fundamental error” in Read more…
Nigeria’s former president, Goodluck Jonathan, has rejected a presidential nomination form bought for him by a group from northern Nigeria. Mr Jonathan described the purchase of the form, ‘without his consent’ as an ‘insult.’ In a statement by his spokesperson, Read more…
Former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, has begged delegates from Gombe State to support his aspiration to become president of Nigeria. Tinubu made the plea on Tuesday, during a consultative meeting with delegates, where he lamented the current challenges Read more…
Former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that he remains the most qualified person to occupy the position of president of the country, come the 2023 General Read more…