The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for next year’s election, Atiku Abubakar, is considering choosing one of two South-South governors – Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State and Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State – as his running mate. Party sources Read more…
The Rivers State governor and former presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Nyesom Wike, has reiterated that he would keep his promise by supporting the party’s presidential candidate for the 2023 elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Read more…
The Chief Whip of the Senate, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu has condemned the kidnapping of the Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria, Rev Samuel Kanu-Uche. This is even as the former governor of Abia State has called for the immediate Read more…
The abductors of His Eminence, Samuel Kanu-Uche, the Prelate of the Methodist Church, Nigeria, and two other priests from the church have demanded a sum of N100 million as ransom. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Prelate, Read more…
Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed readiness of the Russian side to export fertilizers and foods if sanctions are lifted in the telephone conversation with President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, the Kremlin’s press service said. “In the light of Read more…
The United States will not send Ukraine rocket systems that can reach into Russia, President Joe Biden said on Monday, as Ukraine pushes for longer-range weapons system to help in its fight. Ukrainian officials have been asking allies for longer-range Read more…
Turkey is ready to host a new round of negotiations between Kiev and Moscow in Istanbul, the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday. He made the offer to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during a phone call. The Read more…
A French journalist working for the BFMTV news channel was killed in the Lugansk People’s Republic, on Monday, after his vehicle reportedly came under fire in eastern city of Severodonetsk. Western countries recognise the area as part of Ukraine. The death Read more…
Iran’s state media has offered its viewers a rare glimpse of one of the country’s underground military drone bases, with the footage depicting rows of combat UAVs parked inside the facility. The video broadcast on Saturday is said to have Read more…
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said talks with Finland and Sweden about their joining NATO were not at the “expected level” and Ankara cannot say yes to “terrorism-supporting” countries, state broadcaster TRT Haber reported on Sunday. Turkey has objected to Sweden Read more…
At some point, Russia was persuading the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk (DPR and LPR) to waive their proclaimed sovereignty if Kiev fulfills the Minsk agreements, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview to France’s TF1 television. Read more…
There was pandemonium yesterday, in the Lokogoma Axis of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, as commercial motorcycle riders popularly called Okada protested and burnt a section of an estate over the killing of a colleague and two passengers, by yet-to-be-identified Read more…