Leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has described the meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, with the former leader of the group and a prominent Yoruba leader, Pa Reuben Read more…
Former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has clinched victory over his right-wing rival Jair Bolsonaro in a tightly contested second round of Brazilian election on Sunday. With over 99.5% of districts reporting their final results, Lula’s victory was “mathematically Read more…
The New York Times newspaper has said Ukraine was behind a massive but unsuccessful drone attack on the port city of Sevastopol in Crimea on Saturday, despite officials in Kiev refusing to claim responsibility for the incident. The Russian Defense Read more…
President Joe Biden’s administration is taking stock of a newly empowered Xi Jinping as the Chinese president begins a third, norm-breaking five-year term as Communist Party leader. With U.S.-Chinese relations already fraught, concerns are growing in Washington that more difficult Read more…
It is the rarest of stories. A fix for an environmental disaster that is actually working. Oil spill after oil spill has turned the Niger Delta, in southern Nigeria, into one of the most polluted places on Earth. It’s extremely Read more…
Pan-Ndigbo socio-political organisation Igbo Bu Igbo has raised the alarm over the height of insecurity ravaging the South East, stating that the region is under siege. It specifically fingered Ebube Agu in some of the killings and kidnappings taking place Read more…
A coalition of non-governmental organisations in the country has said the security alerts by the United States (US) the United Kingdom (UK) and foreign countries are aimed at destabilising the country ahead of the 2023 general elections. Speaking at a Read more…
Labour Party (LP)’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Saturday, flagged-off his campaign with a promise to end the lingering security challenges bedeviling the country. Speaking during the event in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, he said the incessant clashes between Read more…
Following the ongoing war against oil theft and its variants in the Niger Delta, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, on Saturday, said that Nigeria loses about 700,000 barrels of crude oil per day to oil theft. Read more…
The police high command, Saturday, debunked claims in the social media that bombs were planted in many parts of Abuja. It said there was no such threats and affirmed that the nation’s capital remained safe. A statement issued by Force Read more…
Social activist, Aisha Yesufu, has said that she will hold the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, accountable if he emerges in the 2023 presidential election. The PUNCH reports that the presidential campaign of the Labour Party’s standard Read more…
Russia announced Saturday that it will immediately suspend its implementation of a U.N.-brokered grain deal that has seen more than 9 million tons of grain exported from Ukraine during the war and has brought down soaring global food prices. Ukraine Read more…