Thursday, 21 November, 2024

Month: March 2023


Germany is facing an inevitable economic decline after losing its access to Russian energy, but cannot do anything about it because it is not a sovereign nation, the secretary of the Russian National Security Council has claimed. “Germany tried for Read more…


Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili accused Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of meddling in his country’s political situation by commenting on protests there last week, prompting an angry response from Kyiv. During the protests against a “foreign agents” law that critics Read more…


The wife of a senior Nigerian politician accused of plotting to arrange an illegal organ transplant has denied involvement in the donor search. Beatrice Ekweremadu, 56, is accused of conspiring with others to bring a street trader from Nigeria to Read more…


The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) may be heading for a showdown with the Federal Government over the scarcity of naira notes and petroleum products in the country. The unavailability of cash and petrol in filling stations has thrown the country Read more…


Yabagi Sani, chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is yet to tell Nigerians what went wrong with the result viewing portal (IReV) during the presidential and national assembly polls. The commission had Read more…


Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, says in spite of the challenges related to the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections, many positives were recorded including the destruction of the myth of political structure. Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Read more…


The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 elections, Peter Obi, has claimed that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, came out against him during the elections. Obi said people who voted for him did not Read more…


The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has made a U-turn on his earlier statement that he would only challenge the process that led to the declaration of the All Progressives Congress’ Bola Tinubu as the winner of Read more…


The Presidency, Monday, said that President Muhammadu Buhari did not instruct or direct the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, to disobey Read more…


The first elected female Senator in Nigeria, Franca Afegbua, has died. Aged 81. She was said to have died in Benin City, Edo State at a private hospital after battling an illness in the last few months. Her death was Read more…


The family of late Sen. Joseph Wayas have explained why his remains are yet-to-be-buried fourteen months after his death. Wayas, who was the Senate President during the Second Republic, died in December 2021. Governor Ben Ayade had inaugurated a funeral Read more…


The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprises (CPPE) has lamented gradual  grinding down of the Nigerian economy saying that an estimated N20 trillion has been lost since the onset of the cash crisis. The Centre also bemoaned the  protracted Read more…