Russia will no longer give the U.S. advance notice about its missile tests as envisioned under a nuclear pact the Kremlin has suspended, a senior Moscow diplomat said Wednesday, as its military rolled mobile launchers across Siberia in a show Read more…
NATO countries are now de facto fighting on the side of Kiev and have become “deeply” drawn into the Ukrainian conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday. “Once again, we drew attention to the subversive line of the Read more…
Nigeria’s outgoing government has recommended that the new administration of president-elect Bola Tinubu give public sector workers pay rises after removing a fuel subsidy in June, Labour Minister Chris Ngige said on Tuesday. President Muhammadu Buhari, who steps down in Read more…
A lingering cash crunch in Nigeria, which saw long lines of customers at banks and cash dispenser machines was easing on Wednesday after the central bank reissued old naira notes back into circulation. The queues at banks in Lagos and Read more…
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has denied claims of printing Biafran currency and other State paraphernalia as widely speculated in some sections of the media. Spokesperson of the group Emma Powerful, who has also distanced the group from another Read more…
The Apex Igbo Socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, haslauded the Pan Yoruba Socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, for exonerating the Chairman, Council of Elders, Ohanaeze, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, over an alleged anti-Yoruba comment. Afenifere disassociated itself from reports that it berated Iwuanyanwu, Read more…
THE leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, yesterday, dissociated himself from the position taken at Isanya Ogbo, Ogun State over the emergence of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the President-elect, saying that is not the Afenifere way. Read more…
China threatened to retaliate on Wednesday if U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy meets Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen during her planned transit of the United States next month, saying any such move would be a “provocation”. China, which claims democratically-ruled Taiwan Read more…
Russian troops have shot down a long-range Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB) in Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday. It is the first time Moscow has reported downing such a weapon. In a statement, the ministry said that Russian air Read more…
A former deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha, has written to the party to announce his withdrawal from the governorship election, stating that he withdrew to allow for a consensus candidate to emerge. Ihedioha was elected Imo Read more…
In what could easily pass for medicine after a political death, the embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, yesterday, was compelled by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC), to step aside in deference to Read more…
Justice James Omotosho of a Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday affirmed Mr Victor Oye as the validly elected National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Justice James Omotosho, affirmed Oye’s chairmanship on the grounds that the judgments Read more…