Thursday, 19 December, 2024

Month: March 2023


The Pan Yoruba Socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere on Tuesday dissociated itself from report that it berated the Chairman, Council of Elders of the Igbo apex socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo,  Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, for allegedly calling the Yoruba people as “political rascals”. Read more…


A High Court of Benue State sitting in Makurdi, State capital, has issued an interim injunction restraining Dr Iyorchia Ayu from parading himself as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The presiding judge, Justice W.I. Kpochi, gave Read more…


Nigerian Law Professor, Dr Gideon Christian, has petitioned the International Criminal Court, to conduct an investigation into series of ethnically motivated violence resulting in injuries and death during the just concluded Presidential and Governorship elections in Nigeria and inciting ethnic Read more…


The camp of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has disclosed that it would be absurd for him to respond to the petitions filed at the election tribunal by Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi and his counterpart in Peoples Democratic Read more…


A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, said  he has no regret not supporting the candidate of his party, Olajide Adediran popularly known as Jandor in the March 18 governorship election in Lagos state. Read more…


Former Minister of Aviation and member of the media team of All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Council, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has declared not having any regret in saying Lagos was not a no man’s land.Reacting to accusation of hate speech Read more…


A man wearing what appears to be a Halloween mask broke into the building where German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lives on Sunday, according to media reports. The incident was caught on security cameras installed around the chancellor’s property. In a Read more…


Newer generation fighter jets are giving Russia “increasing dominance” in the skies over the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine, according to a senior Ukrainian official. It is a potentially worrying shift for the United States and its allies because Russia’s Read more…


Human rights lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) has backed calls for the televising of the presidential election tribunal proceedings. He made the comment while fielding questions on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics following calls by the National President of the Nigerian Bar Read more…


Presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has praised British envoy, Ben Llewellyn-Jones for naming the Director New Media of the Bola Tinubu Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, among those making inciting comments. In a statement by his media aide, Mr. Read more…


 Labour Party Coalition for True Democracy (ECTD), on Sunday called for a review of the Enugu Governorship election result due to what it called “some irregularities”. The call was made by the coalition’s President, Ken Asogwa, and the General Secretary, Read more…


The United Kingdom government on Sunday revealed the names of people on its Visa Ban watchlist. The British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ben Llewellyn-Jones made the revelation while speaking in an interview with Nigeria Info FM. According to him, Read more…