The first groups of Israelis and Palestinians have been released under a truce brokered between Israel and Hamas that brought a temporary halt to fighting in Gaza after weeks of conflict, officials said. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed 13 Read more…
Russia was ready to stop the fighting had Ukraine agreed to remain neutral, but the West advised Kiev to keep going, the head of President Vladimir Zelensky’s parliamentary faction – and the chief negotiator at the peace talks in Istanbul – Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor Eucharia Agbasimalo, wife of the kidnapped Labour Party(LP) governorship candidate in the November 2021 Anambra State governorship election, Obiorah Agbasimalo, says she has been receiving threat messages to stop looking for her husband. Mrs Agbasimalo stated this Read more…
Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Thursday, said they have confidence in the judiciary. They said the Supreme Court will serve justice in the recent court judgments that upturned the elections of some governors. Read more…
The Labour Party governorship candidate for Imo, Athan Achonu, and scores of his supporters on Thursday stormed the national headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja to demand the true certified copy of the just concluded poll in Read more…
Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) has turned down the Court of Appeal’s request to retrieve its recently issued certified true copy judgment on the Kano governorship election for alleged errors. In a strongly worded response on Thursday, Olanipekun faulted the Court Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor A large number of people from the twenty villages in Awka community, Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra state have protested the spate of cultism and killings of their kinsmen. The protesters, comprising men, women and Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor The former Executive Chairman of Nnewi North LGA, Hon Amobi Chikwendu on Friday laid his beloved mother Late Ochiora Winifred Mmachukwu Chikwendu (The American Lady) to rest in a grand style. In a funeral service which took Read more…
Dutch Muslims expressed shock on Thursday at the election win of far-right populist Geert Wilders, who has previously called for mosques and the Koran to be banned in the Netherlands. Wilders and his Freedom Party (PVV) beat all predictions on Wednesday Read more…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told G20 leaders on Wednesday that the whole world could hear the “echo of the Global South” during his country’s presidency of the group. Delivering the opening remarks at a G20 virtual summit, Modi Read more…
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday dissolved the Rivers State Executives of the Party at all levels. Briefing journalists on Wednesday after the meeting of the NWC at the Party’s National Secretariat in Read more…
Legal scholar Professor Chidi Odinkalu has strongly criticized Nigeria’s appellate court for producing a contradictory certified true copy (CTC) of its recent verdict on the disputed Kano State governorship polls. Speaking Wednesday during an interview on Channels TV, the former Read more…