When President Joe Biden met President Xi Jinping on Wednesday on the edges of Silicon Valley, there was a subtle but noticeable shift in the power dynamic between two countries that have spent most of the past few years denouncing, undercutting and imposing sanctions Read more…
The 2023 off-cycle governorship election in Bayelsa State has come and gone, but it will go down in history as the most fiercely contested poll in the oil and gas rich state. It was an election where the electorate could not resist Read more…
Nigerians have cried out to President Bola Tinubu that the soaring inflation, necessitating an incredibly high cost of living, is strangulating them, lamenting that they could no longer breathe. They charged the president to rise up to the rising cost of Read more…
President Bola Tinubu has made a decisive move to halt the immediate implementation of a policy mandating the automatic deduction of 40% from the internally generated revenues (IGR) of federal universities. This decision was announced during the ongoing 75th Founder’s Read more…
There was an uneasy calm in Kano on Friday, as the Abuja division of the Court of Appeal sacked the state governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf. The court upheld the verdict of the tribunal led by Justice Oluyemi Akintan Osadebay which Read more…
The national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, has expressed optimism that the party will trounce the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) again at the Supreme Court over the Kano state governorship election dispute. He was Read more…
The pair’s prank call with Italian Prime Minister Meloni, dating from late September but made public in early November, perhaps gained the most media attention. In the conversation, the Italian leader admitted there was “a lot of fatigue” with the Ukraine conflict, Read more…
German officials have been warned to be on their guard against Russian pranksters when answering phone calls, Bild has reported. The media outlet cited a memo from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), which claimed Moscow Read more…
North Korea has successfully tested newly developed solid-fuel engines for the country’s intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs), the state-run KCNA news agency has reported. Pyongyang has intensified its missile and nuclear programs in recent years, claiming that it needs the weapons Read more…
His laurels were astounding, almost superhuman: Nigeria’s first academic Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), honoured alongside such titans as Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Chief Remi Fani-Kayode and Mr Kehinde Sofola; constitutional authority frequently cited around the world and in Nigeria’s courts, Read more…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Thursday, declared the Zamfara state governorship election inconclusive. In a unanimous judgment of the three-member panel of Justices, the appellate court held that the governorship election held in Zamfara State on March Read more…
Shortly after the injunction of the National Industrial Court, restraining Governor Ademola Adeleke from removing the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Oyebola Adepele-Ojo, the governor approved the suspension of the CJ. Governor Adeleke who was said to have traveled Read more…