Tuesday, 15 April, 2025

Month: January 2025


The All Progressives Congress, APC, has expelled Rauf Aregbesola, a former Minister of Interior and ex-Governor of Osun State, over alleged anti-party activities. Aregbesola, who led Osun State for two terms, was accused of breaching Article 21 of the APC Read more…


Former speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has accused Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, of ingratitude and betrayal of the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Nyesom Wike. Dogara alleged that Wike played a significant role Read more…


Preparatory to the 2027 presidential election, the leadership of the Obidient movement worldwide has announced the appointment of regional and diaspora members to its advisory council to oversee the galvanising of membership. A press statement signed by Dr. Tanko Yunusa, Read more…


The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has announced plans to embark on a nationwide mass rally on Tuesday, 4 February, to oppose the 50 per cent hike in telecom services by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The NLC made this known Read more…


Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy replaced the commander of the eastern front, the most heated battlefield of the Ukraine war, after Russian forces captured another strategic town there. Brigadier-General Andriy Hnatov was replaced as the battlefield commander in the east by Read more…


The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), January 28, 2025, handed over four landed title documents recovered from criminal syndicates to their owners. The title documents were falsified by a syndicate of land fraudsters in Abuja. They allegedly forged the documents Read more…


Former presidential aide Reno Omokri has accused the erstwhile governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, of allegedly orchestrating the killing of residents of the state while in office. Reno’s allegations followed a recent remark by the former governor, who said Read more…


The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has slammed a N20 billion libel suit against the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP, Olumuyiwa Adejobi over alleged libelous and defamatory publications against him. The IPOB leader, in Read more…


The All Progressives Congress (APC) has slammed the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general elections, Atiku Abubakar; his counterpart in the Labour Party, Peter Obi and former Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir-el-Rufai. The APC Read more…


Nigerians are mounting a resolute challenge to the contentious 50 per cent increase in call and data tariffs, with telecom subscribers and advocacy groups escalating the matter to the courts following unsuccessful attempts to engage the Nigerian Communications Commission. The Read more…


The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has launched a renewed operation targeting Africa’s largest counterfeit beverage market, sealing off the notorious Cemetery Market in Aba, Abia State, for the second time in two years. In Read more…


Svitlana Rudokvas once took solace in the fact that fighting between the Ukrainian army and Russian forces was raging at a safe distance in the eastern Donetsk region neighbouring her own. But now, the Kremlin’s emboldened army has advanced and Read more…