Friday, 26 September, 2025

Month: August 2025


World leaders are gathering in Tianjin for the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit Chinese President Xi Jinping is welcoming top leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit Read more…


•Ex-president weighs party options •APC mocks him, says he can’t defeat Tinubu There were reports on Friday that a powerful group within the African Democratic Congress (ADC) is wooing ex-President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2027 presidential race. A source close Read more…


Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has lauded the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) for conducting a hitch-free local government council election yesterday, saying the emergency rule would be lifted soon. Wike expressed this when he briefed Read more…


Former presidential candidate, Professor Kingsley Moghalu, has urged Nigeria’s opposition parties to put aside personal ambitions and forge a credible alliance ahead of the 2027 general elections. He made this call as a guest on the Diaspora Dialogues podcast, hosted Read more…


Pope Leo XIV meets with the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, for a private audience in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace. Pope Leo XIV held a private audience with Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Saturday, August 30. Afterwards, President Mnangagwa met Read more…


…….as Ikukuoma hosts journalists in Anambra State From Ijeoma John, Nnewi The All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship candidate,Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu (Ikukuoma) has hosted journalists in Anambra State ahead of November 8 2025 gubernatorial election. The meeting held on Friday, 30 Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor The annual Afiaolu Nnewi festival has once again received a booster from Life Beer which boldly spiced the 2025 edition with Innovations. The closing ceremony of action-packed, Life Beer empowered occasion held at the popular Nkwo Nnewi Read more…


President Donald Trump was not particularly perturbed by Vladimir Putin’s overnight bombardment of Kyiv — the largest Russian assault since the leaders met two weeks earlier. European leaders spent the morning trying to get him there. In a flurry of Read more…


A renowned journalist, author and columnist, Ike Abonyi, has denounced claims by Human Rights Activist and Lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, that the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi offered him money for support.Abonyi, who Read more…


The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested 1,315 suspected drug peddlers in the past seven months as part of its intensified nationwide crackdown on illicit substances. During the same period, the agency seized a total of 1,387,254.27kg of drugs Read more…


A pro-transparency group, Accountability Watch, has dismissed as delay tactics, claims by Mr Bashir Abdullahi Haske, a businessman under Economic And Financial Crimes (EFCC)’s investigation, that he is not running from justice, but has gone away to receive medical attention. The Read more…


The Zamfara State Coordinator of the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Organisation in the 2023 presidential election, Senator Kabiru Marafa, has resigned from the All Progressives Congress. Marafa, who represented Zamfara Central Senatorial District between 2011 and 2019, announced his resignation alongside his Read more…