The President of Benin Republic, Patrice Talon, has spoken for the first time since an attempted coup on Sunday. Speaking on national television, Talon assured citizens that “the situation is totally under control.” He blamed the failed takeover on “a Read more…
The faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, aligned with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has disclosed its plan to conduct state congresses and eventually a national convention to elect party officials at the state and national Read more…
Over a dozen soldiers have been arrested in Benin Republic following a failed coup attempt, including the suspected ringleaders of the foiled operation, according to military and security sources who spoke to AFP on Sunday. A military source said 13 Read more…
United States, US lawmaker representing the Virginia’s Second District in the House of Congress is currently in Nigeria. The lawmaker, who made this known on Sunday via a post on his official X handle said he came into the country Read more…
“Today, the Nigerian armed forces stood gallantly as a defender and protector of constitutional order in the Republic of Benin …” President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has commended the gallantry of Nigeria’s military on Sunday for responding swiftly to the request by Read more…
The Federal Government has secured the release of 100 pupils abducted on November 21 from St. Mary’s Private Catholic Primary and Secondary School, Papiri, in the Agwara Local Government Area of Niger State. The successful rescue of the 100 children Read more…
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has issued a stern warning to elements within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who joined from other political parties, accusing them of attempts to undermine the party’s future. Speaking on Sunday Read more…
Russia unleashed a major missile and drone barrage on Ukraine overnight into Saturday, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had a “substantive phone call” with American officials engaged in talks with a Ukrainian delegation in Florida, aimed at ending Read more…
The Tanimu Turaki-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has berated the 16 members of the Rivers State of Assembly who announced their defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday, saying their action Read more…
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Major General Waidi Shaibu has commissioned a state-of-the-art wargaming centre located at the Department of Land Warfare, Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Jaji, Kaduna State. The centre, a brainchild of the COAS, is Read more…
Senate President Chief Godswill Akpabio has clarified that the fresh persistence use of social media led to his bringing N40Bn defamation suit against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. In a statement issued by his media office, the Senate President said contrary to Read more…
Retired Inspector-General of Police Usman Alkali Baba has said why the withdrawal of police personnel from very important personalities (VIPs) failed previously was because it came from inspectors-general of police and not directly from the president. Baba, who spoke in Read more…