Japan’s parliament is set to elect ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister Tuesday, one day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new partner that would pull her governing bloc further to the right. Takaichi Read more…
Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has described the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a “family affair”, which does not require the involvement of external forces he accused of fanning the flames of discord in the party. Read more…
Legal luminary and Proprietor of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola, has said Nigeria’s rising debt profile has been making the country look unattractive to foreign investors. While lamenting the development, the Senior Advocate called for urgent reforms Read more…
Human rights activist Omoyele Sowore has issued a threat following the arrest of Aloy Ejimakor, counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Daily Sun reported that Ejimakor was arrested on Monday amid the #FreeNnamdiKanu demonstration Read more…
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force (NPC) have arrested Emmanuel Kanu, younger brother to the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, and his lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, during the #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest in Abuja on Monday. Read more…
A Magistrate Court in Kano State has ordered the State’s Hisbah Board to facilitate the marriage of popular TikTokers in the State, Ashiru Idris, widely known as Mai Wushirya, and Basira Yar Guda Daya, within 60 days. Delivering the ruling, Read more…
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has issued a four-week ultimatum to the Federal Government to conclude negotiations with all tertiary institutions-based unions. This was as the NLC frowned at the no-work-no-pay policy introduced by the government as a form of Read more…
The Nigeria Police Force has said that it obtained a specific court order regarding the protest demanding the release of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. Force Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, made this Read more…
U.S. President Donald Trump urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to accept Russia’s terms for ending the war between Russia and Ukraine in a White House meeting on Friday, warning that President Vladimir Putin threatened to “destroy” Ukraine if it didn’t Read more…
Governor of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has dissociated himself from separatist agitation in the South-East, insisting that the region’s progress and prosperity are intrinsically tied to its unity within the Nigerian federation. Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Sunday, the Read more…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has confirmed that negotiations with the Federal Government have resumed over the long-standing 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement and other unresolved demands, following over nine days of warning of industrial action. In its Strike Bulletin, Read more…
The governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Mr. John Chuma Nwosu, has challenged the donation of funds to the governor of Anambra State by various communities. Nwosu said the donations breach electoral laws, describing the development as deeply Read more…