Saturday, 31 January, 2026

Category: Policy


Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has been granted honorary citizenship of Georgia, a state in the United States. Kanu is currently serving a life prison sentence at the Sokoto Prison after he was convicted on Read more…


President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Greenland’s ownership was not Russia’s concern and that the United States and Denmark – whose historical treatment ​of the island he criticised – should sort the matter out between themselves. Moscow has watched Read more…


PRESIDENT TINUBU APPROVES TARGETED INCENTIVES TO UNLOCK JOBS, FX INFLOWS FROM SHELL’S BONGA SOUTHWEST PROJECT AND OTHER DEEP OFFSHORE PROJECTS President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the gazetting of targeted, investment-linked incentives to support the proposed Bonga South West deep-offshore Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor The Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Ikioye Orutugu(CP) yesterday applauded the ongoing Inspector General of Police (IGP) capacity building workshop. CP Ikioye at the occasion reaffirmed the commitment of the Anambra State Police Command to enhanced security Read more…


Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party and chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, Peter Obi, has called on the federal government to ensure the safe release of victims abducted by bandits in the Kurmin Wali community of Kajuru Local Government Read more…


Sunny Ndukwu, media aide to the sacked Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, has resigned his membership of the party amid the ongoing leadership crisis. In a letter dated January 4, 2026, and addressed to the Chairman Read more…


Bandits who abducted 177 worshippers from Kurmin Wali community in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State have demanded the return of 17 motorcycles allegedly lost during recent military operations as a condition for the victims’ release. The worshippers were Read more…


Reactions come as Edun says at World Economic Forum, ‘We’re going to rely less on borrowing’ Economists and financial analysts have lauded the Federal Government’s plan to cut down on borrowing while financing the 2026 budget deficit. LEADERSHIP reports that Read more…


Envoys for U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that their meeting in Davos on a possible future peace deal to end the ​Ukraine war had been “very positive” and “constructive”. The United States has Read more…


Kano State governor, Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf, has opened up on his Monday’s closed-door meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, a parley that political observers said may have paved the way for his much-rumoured defection from Read more…


Togolese authorities have extradited former Burkina Faso leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba to Ouagadougou to face multiple criminal charges, including corruption, misappropriation of public funds, and money laundering. The statement said the extradition request was based on allegations of criminal diversion Read more…


President Donald Trump’s feud with NATO over his plans to take over Greenland has precipitated an existential crisis for the alliance that Russia is celebrating. On Saturday, Trump announced tariffs targeting NATO countries that deployed troops to the semi-autonomous Danish territory, until Read more…