EBOLA: FG ASSURES NIGERIANS OF CONTAINMENT STRATEGIES The Presidential Task Force on Ebola Preparedness, Virus Disease Preparedness and Emerging Public Health Threats has assured Nigerians it can handle Ebola in the country. The Chairman of the Task Force and Chief Read more…
The United States has ordered non-essential US embassy staff and their families to leave Saudi Arabia, the State Department said on Wednesday, as the kingdom comes under sustained deadly attacks by Yemen’s Houthis. “Iranian-supported Houthis have increasingly engaged in hostilities Read more…
Since the 2027 general elections are scheduled to begin on 16 January 2027, with the presidential and National Assembly elections, the deadline for INEC to announce the seven days for displaying the voters’ register was Sunday, 18 October. The Independent Read more…
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume, CON has reiterated the need for political stakeholders to respect the power rotation arrangement between Northern and Southern Nigeria, describing it as a fundamental understanding that has sustained Read more…
From the Chief Justice to the Attorney-General, the Bar and the Inner Bar, the message at the opening of the legal year was the same: the courts will carry the weight of the 2027 elections, and their credibility is not guaranteed. Read more…
African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has charged the administration of President Bola Tinubu to account for the ₦10 billion approved for Ebola Virus Disease preparedness. Atiku, in a statement by the Director of Strategic Communication of the Read more…
The president insists that his latest moves will end the war and lower prices for Americans. Experts aren’t so sure. A series of Trump administration moves over the last two weeks — including decisions to lift sanctions on Russian diesel Read more…
The proposed National Policing Bill seeks to establish the constitutional and legislative framework for a dual policing structure, comprising a Federal Police Service and State Police Services. The Presidential Working Group on the National Policing Bill has completed the drafting Read more…
CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE IN NIGERIA: WHEN TERRORISM IS SANITISED, MASSACRES ARE REBRANDED, AND NATIONAL TRAGEDY IS REDUCED TO “FARMERS–HERDERS CLASHES. There is something profoundly disturbing about a nation that gradually becomes accustomed to the very atrocities that ought to provoke its Read more…
The Ebonyi Peoples’ Political/Economic Summit 2026 has rejected calls for an automatic second term for Governor Francis Nwifuru, endorsed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Dr Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii, popularly known as Anyichuks, and called for a change of Read more…
The Federal Government has confirmed a case of Ebola disease in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), thus raising fresh public health concerns as authorities begin tracing 44 people who may have been exposed to the infection. The patient, a woman Read more…
President Bola Tinubu on Monday said he had no regret over the removal of fuel subsidy, insisting that Nigeria cannot return to “Egypt.” President Tinubu also commended his son, Seyi, who is the Patron of the City Boy Movement, a Read more…