Thursday, 22 January, 2026

Category: Politics


The bid by U.S. President Donald Trump to take over Greenland heralds a “deep crisis” for NATO and raises questions about the alliance’s preservation as a single military-political bloc, Russia’s top diplomat said Tuesday. “It was hard to imagine before that such a thing 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…


Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has raised the alarm over what he described as the growing audacity of bandits operating across the country, lamenting that criminal groups continued to attack communities and take hostages with little resistance. Atiku, a chieftain 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…


The Rivers Restoration Movement (RRM) has condemned what it described as divisive and damaging statements by Professor Benjamin Okaba, President of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), on the political crisis in Rivers State. In a statement signed by its Director 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…


Amid mounting speculation about a possible switch of allegiance, Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf met with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Monday. The governor, dressed in his signature flowing white babanriga and a red Read more…


From Ijeoma John, Nnewi The Nnewi traditional ruler, His Royal Highness, Igwe Kenneth Orizu III has addressed the current issue that has disrupted the peaceful coexistence in the community. Igwe set the record straight during Nnewichi community’s peaceful protest over Read more…


A Ukrainian delegation arrived in the United States for talks Saturday on a U.S.-led diplomatic push to end the nearly 4-year-old war as Russian attacks again took aim at Ukraine’s power grid, cutting electricity and heating in freezing temperatures. Kyrylo Budanov, Read more…


The initiator and convener of the Atiku Haske Organisation, Hon. Mai Nagge Musa Bakari, has rejected a directive by one of the son’s of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Abba, to change the course of the group’s support for the Read more…