Tuesday, 19 March, 2024

Category: Politics


China will boycott the talks to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict unless Moscow will have a seat at the table, Politico magazine reported on Monday, citing officials familiar with the matter.  According to Politico, the message was “amplified” during Chinese Eurasia envoy Li Hui’s Read more…


The Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has said he initially declined to construct a road in Okpoko community in Ogbaru Local Government Area of the state because the House of Representatives member representing the area, Noble Igwe, was in Read more…


Vladimir Putin has delivered a victory speech at his campaign headquarters in Moscow, after preliminary results of the country’s presidential vote from Russia’s Central Election Commission showed him securing a fifth term in office with over 87% of the vote. Speaking Read more…


The leadership of the Labour Party has assured that the recommendation made by its 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, for a forensic audit to be carried out on LP accounts has not been discarded. This was confirmed in two separate Read more…


Pan-northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, on Saturday, condemned the suspension of Senator Abdul Ningi over the alleged padding of the 2024 budget to the tune of N3.7tn by the Senate.  Ningi had in an earlier interview made the allegation Read more…


President Bola Tinubu has appointed Mrs. Zubaida Umar as the Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). Umar’s appointment was made public in a statement on Friday evening by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Read more…


The headline inflation rate in Nigeria increased to 31.70 per cent in February 2024 relative to the January 2024 headline inflation rate, which was 29.90 per cent. Looking at the movement, the February 2024 headline inflation rate showed an increase Read more…


A South-West group, Conscience of Yoruba Nation, has opposed the proposition by the Federal Government to create ranches in regions of the country as part of measures to resolve the deadly farmer-herder clashes in the country. This was the separatist Read more…


Members of the Northern Senators’ Forum (NSF) on Thursday named Sen. Abdulaziz Yar’Adua as the replacement for Sen. Abdul Ningi as the Chairman of the group. Yar’Adua, a younger brother to the late President Umar Yar’Adua, hails from Katsina State. Read more…


More controversies appear to be swirling around the 2024 budget as more indications that the portion of the budget attributable to some federal government institutions lack details and transparency. The affected institutions, including the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, were Read more…


Senate Chief Whip, Ali Ndume, says as a principal officer in the 10th National Assembly, he got more than the N200m allocation his colleagues and floor members got for constituency projects in the 2024 Appropriation Act. “My colleagues know that Read more…


The Society of Young Nigerian Writers (SYNW) has expressed strong disapproval of the recent renaming of the Minna International Airport. On March 11, 2024, Niger State Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago announced the airport’s name change from Abubakar Imam Kagara International Read more…