Friday, 01 December, 2023

Category: Politics


President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has brokered peace in the political crisis dogging Ondo State following the long absence of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu due to ill-health. After Friday late night meeting between the president and the All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders Read more…


A joint air defense system between Russia and the former Soviet Republics that make up the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has actually been created, despite it not being reflected in any documents, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said. Read more…


The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Saturday, congratulated former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on the occasion of his 77th birthday. In a congratulatory message on his X account, Obi hailed Atiku as a ‘dear Respected Elder Read more…


President Bola Tinubu on Friday night took the bull by the horns by wading into the leadership crisis threatening the peace of the Ondo State government by asserting that Governor Rotimi Akeredolu remains the Chief Executive of the state. The Read more…


Factional Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Edison Ehie, has said that the attack and shooting at his residence on Sunday night was political, declaring that he was not afraid of anything. He has also declared 100 percent Read more…


Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has lampooned Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State, describing him as an ingrate. Wike, the immediate past governor of Rivers, waded into his strained relationship with Fubara for the first time Read more…


The Bishop of the Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Matthew Kukah has expressed sadness over the political situation in the country, saying members of the judiciary and Catholic priests are already getting sucked into politics. Kukah stated this at the 8th House Read more…


The first groups of Israelis and Palestinians have been released under a truce brokered between Israel and Hamas that brought a temporary halt to fighting in Gaza after weeks of conflict, officials said. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed 13 Read more…


Russia was ready to stop the fighting had Ukraine agreed to remain neutral, but the West advised Kiev to keep going, the head of President Vladimir Zelensky’s parliamentary faction – and the chief negotiator at the peace talks in Istanbul – Read more…


Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Thursday, said they have confidence in the judiciary. They said the Supreme Court will serve justice in the recent court judgments that upturned the elections of some governors. Read more…


The Labour Party governorship candidate for Imo, Athan Achonu, and scores of his supporters on Thursday stormed the national headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja to demand the true certified copy of the just concluded poll in Read more…


Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) has turned down the Court of Appeal’s request to retrieve its recently issued certified true copy judgment on the Kano governorship election for alleged errors. In a strongly worded response on Thursday, Olanipekun faulted the Court Read more…