Thursday, 29 January, 2026

Category: Politics


President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the posting of four ambassador-designates out of the 68 confirmed by the Senate last December. The approvals were conveyed in a statement signed by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, dated Read more…


Kano State governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has formally resigned his membership of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), citing protracted internal crises and the need to protect the overall interest of the people of the State. The resignation was disclosed Read more…


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…


Former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, has revealed details of what allegedly transpired during a meeting between President Bola Tinubu and Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday. In a statement titled, “Untold story of Read more…


The plot by the Rivers State House of Assembly to oust Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his deputy, Prof. Ngozi Odu, has been stalled as the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Simeon Amadi, has declined to constitute a judicial panel to Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor The lawmaker who represented Nnewi North, Nnewi South and Ekwusigo LGAs in the House of Representatives, Hon Chris Azubogu has dumped All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Hon Azubogu’s resignation letter, dated December 29, 2025, addressed to the Read more…


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…