Friday, 13 February, 2026

Category: Politics


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…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor The Igbos under the aegis of Igbo Community Association (ICA) have lambasted Gov Hope Uzodinma, Sen Orji Uzor Kalu and the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi endorsement of President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 re-election bid, calling it a Read more…


….. Peace cannot be achieved without truth, fairness, justice and equity….. From Ijeoma John, Nnewi The Nnewichi community in Nnewi North Local Government Area of the Anambra State has shown their dissatisfaction over the outcome of the stakeholders meeting held Read more…


President Vladimir Putin is mediating in the Iran situation to try to quickly de-escalate tensions, the Kremlin said on Friday, after the Russian leader spoke to Israeli Prime Minister ​Benjamin Netanyahu and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. Moscow, an ally of Read more…


Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, has weighed in on the ongoing controversy surrounding the leadership of the Oyo State Council of Obas and Chiefs, saying traditional rulers must adapt to the realities Read more…


The United States is considering whether to strike Iran as turmoil intensifies for the country’s authoritarian regime. The Iranian government is at its weakest point in years, destabilizing yet another OPEC nation less than two weeks after the United States Read more…