Monday, 16 February, 2026

Category: Politics


The Kaduna State Police Command has invited former governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, and seven members of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, for questioning over alleged criminal conspiracy, incitement of public disturbance, mischief, and causing grievous hurt. A Read more…


Scores of retired Nigerian soldiers on Thursday blocked the entrance to the Federal Ministry of Finance in Abuja, protesting the alleged delay in releasing funds to the Military Pensions Board (MPB) for the payment of their outstanding entitlements. The pensioners Read more…


Russian President Vladimir Putin told Kyiv on Wednesday there was a chance to end the war in Ukraine via negotiations “if common sense prevails”, an option he said he preferred, but that he was ready to end it by force Read more…


The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors on Tuesday dared some members threatening to scuttle the party’s November 15 National Elective Convention fixed for Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, warning that they are not cowards and fear nobody, no matter how Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor Labour Party(LP) governorship candidate, Dr. George Moghalu, has declared that the November 8 governorship election in Anambra State will play a decisive role in the 2027 presidential race. Speaking at Umunze and Nwafija in Orumba South LGA Read more…


Former Aviation Minister, Senator Hadi Sirika, has dismissed widespread claims that the controversial ‘Nigeria Air’ project initiated under the Muhammadu Buhari administration was a scam, insisting that he was “very clean” from any misdeed. Sirika said this during an appearance Read more…


With one deal in Beijing Russia redirected energy flows that had run to the West for fifty years, eastward The EU’s cheap-gas lifeline just got handed to Beijing instead. With three signatures, Russia, China and Mongolia rerouted half a century Read more…


The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has declared that Governor Sim Fubara will return to office on September 18. The state APC Chairman, Chief Tony Okocha, assured that the party is ready to work with Fubara Read more…


The 2023 Labour Party Vice-Presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, has said that the desperation to remove former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 led to the insecurity ravaging Nigeria today. Datti Baba-Ahmed made this statement on Tuesday, when he featured on Politics Read more…


The chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Chief Tony Okocha, said time was ripe for the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike to join the ruling party. Okocha, who stated this while addressing Read more…


Want national chair from N/Central, demand fresh South-East, Ekiti, Ebonyi, Anambra congresses Notable leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who are loyalists of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, have demanded the retention of the 2021 Convention’s Read more…


The Russian leader has thanked President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for hosting direct talks between Moscow and Kiev Türkiye’s mediation in the Ukraine conflict continues to be valued, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday during a meeting with Turkish President Read more…