Saturday, 18 January, 2025

Category: Politics


The anniversary of D-Day is celebrated annually with solemn ceremonies and grand re-enactments. But this year — the hugely symbolic 80th anniversary since that day of days — it may be the last major milestone for many veterans to recount in their own words the Read more…


The 2023 Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Thursday, took to Twitter (X) to affirm his commitment to the Labour Party. “For the avoidance of doubt, I remain a committed, loyal Labour Party member,” Obi posted, addressing any uncertainties Read more…


Former President Goodluck Jonathan has underscored the need for judicial integrity, saying that politicians will stop approaching courts as soon as they realise that judges will not declare losers as winners after elections. He spoke Tuesday at the inauguration of Read more…


The US House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to punish the International Criminal Court for even thinking of charging Israeli leaders with war crimes in Gaza. ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan has sought arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Read more…


PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu on Tuesday gave a marching order to the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the economy, Mr Wale Edun, to come up with cost Implications on the new minimum wage and present an affordable, sustainable and realistic figure Read more…


The Peoples Democratic Party, on Monday, advised the organised labour not to settle for nothing less than N120,000 as a minimum, saying the Federal Government had no excuse not to pay as much. But the ruling All Progressives Congress, whose Read more…


You know I am a leader in the South West and at the National convention, I was elected as the leader of the Yoruba delegation. So, I am central to the Yoruba position. The Yoruba position is my position and Read more…


South Africa is entering a new political period after the African National Congress (ANC) lost the parliamentary majority it has held for 30 years. Official results announced on Sunday showed it had taken 40.2% of the vote in the country’s Read more…


“God does not abandon us but always seeks, waits for, and accompanies us, even to the point of placing Himself, helpless, into our hands”. Pope Francis offered that certainty in his homily at Mass in the Basilica of St. John Read more…


A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, sitting at Zuba, has reserved its judgement on a N500million libel case that a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, institute against a career Ambassador in the Ministry, Lillian Read more…


Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, said on Saturday that Nigeria was becoming more volatile, uncertain and complex. He added that insecurity had made the country a dangerous place, filled with so much suffering and hunger. For him, the leadership has to Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor The Azia community in Ihiala LGA of Anambra State on Saturday elected their new Igwe after waiting for nine solid years. The newly elected monarch, Chief Francis Chikezie who got a total number of three hundred and Read more…