Monday, 16 February, 2026

Category: Politics


Vice-President Kashim Shettima, yesterday, paid a condolence visit to the family of late former president, Muhammadu Buhari, in London. Shettima who is in London at the behest of President Bola Tinubu to accompany Buhari’s body to Nigeria for burial at Read more…


Eche Nwaobasi – Nnewi Sir Silas Ikeh, an Igbo community leader and civil rights activist who also a prominent member of Orlu leaders of taught in Imo state has welcomed the recent coalition formed by key opposition leaders led by Read more…


Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has asked Edo State governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, to prioritise governance and development over probing his predecessor, Godwin Obaseki. Wike, who spoke in Benin yesterday during a visit, cautioned that an Read more…


The Labour Party faction led by Senator Nenadi Usman has condemned the suspended National Chairman, Julius Abure, over a viral photograph showing him in the company of Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike. In a Sunday statement Read more…


President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed that all national flags be flown at half-staff to honour his late predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, who passed on earlier today. The former Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, died while receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness Read more…


The African Democratic Congress, ADC, on Sunday challenged President Bola Tinubu to explain to Nigerians his whereabouts after the BRICS summit in Brazil. On June 28, 2025, Tinubu departed Nigeria on a two-nation visit to St. Lucia and Brazil. From Read more…


Opposition parties in Lagos State have protested the victory of the All Progressives Congress in Saturday’s local government elections. The PUNCH reports that the APC clinched all 57 chairmanship seats and 375 out of 376 councillorship positions in the election. The Read more…


The leadership of the Labour Party has disclosed that no date has been set for its next National Executive Council meeting to decide the fate of erring members and chieftains of the party indicted for anti-party activities. Deputy National Chairman Read more…


A cross the North, there is a growing anxiety among members of the political class as regards the choice of President Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s running mate in 2027. While some political groups in the region are at home with the continuation Read more…


The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has expressed delight over the recent comment made by Garba Shehu, former spokesperson of former President Muhammadu Buhari, which the group said has vindicated its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who was pilloried for revealing the Read more…


By Onyebuchi Okoye As Anambra State marches resolutely towards the pivotal 2025 gubernatorial election, the choice before its citizens transcends partisan affiliations or transient political sentiments. What now lies at stake is not merely the question of who will sit Read more…


Brokering a truce will be difficult but realistic, Kirill Budanov said A ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine must be reached by the end of the year, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, Kirill Budanov, said in an interview with Bloomberg Read more…