Former President Goodluck Jonathan has dismissed as false a media report alleging that he was offered ₦500 billion to contest the 2027 presidential election in order to split votes in the South-South region. Jonathan’s Special Adviser on Media, Dr. Ikechukwu Read more…
Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State thought he had won because his candidates swept the APC National Assembly primaries in May, defeating the loyalists of Senator George Akume, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). The results were Read more…
Tens of thousands of Iranians thronged a vast outdoor prayer complex in Tehran on Saturday to view the coffins of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader killed at the start of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, and his family. Dressed Read more…
The Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg announced the deaths in a statement issued on Saturday. Two more Nigerians have been killed in South Africa as the violent attacks and harassment of black foreigners continue. The Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg announced the Read more…
Presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Mr Peter Obi, has accused the administration of President Bola Tinubu of presiding over what he described as “grand corruption,” citing an alleged N8.83 trillion in unbudgeted expenditure highlighted in a recent Read more…
The former Vice President and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has raised the alarm over an alleged unrecorded N8.8trillion public expenditures, and called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and the Independent Corrupt Read more…
Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has said that the state government did not express interest in the 2024 World Bank Hope Governance Loan programme. Soludo, in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Christian Aburime, said that the World Read more…
National Publicity Secretary of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and former Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, has expressed fears on the possibility of the 2027 election holding, citing certain endemic factors from both the Independent National Electoral Read more…
Enugu was thrown into quiet tension on Saturday after news broke that a senior medical professor connected to the Nnamdi Kanu case had been arrested. Human rights lawyer, Barrister Maxwell Okpara, said Emeritus Professor Martin Aghaji was picked up at Read more…
During Mass on the island of Lampedusa, Pope Leo XIV condemns the brutal treatment of migrants and refugees and the loss of life at sea, urging the world to concretely and compassionately respond to the “enormity of suffering.” During his Read more…
President Vladimir Putin has said the capture of the heavily fortified Ukrainian stronghold opens the way to Kramatorsk and Slavyansk Russian troops have captured Kiev’s longstanding stronghold of Konstantinovka in the Ukrainian-controlled part of Donbass, with Russian President Vladimir Putin Read more…
The Nigerian Government through the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu Ojukwu on Friday summoned the Ivorien Ambassador to Nigeria Kalilou Traore, following the unfortunate death of one Usama Murtala, after prolonged detention in the country’s prison. DAILY POST reports Read more…