The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Governor Biodun Oyebanjo as the winner of Ekiti Gubernatorial election of 2026. Biodun Oyebanji, who flew the flag of APC, scored 319,224 votes to defeat other challengers. Following the INEC aouncement of the Read more…
The camp of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has dismissed speculation of internal disagreements over the choice of former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, as the party’s vice-presidential candidate for the 2027 presidential election. The clarification Read more…
Pope Leo visits the church where St Augustine is buried, reflecting on pessimism, interiority, and the need to “read the signs of the times”. Pope Leo XIV began his pastoral visit to Pavia, northern Italy, with a visit to the Read more…
An Anambra State High Court sitting in Awka, and presided over by Justice Jude Obiora, on Friday, granted a bail in the sum of N50million and a surety in like sum to an Nnewi-based native doctor, Ikechukwu Ezenagu, popularly known Read more…
Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, on Thursday, unveiled two newly acquired Boeing 737-800NG aircraft belonging to United Nigeria Airlines, named after the late literary icon and author of Things Fall Apart, Professor Chinua Achebe, and the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Read more…
Iran says it is ready to move forward with diplomacy with the United States, but insists Washington must ensure Israel complies with the agreement to end the war. Tehran has repeatedly said the deal requires an end to hostilities across the Read more…
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared that all actions taken by the dissolved third administration of its Directorate of State (DOS), led by Chika Edoziem, are illegal, null and void, while reaffirming that its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Read more…
Justice Salim Ibrahim gave the order after counsel to the plaintiffs, Gordy Uche, SAN, informed the court that the suit is time-bound. The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday ordered an accelerated hearing in a suit filed by Adolphus Read more…
President Bola Tinubu yesterday extolled FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, saying he had never disappointed him. Tinubu, represented by Vice President Shettima Kashim, delivered the endorsement at the inauguration of Collector Road CN2 (Emmanuel Okanla Boulevard) and other road networks in Read more…
Colleagues, friends and associates of the late director, Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Abubakar Rabe (retd), have called for urgent reforms in Nigeria’s security architecture, following his death in the hands of bandits after being kidnapped in Katsina State. The group made the call at a press conference Read more…
Fresh controversy has erupted over the six-month suspension of Kogi Central senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, following revelations by the lawmaker representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Ireti Kingibe, that she neither saw nor signed the committee report that recommended the Read more…
By Uzo Ugwunze Former Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano has congratulated Anambra-born, Los Angeles-based artist, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, for her extraordinary achievement in painting the first official joint portrait of former United States President Barack Obama and former Read more…