Politics

    Ahead of the 2027 general elections, the African Democratic Congress has revealed that state governors are hesitant to join the opposition coalition platform formed to challenge President Bola Tinubu due to alleged intimidation.   The ADC’s interim National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, made this known on Saturday during ...

    The Deputy Senate President, Senator Barau Jibrin, has assured Nigerians that the committee has no personal agenda or preconceived opinions to impose on the people.   Senator Barau, who is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, made the remark at the ...

    A former media aide to the late President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, has said that Buhari’s frequent medical trips abroad were a matter of personal preference and not a dismissal of Nigeria’s healthcare system.   Shehu made this clarification during an appearance on Channels Television’s “Inside Sources” program ...

    Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom on Saturday commended President Bola Tinubu for extending the Renewed Hope Conditional Cash Transfer initiative to over 27,000 vulnerable residents of the state.   A statement issued by the governor’s aide on entrepreneurship development, Meflyn Anwana in Abuja disclosed that each beneficiary ...

  Kano State Governor, Alhaji Abba Yusuf, has ordered a full-scale investigation into the alleged involvement of the State Commissioner for Transport, Alhaji Ibrahim Namadi, in the controversial bail of a suspected drug baron, Sulaiman Wawu.   The governor’s directive follows public uproar and mounting concern after reports emerged that ...

  Kebbi State Governor, Nasir Idris, has extended condolences to the government and people of Zamfara State over the passing of the Emir of Gusau, Dr. Ibrahim Bello.   In a condolence message addressed to Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State, Idris described the late monarch as a man of ...

  Russia struck several regions of Ukraine overnight, officials said Saturday, reporting one person killed in Dnipro, while Moscow said two people died after a Ukrainian drone attack in the Rostov region.   Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov said one person was killed in a high-rise apartment complex.   Across the ...

  The President of the Republic of The Gambia, Adama Barrow, on Friday paid a condolence visit to the family of the late former Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, at his hometown in Daura, Katsina State.   Barrow, who arrived in Katsina for the visit, was received by the Secretary to ...

  President Bola Tinubu, on Friday, hosted members of the 1999 class of governors at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.   The former governors were led to the State House by a former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori.   Details of the meeting were not disclosed as of the ...

    The internal crisis rocking the Social Democratic Party took a dramatic turn on Friday as the party’s National Executive Committee dissolved the National Working Committee led by the suspended National Chairman, Shehu Gabam, over the lingering crisis rocking the party.   The decision was announced at an emergency ...