Nigerian Students In Sudan Await Fate As Army Allows Evacuation
Nigerian students trapped in war-torn Sudan are eager to know their fate following a nod by the Sudan’s de facto president and commander-in-chief of the army, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, to the evacuation of citizens and…
APC Dissolves Presidential Campaign Council
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dissolved its Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) inaugurated last year to prosecute the 2023 presidential election. The dissolution was contained in a statement on Saturday…
Many Estates In Abuja Are Proceeds Of Money Laundering – EFCC Lawyer
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said the commission is zeroing on those hiding under real estate to perpetrate money laundering and other financial crimes. Speaking during a training session for…
Arteta defiant despite another Arsenal slip-up
The odds on Arsenal claiming their first Premier League title are lengthening by the game but manager Mikel Arteta still believes his young side can hold Manchester City at bay. For the…
Hemeti, the Sudanese general fighting for absolute control
Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo’s advance through life, from successful camel trader and commander of a horseback militia to a…
Igbo forum rejects Iwuanyanywu as Ohanaeze Ndigbo president-general
An Igbo socio-political group, Njiko Igbo Forum, has rejected the emergence of Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, as the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo. The forum has been an affiliate of Ohanaeze Ndigbo worldwide since 1999.…
Ex-Twitter CEO launches alternative app on Android
Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and ex-CEO of Twitter, has launched an alternative micro-blogging site available only on Android devices for now. The alternative platform, Bluesky, promises to be a future-thinking “social…
How suspended Adamawa REC, Yunusa-Ari was flown out of Yola in private jet
Reports have emerged that Hudu Yunusa-Ari, the Residential Electoral Commissioner in Adamawa State, who was suspended for violating the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022, was flown out of the state capital, Yola, in…
Atiku’s camp reacts to phone Eid greeting exchange between Buhari and Tinubu
The camp of Atiku Abubakar, the former Nigerian vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has expressed skepticism over a recent report that President Muhammadu Buhari and…
EXPLAINER: ‘Funding package, beneficiaries’ — What to know about FG’s $800m petrol subsidy…
The federal government, on April 5, 2023, announced that it secured the sum of $800 million from the World Bank as part of its post-subsidy palliatives scheme. Reiterating the government’s decision to proceed with the…
Tinubu Urged To Appoint Faleke As Chief Of Staff
A non-political Northern youth group, known as Arewa Social Youth Forum, has urged the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, to appoint Hon James Faleke as his Chief of Staff. The group, in a statement signed by Umaru Yahaya said…
I can’t return to palace with Ooni’s six wives – Queen Naomi
The former wife of the Ooni of Ife, Queen Silekunola Naomi Ogunwusi, who recently clocked 30, shares with SAMSON FOLARINsome of her life’s experiences and how they have shaped her into who she is Queen Silekunola Naomi…
Tinubu’s Debt To The North-West
It has been acknowledged that the All Progressives Congress would not have won the 2023 presidential elections without the support of the North West towards Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s campaign. Despite the North West…
4 FGC Yauri Girls Regain Freedom After 2 Years
Two years after the abduction of dozens of schoolgirls from Federal Government College Birnin Yauri in Kebbi State, four of the remaining 11 girls in captivity have regained their freedom. Daily Trust reports that the…
Sanwo-Olu visits scene of Banana Island building collapse
The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has personally visited the site of the collapsed seven-storey building in First Avenue, Banana Island, Lagos. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that accompanying him on the…
Poll: How do Americans feel about a Trump-Biden rematch? ‘Exhaustion’ tops the list
With President Biden reportedly set to announce his reelection campaign early next week, more Americans say they feel “exhaustion” over…
I have forgiven those who disparaged me… I seek your forgiveness too – Ganduje
Umar Ganduje, governor of Kano, has asked for forgiveness from those he might have offended while leading the state in the last eight years. According to a statement by Muhammad Garba, Kano’s commissioner for…
US supreme court upholds access to abortion pill as legal battle continues
The United States supreme court, on Friday, upheld women’s access to Mifepristone, an abortion pill. Mifepristone is taken in combination with a second drug called misoprostol to end an intrauterine pregnancy at ten…
I Have Packed All My Bags In Aso Rock Villa, Leaving Like Schoolboy – Femi Adesina
Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, has said that he has packed his bags and he is ready to leave the Presidential Villa, Abuja by May 29 when the President will…
The North and the other North
There is a delusion that North sits somewhere dressed in babanriga, picking its teeth and relishing in its ability to make whomsoever it loves the president. This arrogant conception by political opportunists and their…
Sports Minister orders closure of National Stadium Lagos
The Minister of Youths and Sport Development, Sunday Dare, on Saturday announced the temporary closure of the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos, due to the collapse of a floodlight mast. Dare made this known in a…
Six policemen arrested for brutalising suspects
Imo State Police Command has arrested six of its men, for what it called “discreditable unprofessional conduct, improper dressing, incivility to and assaulting two suspects”. The arrest of the erring policemen followed a…
BREAKING: Taraba house of Reps member-elect dies in Abuja
The House of Representatives member-elect for Jalingo/Yorro/ Zing Federal Constituency Taraba State, Hon. Isma’ila Yushua Maihanchi, is dead. Vanguard gathered that…
Suspended Adamawa REC On The Run – INEC
Suspended Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hudu Ari The Independent National Electoral Commission has disclosed that it has no information of the whereabouts of the suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner of Adamawa…