Category: News

Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has said that many internet fraudsters — popularly called yahoo boys — are “genuinely gifted individuals” whose intelligence should be redirected toward productive innovation rather than condemned. Obi made the remark on Saturday in Onitsha, Anambra State, while speaking at the Golden Health Conference held […]

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has announced plans to petition regional and international bodies over what it described as coordinated attacks on its members across the country. It alleged that the assaults have become a recurring pattern, particularly in states governed by the All Progressives Congress (APC), suggesting a deliberate effort to intimidate the opposition […]

faults IGP Egbetokun’s retention Peoples Democratic Party chieftain and its former Board of Trustees chairman, Chief Bode George, has urged President Bola Tinubu to look beyond appointments and focus on establishing state police as the only sustainable solution to Nigeria’s worsening insecurity. He was reacting to the sack of the service chiefs, and retention of […]

says it’s ‘political hatchet job’ By John Dike, Osogbo The Senate Deputy Minority Leader, Senator Lere Oyewumi, has dismissed as false and mischievous the rumour circulating on social media and some online platforms of his planned defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the African Democratic Congress (ADC). His media unit, in a statement […]

By John Dike, Osogbo The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately investigate and take appropriate action against Anambra State Governor, Prof. Charles Soludo, following his recent announcement promising cash rewards to members of his party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), for wards won in the […]

President and Founder, Dangote Industries Limited (DIL), Alhaji Aliko Dangote set to list 10% of company’s shares next year S&P reports oil firm secured $4b critical financing agreement in August says company pursuing Middle Eastern partners 40,000 bpd upstream assets to begin production October The 650,000 barrels per day Dangote Refinery is set to increase […]

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday sacked the service chiefs and appointed their replacements. The statement announcing their removal, signed by the special adviser to the president on media and public communication, Sunday Dare, said the action was taken in furtherance of the Federal Government’s efforts to strengthen the national security architecture. The President appointed […]

The Peoples Democratic Party has named a 13-member National Convention Screening Committee to vet aspirants for national offices ahead of the party’s much-anticipated 2025 Elective National Convention, slated for November 15–16, 2025, in Ibadan, Oyo State. According to a statement issued on October 25, 2025, by the National Convention Organising Committee (NCOC) and signed by […]

The Nigeria Police Force has explained the reasons behind the transfer of human rights activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, to Kuje Prison shortly after he was granted bail by the Kuje Magistrate Court in Abuja on Friday. He was initially arrested by the police on Thursday on charges bordering on alleged incitement and […]

The Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on Constitution Review has unanimously approved the creation of an additional state in the South-East geo-political zone. When created, the South-East will be at par with the South-South, South-West, North-Central and North-East zones with six states. The South-East is the only geo-political zone with five […]