Three frontrunners in the race for the Senate President’s seat in the 10th National Assembly have struggled to extricate themselves from corruption allegations for between seven and 16 years. A former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, is in the race for the Senate President’s seat with baggage of corruption allegations. Despite this, his […]

The Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum (PDP-GF) says it plans to organise a reception for governors-elect on the party’s platform on Thursday. This is contained in a statement by Director-General, PDP-GF, Cyril Maduabum, in Abuja on Tuesday. He said that while the forum would receive the governors-elect on the platform of the party, it would […]

10th batch of evacuees from Sudan, Photo: Twitter The Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has confirmed that the tenth batch of evacuees from Sudan are already done with their documentation. Dabiri-Erewa stated this on Wednesday morning while issuing an update on the next batch of Nigerian citizens that would […]

The President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday afternoon left Nigeria for Europe on a working visit. Announcing the overseas trip, his media aide, Tunde Rahman, said his principal will use the opportunity of the trip to finetune the transition plans and programmes and his policy options with some of his key aides without unnecessary […]

The European Union (EU) said it is keen to work with the President-elect, Ahmed Bola Tinubu to build a mutually beneficial relationship with Nigeria. EU ambassador to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Samuela Isopi, said this in Abuja on Tuesday during the celebration of Europe Day. Isopi said the EU […]

The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has read a letter from President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, requesting for the approval of an additional financing of the National Social Safety Net Programme to the tune of $800 Million to be secured from the World Bank. Lawan read the letter on Wednesday morning as he welcomed his fellow members […]

Britain’s highest court ruled Wednesday it was too late for people in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region to lodge pollution claims against energy giant Shell after a huge oil spill more than one decade ago. The Supreme Court said in a statement that its five judges “unanimously” rejected an appeal over the 2011 spill, upholding prior […]