Politics

From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned Acting President to Yemi Osinbajo to London for urgent meeting, the presidency has said. The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the acting president, Laolu Akande tweeted this on his twitter handle @akandeoj. He tweeted at 7:34pm “AgP Osinbajo …

Israeli fighter jets continued to pummel the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, flattening residential buildings and raising the death toll to at least 227. The health ministry of Gaza said the dead included 64 children and 38 women. On the 10th day of the escalating violence, US President Joe Biden discussed …

Human Rights lawyer and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has slammed Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, for declaring President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba and other union leaders wanted. The NLC had on Monday embarked on a protest and strike to press home their demand …

Nigeria’s public debt is projected to increase to 34% of GDP in 2020 from 29% in 2019 and will rise to about 36.4% in the medium term, according to the International Monetary Fund, IMF’s latest report on the country. President Muhammadu Buhari, has written to the Senate to approve a …

Palestinians unite with a general strike to protest Israel’s bombardment of besieged Gaza as air raids continue. Dozens of air strikes pounded Gaza on Tuesday as US President Joe Biden expressed support for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in a phone call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A new …

The Israeli military launched another series of air raids on the Gaza Strip early on Monday, hours after Israel’s caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacks on the Palestinian enclave would rage on. Explosions rocked Gaza City from north to south in a bombardment that was heavier, wider and lasted longer …

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors will converge at Ibadan, today to discuss the nation’s worsening insecurity. It is the second of such meetings after the one the governors had held in Makurdi, the Benue State capital in April, 2021. The Director-General of the forum, Hon. C.I.D. Maduabum, said that the …

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Sunday, said under President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC-led government “over 82.9 million Nigerians can no longer afford their daily meals due to the failure of the administration to take practical steps to grow and protect the food sector, thereby leading to …

Senate minority leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe has revealed that he advocates Biafra of the mind and not Biafra of territory. According to him, people of the various ethnic nationalities could develop their areas at their pace and still be happy in a united Nigeria. Delivering a keynote address at the …

Founder of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Chekwas Okorie has warned that the country is sitting on a powder keg, warning that Nigeria could explode and collapse on all of us if no urgent action is taken to combat the many issues in the polity. He also described as wicked, …