Politics

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, …

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has cautioned States’ Governors and other elected leaders against joining the agitations for secession or calling for restructuring of the country. Lawan, who stated this while fielding questions from State House correspondents in Abuja on Thursday, said he was not against those calling for restructuring but …

Biden administration says 25 high-level diplomatic calls held to end violence, but Israel has ‘right to defend itself’. As a barrage of Israeli air strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip continued late on Wednesday, US President Joe Biden said “Israel has a right to defend itself” against rockets fired from the coastal …

More than 20 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza after security forces’ crackdown on Jerusalem worshippers. The Israeli military renewed its bombardment of the beleaguered Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning, targeting several areas after rockets were fired from the enclave. The new attacks come hours after at least 24 …

American political language does not have the capacity to address Palestine because it is disabled by white supremacy. Over the past few weeks, as the Israeli colonial forces escalated their brutal violence against the Palestinians of occupied Jerusalem, many hoped for some kind of a sharp reaction from the new …

Sheikh Jarrah ruling comes amid rising tension after an Israeli police crackdown leaves hundreds of Palestinians injured in recent days. A Jerusalem court has delayed a hearing over the evictions of Palestinian families in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah as tensions in the city have soared in …

Concerns are growing that the fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray is starting to resemble a campaign of ethnic cleansing. Massacres, gang rapes, forced famine – the list of atrocities being reported in Tigray, Ethiopia is long and growing. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared the military intervention officially over in November, but …