President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday told African leaders to ensure they foster relations to ensure the continent’s growth and prosperity. He said this in his opening speech at the 55th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).Continue Reading
The Secretary-General of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Anthony Porole, has been kidnapped. Porole was kidnapped around 8.30 p.m. on Friday in his compound at Biara-Ogoni hometown in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State, with the criminals shooting sporadically before escaping with him toContinue Reading
Ahead of preparation for the trial of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, detectives from the United Kingdom have stormed Nigeria for what appeared a final lap of investigation. The detectives, who met with the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for additional fact-finding,Continue Reading
Access to Justice (A2Justice) on Friday has described as worrisome the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari for appointment on new Supreme Court justices. Joseph Otteh, the Convener, in a statement, recalled how Buhari asked the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, to initiate the process of appointing five newContinue Reading
Chuks Ibegbu, the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has asked the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, to shelve any ambition he is nursing for 2023 presidential election. Ibegbu, who made the group’s position known, in an interview withContinue Reading
There was pandemonium Thursday night in Owerri, the Imo State capital when armed youths attached to the Imo State Committee on Recovery of Government property, invaded a shopping mall (House of Freeda) owned by the daughter of the immediate past governor of the State, in search of government property. PropertyContinue Reading
The Nigerian Government has repudiated claims by a group named Northern Christian Elders Forum, who falsely alleged that the Muhammadu Buhari administration was practicing bigotry and alienating Christians. The response by the Nigerian Government was contained in a letter to the British Parliamentary Group and signed by Nigeria’s High CommissionerContinue Reading
Piers Morgan has raged about the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle for ‘behaving like a Kardashian’. Piers criticised the Duchess over her relationship with her father Thomas Markle, who he interviewed on Good Morning Britain. Asked on LBC whether he felt ‘any sort of guilt at all with the breakdownContinue Reading
Former Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Wednesday, failed to appear before Justice Folashade Giwa of the Federal High Court Abuja, to explain his role in the alleged approval of N2.5billion to Pinnacle Communications Ltd. The money was for the purpose of the Federal Government Digital Switch Over (DSO)Continue Reading
The bodies of Oscar Alberto Martínez and his 23-month-old daughter, Angie Valeria, lie face down in murky waters littered with reeds and discarded beer bottles. Their heads are wrapped in a black T-shirt, and her tiny right arm is draped over his shoulders. The shocking image captured Monday was a grim reminderContinue Reading
