•PDP chairman Umar Damagum Acting National Chairman of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Umar Damagum, says the battle for the emancipation of the country has begun. Addressing stakeholders of the party at a world press conference organised for Atiku Abubakar, Presidential Candidate of PDP in the last election, Damagum said, ...
•Messi with the 7th Ballon d’Or Lionel Messi is the favourite to win the eighth Ballon d’Or of his remarkable career when this year’s ceremony to crown the planet’s best footballer takes place in Paris today, while Spain’s World Cup-winning star Aitana Bonmati is tipped to take the women’s prize. The prestigious award has been […]...
Russian police today said they had arrested 60 people suspected of storming an airport in the Muslim-majority Caucasus republic of Dagestan, seeking to attack Jewish passengers coming from Israel. Dozens of protesters, many of them chanting “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest), broke through doors and barriers at Makhachkala airport on Sunday, wit...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, is making his way to the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, to address a press conference on the state of the nation. Members of the party’s National Working Committee as well as the Board of Trustees are already seated, reports Vanguard. Those already in the hall include: […]...
•CJN Olukayode Ariwoola Against the backdrop of claims by former Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Musa Datijo, that the Chief Justice of Nigeria wields enormous powers capable of derailing the course of justice, the House of Representatives has reiterated its readiness to look at the allegations and come up with what is best for […...
Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, today, accused the police of shooting at him on his way to inspect the State House of Assembly Complex that was gutted by fire last night. Fubara named a senior officer in the Rivers State Police Command as the leader of the team that was deployed to obstruct his access […]
•Late Prof Stella Effah-Attoe The National Women Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prof Stella Effah-Attoe, is dead. Effah-Attoe, a member of the PDP National Working Committee (NWC), died yesterday after a brief illness. PDP spokesman, Debo Ologunagba, in a statement today, said the party lost one of its “best and brightest”. “Pro...
There were gunshots and firing of teargas within the Rivers State House of Assembly Complex today as some lawmakers sat to begin an impeachment process on Governor Siminalayi Fubara. About 23 lawmakers, including the Speaker, Martin Amaewhule, who presided over the sitting, resolved to begin the process. The lawmakers also suspended the leader...
Residents of Ekondo street in Calabar agitated and are asking questions how a fourteen year-old could commit suicide with a shoelace as string. The boy whose name was given as Donald resides with his grandmother at 49, Ekondo Street in Calabar South and on Saturday afternoon, he was alleged to have committed suicide by tying […]
Nigeria’s debt to China increased from $3.93bn as of June 30, 2022, to $4.73bn as of June 30, 2023, showing an increase of $800m in one year. It is an increase of 20.36 per cent from the second quarter of 2022 to Q2 2023, according to an analysis of the external debt stock data from […]

