•PDP acting chairman, Damagum The division within the Peoples Democratic Party PDP Governors Forum (PDP GF) has assumed another dimension, mirroring tensions in the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) over the continued tenure of acting national chairman, Iliya Damagum. Formerly serving as the PDP National Deputy Chairman (North), Damagum...
•Protesters One of the counter-protesters has revealed they were promised N5,000 to demonstrate against the anti-hunger protests. The unnamed protester spoke with our correspondent in Abuja today, reports The PUNCH. He said he was given N2,000 and promised the remaining amount after the demonstration. He added that he’s hungry but the money gi...
•APGA chairman, Edozie Njoku The National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Edozie Njoku, has adduced reasons why those he referred as big men, are kicking against the Supreme Court judgement that granted financial autonomy to the 774 Local Government Areas, LGAs, in the country. Njoku, who spoke to newsmen in Abuja after ...
•Mbappe French striker and captain, Kylian Mbappe, asked to be substituted during extra-time in the Euro 2024 quarter-final win over Portugal because he was tired, his coach Didier Deschamps said. The usually prolific Mbappe has not been at his best during the Euros, scoring once from the penalty spot against Poland, but otherwise failing to [...
•Ronaldo and Mbappe Kylian Mbappe said Thursday it would be “an honour” to play against his boyhood hero Cristiano Ronaldo when France and Portugal meet in the quarter-finals of Euro 2024 in Hamburg today. “It is an honour. Everyone knows about my admiration for Cristiano,” France captain Mbappe, 25, told reporters on the eve of […]...
•Nnamdi Kanu and his lawyers Justice James Omotoso of a Federal High Court, Abuja has just dismissed a N1 billion suit filed by the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, against the federal government and the Department of State Services (DSS). The Judge held in his judgment that the IPOB […]
Anti-Graft agency – the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday continued with its alleged money laundering charge preferred against Tigran Gambaryan, an executive of Binance Holdings Ltd at a Federal High Court, Abuja The criminal charge continued before Justice Emeka Nwite inspite of the withdrawal of a charge by the Federa...
•Nyesom Wike The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) minister, Barrister Nyesom Wike, has cautioned traders against arbitrary protests without following due process, saying such acts will be considered an attempt at intimidation. The minister was reacting to the action of traders from the Apo Mechanic village, who besieged the entrance of the Fede...
•APC Chairman Ganduje and Governor Yusuf The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, has said the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) led government in Kano State is behind the various protests against him in Abuja. But the state government has denied having a hand in the crisis, reports Daily [&hell...
•Abdullahi Ganduje The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, today, Wednesday, claimed the aborted move to suspend him from office on Monday was orchestrated to starve President Bola Tinubu of Kano votes ahead of the 2027 election. Ganduje made the revelation when he received a delegation of 27 executive mem...

