•Theresa May Former UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, today announced that she will stand down as a member of parliament at the next general election, due to take place later this year. May, 67, is the most senior member of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative party to announce they will not seek re-election, reports AFP. […]
•Buhari and Tinubu A former media aide to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Ahmad said former Presidents Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan never criticized the former President Olusegun Obasanjo because they were from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Ahmad stated this in a statement via his X handle yesterday. He added that the PDP was...
•Late Ali Hassan Mwinyi Former Tanzanian president Ali Hassan Mwinyi, who introduced multi-party democracy to the East African nation, died yesterday aged 98, the presidency said. “I’m saddened to announce the death… around 5:30 in the evening,” President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on state television TBC1, adding that he had been receiving trea...
Concerned about the present state of the nation, the conference of former Speakers of the State Houses of Assembly of Nigeria, has called on the federal government to immediately embark on initiatives capable of ameliorating the hardship faced by Nigerians. The call was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of a one-day meeting […...
•Yakubu Gowon Former Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, has advised President Bola Tinubu to listen to concerns about the security situation in the country and deal with the situation decisively. Gowon spoke, yesterday, at the Bible Society of Nigeria (BSN)’s 15th Founder’s Day, Annual Lecture and Awards, held at the Nigerian Institute of Internatio...
•Late Bukar Abba Ibrahim The first civilian governor of Yobe State Bukar Abba Ibrahim has died while receiving medical treatment in Saudi Arabia. Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni confirmed the death of the former Senator representing Yobe East district. A statement via Buni’s Director General of Press and Media Affairs Mamman Mohammed noted t...
•Ahmed Idris The former Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, has accused the Economic and Financial Crime Commission of deceiving him to admit to the allegations against him. The ex-AGF claimed that the EFCC told him they wanted to use him to get the minister of finance and some other governors. Idris and his […]
•Ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma Sierra Leone’s former president Ernest Bai Koroma, charged for his alleged role in what authorities call an attempted coup, left the country and arrived in Nigeria yesterday. Koroma landed in Abuja yesterday afternoon, welcomed by National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu and the president of the ECOWAS Commission O...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says its operatives from the Lagos Zonal Command have arrested a former Minister of Commerce and Industry, Charles Chukwuemeka Ugwuh, for an alleged conspiracy and fraud to the tune of N3.6bn. Head Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Dele Oyewale in a statement today, said Ugwuh was arrested [&h...
•Former Sierra Leone President Ernest Bal Koroma The Economic Community of West African States(ECOWAS) has concluded plans to relocate former Sierra Leone President, Ernest Bal Koroma to Nigeria tomorrow Thursday, January 4, 2024, reports Nigerian Tribune. This is part of the agreement reached by the mission to Freetown on December 23, 2023 of...

