Ahead of the National Executive Committee meeting scheduled for today (Thursday), governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party have warned the party members against illegality. Today’s NEC meeting is set to address whether the acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum, should retain his position or be replaced, reports The PU...
•Pope Francis during a meeting with relatives of Israeli hostages Pope Francis yesterday met relatives of several Israelis taken hostage by Hamas in the October 7 attacks. The 87-year-old pontiff had previously met a group of relatives of hostages at the Vatican in November, the same day as meeting Palestinians who have family in Gaza, [&helli...
•CBN Governor Yemi Cardoso Interest rate will top the agenda of next week’s Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting, it was learnt yesterday. The 294th MPC meeting is coming three weeks after the last meeting, because of the need to address critical monetary challenges, especially the rising inflation, reports The...
President Bola Tinubu has just met with the leadership of the Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the State House, Abuja. The meeting, which had the party’s candidate for the upcoming governorship election, Senator Monday Okpebholo, and his running mate, Hon Dennis Idahosa, in attendance, was aimed at ironing some disag...
Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has pledged his support for the push towards regional legislative integration aimed at creating policy cohesion in security and socioeconomic areas that engenders good governance. Governor Makinde, who met with leaders of the south west states Houses of Assembly in the courtesy room of the governor’s office, Ago...
•Obasanjo and Tambuwal Former Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has met with former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and decried the growing economic hardship in the country. He said the situation “is getting bad by the day,” and there was a need to tackle the challenges headlong, reports Daily Trust. Tambuwal, who represents Sokoto...
•ECOWAS logo The Economic Community of West African States is expected to suspend all sanctions imposed on Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, who are under military rule after juntas overthrew the civilian governments of all three countries. This is as President Bola Tinubu, who serves as Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of States, [&helli...
•President Joe Biden (C) meets with Yulia Navalnaya (R), widow of late Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny President Joe Biden said yesterday he met privately in California with the widow and daughter of Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died last week in a Russian prison. After meeting with Yulia and Dasha Navalnaya in San [&...
•Tinubu and state governors President Bola Tinubu is in a meeting with governors of the federation at the Council Chambers of the State House, Abuja. The meeting, which commenced at about 11:30 am, is also being attended by Vice President Kashim Shettima; the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FTC) Chief Nyesom Wike; and the […]...
•Equatorial Guinea’s Jose Machin fights for the ball with Nigeria’s Alex Iwobi during the AFCON final match The Minister of Sports John Enoh is rallying Nigerian star Alex Iwobi after the player was subjected to cyberbullying in the wake of the country’s Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) loss. Nigeria slumped to Ivory Coast in the [&he...