•House of Representatives The House of Representatives minority caucus, as well as the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) caucus, have disowned the Coalition of Opposition lawmakers in the House. The minority caucus, in a statement signed signed by its leaders, including Kingsley Chinda, minority leader; Ali Madaki,deputy leader; Ali Isah J.C, mi...
•Siminalayi Fubara Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has assured that the right climate would be created for all political parties to operate so that they can engage with government and offer credible opposition. The governor emphasised that it was the best thing to do, especially because the opposition political parties have acknowled...
•Late Alexei Navalny Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died today in the Arctic prison colony where he was serving a 19-year term, Russia’s federal penitentiary service said. Western governments immediately attacked the Kremlin over the death of the most outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, reports AFP. Navalny lost consciousne...
•Mass protest in Minna yesterday The All Progressives Congress (APC) today accused opposition parties of instigating mass protests across some major cities in the country to undermine the administration of President Bola Tinubu. Yesterday, protesters including women and youths blocked major roads in Minna, the Niger State capital to register t...
•Ousmane Sonko Senegal’s Constitutional Council yesterday rejected jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko’s candidacy for next month’s presidential vote, his lawyer said, after a long-running judicial saga around the firebrand politician. The 49-year-old, who came third in the 2019 presidential election, has been at the centre of a bitter stan...
•Opposition leader Ablasse Ouedraogo Burkina Faso’s former foreign minister-turned-opposition-leader has been missing for three days after being taken away from his house by people who said they were police, his party said today. Besides foreign minister, Ablasse Ouedraogo served as deputy director general of the World Trade Organization and h...
•Jailed opposition leader, Ousmane Sonko A Senegalese judge today ordered that jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko be reinstated on the electoral roll, clearing the way for him to stand in next year’s presidential election. Sonko was struck off Senegal’s electoral register after being sentenced in June to two years’ imprisonment for morally...
•Tinubu The federal government yesterday clarified that it funded 422 delegates to the ongoing climate summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference is the 28th edition and is holding from November 30, 2023 to December 12, 2023 at Expo City. There have been criticisms over the 1,411 delegates Nigeria ...
•Tinubu The Labour Party and the African Action Congress have slammed the President Bola Tinubu-led federal government for earmarking N3bn for the renovation of two luxury Abuja properties forfeited to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The landed properties located in the Guzape and Mabushi areas of the Federal Capital Territory ar...