•Comrade Olusoji Oluwole The Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institution (ASSBIFI), has assured workers in the industry that their interest will be protected in the ongoing recapitalisation benchmark recently prescribed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), adding that the union have taken steps to ensure that an...
Bassirou Diomaye Faye (L) being sworn in as president Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a left-wing pan-Africanist, was sworn in today as Senegal’s youngest president after sweeping to a first-round victory on a pledge of radical reform 10 days after he was released from prison. The 44-year-old has never before held an elected office but several African ...
•Jonathan Former Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Bolaji Abdulahi has defended former President Goodluck who had been roundly criticised as weak and clueless during his reign as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2010-2015 saying that the former president was not weak or clueless. Abdulahi asserted in Port Harcourt at t...
•Trump and Pence Former US Vice President Mike Pence said yesterday he would not be backing Donald Trump as his old boss runs for a second term in the White House. “It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” Pence said in an interview with Fox News. […]
•Peter Obi The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in last year’s elections, Peter Obi, has stated that he is not desperate to be Nigeria’s president, but rather, he only wants the country to work. Obi made this statement yesterday in Abuja at the 16th annual LEADERSHIP Conference and Awards 2023, where he received […]
Mohammed Ibrahim, the President of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), has threatened that the union alongside the Non-academic Staff Union of Education and Associated Institutions (NASU) will shut down the universities in the country if the government refuses to grant their demands in the next seven days. He disclos...
•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...
The House of Representatives has rejected a bill seeking to amend sections 134 and 179 of the constitution, which provide the conditions to be elected president and governor, respectively. The bill, which sought to make it mandatory for presidential and governorship candidates to secure more than 50 percent of the total votes cast, to be [&hel...
•Tinubu and Atiku As the impact of high cost of living continues to bite harder, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has advised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to allow the reforms of Javier Milei of Argentina serve as a lesson to him. The former vice president noted that Argentina and Nigeria closed the last quarter of […]
•Tinubu and PDP logo The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, yesterday said President Bola Tinubu will not resign under any guise. He said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors should perish the thought of resignation by the president, reports The Nation. The minister described the governors’ call as a dist...