An Abuja High Court has restrained one Pedro Chibuzo and Ekundinu Segun Elvis from parading themselves as National President of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and Senate President respectively. The duo had been claiming to represent the interests of students despite not being officially elected, reports The Nation. The court ...
•A Congolese police officer stands guard at a polling station People in the Democratic Republic of Congo were voting today in a high-stakes election pitting the incumbent President Felix Tshisekedi against a fragmented opposition, whose leaders denounced “chaos” and “irregularities”. The first polling stations in the east of the vast central A...
•Prof Ijeoma Uchegbu A Nigerian-born Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, Ijeoma Uchegbu, who was recently announced as the seventh President of Wolfson College, one of the 31 colleges of the University of Cambridge, on Tuesday morning narrated her academic journey. According to the institution, she is set to assume the role on October 1, ...
•Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu The University of Cambridge has announced a Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, Ijeoma Uchegbu, as the seventh President of Wolfson College, one of its 31 colleges. This was made known in a statement titled, “Wolfson elects Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu as the College’s 7th President” on the University’s website...
The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) yesterday ordered the immediate release of Mohamed Bazoum, Niger’s president who has been held captive since the coup that overthrew him on July 26, and that of his family. The Court “orders the defendant (the military authorities in Niamey, editor’s note) to [&hell...
•Bai Koroma Former Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma reported to police in Freetown today to be questioned over what the government has called an attempted coup at the end of November. Koroma, who led the West African nation for 11 years until 2018, arrived at around 10:00 am local time (1000 GMT) at the […]
•Shettima Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, yesterday, knocked the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), over his comments on plans to spend N15 billion on the residence of Vice President Kashim Shettima. The minister had pledged to complete the accommodation initiated by the administration of former...
An elder statesman and a former Minister of Finance, Chief Olu Falae, says Nigeria’s president does not have to be the minister of petroleum, adding that it is important to appoint a minister to oversee the ministry. His position is in support of former central bank governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who earlier said that the […]
The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, has charged members of the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN) to always uphold the virtues of honesty, integrity and trust as components of their practice. Dr. Obasa said these three virtues, if practised with a deep sense of patriotism, would [&hell...
•Osifo (l) and a brutalised Ajaero (r) The President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Festus Osifo, has said that his colleague in the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, was not in Imo State on November 1, 2023 for politics but to fight for the rights of aggrieved workers in the state. Osifo, who […]

