•House of Reps A bill for an Act seeking to amend the 1999 Constitution to change the educational qualification for elections into certain political offices, has been stepped down by the leave of the House of Representatives. Standing in the name of Adewunmi Onanuga, the proposed legislation aimed at pegging minimum qualification for elections...
•Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji The President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) and Archbishop of Owerri Metropolitan, His Grace Most Rev Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, has said that the Nigeria is obviously very sick nation and that it is not only quarantined in the intensive care unit and also on life support. This is […]...
•President Katalin Novak Hungarian President Katalin Novak announced her resignation yesterday following outrage sparked in the central European country by a decision to pardon a man implicated in child sexual abuse case. “I am resigning my post,” said the close ally of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, acknowledging that she had made “a mistake”, ...
•Tinubu Members of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and eminent citizens have questioned executives’ use of taxpayers’ resources for so-called private visits of the president and governors, describing it as an “abuse of office” and prodigal use of scarce resources. They decried the rate at which other public officers, top civil servants and ...
•Late President Hage Geingob Namibia’s President, Hage Geingob is dead. A presidential release today confirmed his demise. Geingob, who was serving his second term as president, revealed last month that he was receiving treatment for cancer. He was 82. “It is with utmost sadness and regret that I inform you that our beloved Dr. Hage […]...
•DSS Operatives of the Department of State Services have arrested the President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Bodejo, over the creation of a vigilante group in Nasarawa State. •Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Bodejo was arrested today at the Miyetti Allah’s Head Office, Tundun Maliya Cattle Market, Kilometre 22, Abuja-Keffi Expressway, Tundun-...
There was mild drama today in Monrovia, Liberia as the newly elected president of the country, Joseph Boakai failed to complete his inauguration speech, as he suffered heart stroke. Joseph Boakai, 79, was surrounded by aides and escorted from the ceremony which ended prematurely, reports BBC. He was however earlier sworn in as president of [&h...
•President Joseph Boakai Joseph Boakai was sworn in today as Liberia’s president after his election victory over former football star George Weah, with the challenge of tackling poverty and corruption. The 79-year-old was sworn in for a six-year term after he narrowly beat former Ballon d’Or winner Weah in November’s run-off poll with 50.64 pe...
•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...
•Bazoum Ousted Nigerien President Mohammad Bazoum, his wife and son have been released from house arrest. According to a statement by the Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar today, Bazoum’s wife and the son were released after months of being held under house arrest. The Nigerien President and members of his family w...

