•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...
•President Nana Akufo-Addo Ghana’s president removed his finance minister in a sweeping reshuffle today ahead of December elections where an economic crisis looks set to take centre stage. Ken Ofori-Atta will be replaced by lawmaker Mohammed Amin Adam, according to a presidency statement. The long-serving finance minister, in office since 2017...
•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 […]...

