Category: Politics

Nigeria-Saudi Arabia Sign MoU on 2025 Hajj The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, has signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the 2025 Hajj exercise. The Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), Prof. Abdullahi Usman, represented him at the signing ceremony, while His…

Right of Reply: Re-Yusuf Tuggar’s Strategic Autonomy and Nigeria’s Non-Alignment Policy, Beyond the Dangerous Neighbourhood Oladimeji Badmus It’s good to see the Minister’s article on Nigeria’s foreign policy and its implementation sparking an intellectual debate. Bola A. Akinterinwa’s article, “Re-Yusuf Tuggar’s Strategic Autonomy and Nigeria’s Non-Alignment Policy Beyond the Dangerous Neighborhood,” published in the ThisDay…

Borno Government Task Armed Forces to Track Killers of 40 Farmers Borno State Government has confirmed the killing of 40 farmers in terrorist attack on Dumba community, near Baga in Kukawa local government area of the state. The governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum while condemning the attack which was allegedly hatched on Sunday by suspected Boko…

Youth Group Urges Financial Institution To Monitor LGA Allocation A group, Northern Christian Youth Professionals (NCYP), has commended the landmark move to ensure the direct transfer of Local Government revenues from the Revenue Allocation Account Committee into the bank accounts of Local Government Councils, noting that this development aligns with the Supreme Court’s historic judgment…

Fire Outbreak Kills 8-Month-old In Rivers  …Council chair gives #7m to victims of gas explosion Barikui Felix- Port Harcourt  An eight-month-old baby is feared to have died following a fire at a self-contained apartment on Rumuworlu Street in the Eneka area of Obio Akpor local government area of Rivers State.  Although the actual cause of…

Court Sacks PDP Executives in Rivers  Barikui Felix- Port Harcourt  A Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt on Monday nullified the 2024 ward, local government, and state congresses of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, conducted in the state. The court also restrained the executives who emerged from Congress from acting as executive members of…

Ohanaeze Ndigbo Group Threatens Protest,  Give Mbata 7-Day Ultimatum To Resign Barikui Felix – Port Harcourt. Reactions are now trailing Senator Sam Mbata’s emergence as the president-general of Ohanaeze—Ndigbo. A political pressure group, the Rivers Restoration Movement (RRM), has given him seven days to resign. The group said that Ikwerres are not part of the…

A/Ibom Government Urged to Intervene on Rising Mental Health Cases Uko Etim, Uyo  A concerned group in Akwa Ibom State, the Ononokpono Olu Family, has called on the government at all levels to address the rising cases of mental health disorders in the state, In a communiqué issued after their biennial homecoming and family reunion…