Politics

Shekau Abubakar, the leader of Boko Haram sect, has threatened to attack the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, for recently threatening to ensure that the communication lines of the sect members are blocked. According to The Cable, the sect leader in the new video which was released …

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabimila has appealed to the United States government to help Nigeria defeat insurgency and other security challenges bedevilling the country.   The Speaker who made the appeal while hosting the US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Leonard in Abuja yesterday February 11, stated that Nigerians …

Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s Minister of Information, has said that the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) will compete with the likes of Cable News Network (CNN) if the $500 million loan his ministry is seeking for is approved.   According to The Guardain, the Minister said this when he appeared before the senate committee on …

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina has alleged that Nigeria would have been dead and gone if his principal was not elected as the country’s President in 2015.   In a new article titled “Insecurity: What Buhari has done, and is doing”, the Presidential spokesperson …

National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has accused ‘merchants of hate and fake news’ of plotting to sow seeds of discord between him and President Buhari.   The former Lagos state governor said this while reacting to a statement credited to him, in which he was alleged …

President Muhammadu Buhari has departed for the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to attend the thirty-third Ordinary Session of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU). This was revealed in a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu on Friday. According …

Members of the Ohanézè Ndígbo Youth Council Worldwide (OYC), a pan-Igbo socio-cultural group, have appealed to President Buhari to grant presidential pardon to Namdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to enable him attend his parents’ burial which comes up next weekend.   His mother, Sally …

The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, has warned against any form of protest in the state. The governor said he will no longer tolerate and will deal with individuals and groups of persons sponsoring or inciting protests in Imo. The Governor said any more of such actions designed to …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday February 6, announced that he has kept his promise to end Boko Haram and other forms of criminalities after being first voted into power in 2015.   The Nigerian leader who said this at the official induction of Nigerian Air Force Helicopters at the Eagle’s Square …

US president Donald Trump has been discharged and acquitted by the US senate over the charges of obstruction of congress and abuse of power leveled against him by the House of Reps. On Wednesday, the Republican majority senate voted against impeaching the president, bringing the impeachment trial to an end. …