Written by Rate this post Russian soldiers helped to repel an attack on Niger’s main airport in the capital Niamey last week which was claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, Moscow said on Monday. Niger’s ruling junta earlier said “Russian partners” helped to fend off the rare assault on the capital, which saw 20 attackers killed … Continue reading “Russia confirms helping to repel Niger airport attack”
Rate this post By Progress Godfrey Petrol and cooking gas prices declined year-on-year in December 2025, reinforcing a broader easing in household energy costs, according to separate reports released by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS. Data from the NBS showed that both Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, used for cooking, and Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, … Continue reading “Petrol, cooking gas prices fall year-on-year in December”
Rate this post The Police in Ebonyi say it has arrested Mr Anya Baron-Ogbonnia, Coordinator of Amasiri Development Centre in Afikpo in connection with the killing of four persons in Edda Local Government Area (LGA). SP Joshua Ukandu, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, disclosed this in an interview with the News … Continue reading “Police arrest coordinator, 2 traditional rulers over killing of 4 in Ebonyi”
Rate this post By Henry Umoru FORMER Chief of Staff, Imo State Government and ex-governorship candidate, Uche Nwosu, has officially revalidated his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) through the party’s ongoing e-registration exercise in his ward, Eziama Obaire, Nkwerre Local Government Area of Imo State. In a statement from him on Monday, addressing … Continue reading “Ex-gov candidate Uche Nwosu dismisses defection rumour, revalidates APC membership”
Rate this post •Gov AbbaYusuf won’t get away with it, the commissioner who led others to quit the cabinet in protest vows•Says in 2023, some left Kwankwaso because of gov, now same person betrayed him•Speaks on the fate of deputy governor By Bashir Bello Immediate past Commissioner for Science, Technology and Innovation in Kano State, … Continue reading “Kano: This is ‘total betrayal’”
Rate this post By Bashir Bello Kano State Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Ibrahim Waiya, in this interview, speaks on insinuations that Governor Abba Yusuf’s defection amounts to betrayal. He says the governor’s fate in New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, was uncertain, making his movement to All Progressives Congress, APC, inevitable. How true is … Continue reading “As governor, Kwankwaso also defected to APC—Waiya, Information Commissioner”
Rate this post * Bishop Onaga urges peace, unity, sustained development across Igboland By Chinedu Adonu ENUGU— The Igbo nation, yesterday, offered prayers of thanksgiving to God for survival, resilience and preservation 56 years after the Nigerian civil war, as leaders and faithful gathered at the Holy Ghost Cathedral, Enugu, for the inaugural Igbo Day … Continue reading “56 years after civil war, Igbo nation thanks God for survival”
Rate this post By Luminous Jannamike, Abuja Every night around 9 p.m., Sadiq Bello steps outside his Abuja apartment to make a phone call he never used to rehearse. His wife and children live in Kano. His mother stays close to the palace district. What was once a casual family check-in has become a ritual … Continue reading “Godfather, Godson, Guns Drawn: Abuja’s power games turn Kano, Rivers into battlefields”
Rate this post By Collins Adaka Since the advent of the Fourth Republic in 1999, politics in Nigeria has gone haywire. Politicians no longer deliver on their promises having made so many alluring ones during campaigns. To them, the political romance has come to an inevitable end. What else can we do? Until the next election, … Continue reading “How Natasha-Akpoti Uduaghan is redressing Nigerian politics”
Rate this post By Chukwudi Abiandu Senator Ovie Omo-Agege’s remarks at the January 23, 2026 APC high-level stakeholders’ meeting in Asaba were short, polite, and outwardly conciliatory. But beneath the measured tone lay a speech heavy with subtext, unresolved tensions, and quiet warnings to a party still struggling to reconcile conquest with coexistence. At first glance, … Continue reading “Deconstructing Omo-Agege: Between courtesy, caution and a quiet power struggle”