Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on Monday visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Atiku was accompanied on the visit by former Gov. Liyel Imoke of Cross River and Aminu Tambuwal, a former Sokoto State governor. Abubakar and his team were received at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library…
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has said on Monday that he would resign on Feb. 12, so that the parliament did not have to impeach him. Iohannis’s presidential mandate came to an end on Dec. 21, 2024. Since then he has been staying in office until the new head of state is elected, while the election…
Two weeks before Germany’s parliamentary election, the Green Party candidate, Robert Habeck, on Monday rejected accusations of plagiarism in his doctoral thesis. In a video message on social media, Habeck, who is vice chancellor and economy minister, said that an investigation by the University of Hamburg cleared him of scientific misconduct. Allegations of plagiarism are…
The annual salaries of members of the British parliament (MPs) could rise to almost 94,000 pounds ($116,490) per year, after the body in charge of their pay recommended a slightly above-inflation increase. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) made the announcement on Monday that it was proposed to increase MPs’ pay by 2.8per cent in…
Lagos State House of Assembly , on Monday, inaugurated a six-man ad hoc committee to investigate the N24 billion Light-Up Project by the state government. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the inauguration of the committee followed the resolution at the plenary presided over by the Speaker, Mojisola Meranda, at the assembly complex…
Ecuador’s presidential poll would proceed to a second round runoff as no candidate seems to be able to win outright after more than 90 per cent of the vote have been counted. With 92.82 per cent of the vote counted so far, Daniel Noboa, the incumbent president and candidate of the National Democratic Action, is…
A Civic Society Organisation, Yiaga Africa, has criticised the proposal for the creation of 31 additional states in the country, describing it as excessive. The Executive Director of Yiaga Africa, Mr Samson Itodo, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Monday on Abuja. Recall that recently the House of…
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the suit by Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara seeking to remove 27 members of the State House of Assembly on ground of their alleged defection from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Justice Uwani Aba-Aji delivered the judgment following the dramatic withdrawal of the…
Gov Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State, has submitted names of 16 commissioner nominees to the State Assembly for screening and confirmation. Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Mr Danladi Jatau, disclosed this during proceedings on Monday in Lafia. ” The governor has submitted 16 names of Commissioner nominees to the Assembly for screening and…
An Abuja-based legal practitioner, Mr Realwan Okpanachi, has urged President Bola Tinubu to consider reshuffling his cabinet and appoint people with firm grassroots presence and electoral appeal. Okpanachi, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday, said the Tinubu-led administration required those with the capacity to translate policies into…
