The All Progressive Congress (APC) in Cross River has vowed to take over the Senatorial and House of Representative seats the state’s North Senatorial District from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2027 general elections. APC Chairman in the state, Mr Alphonsus Eba, stated this while briefing newsmen on Wednesday in Calabar. The News Agency…
Guinea’s military leader has set Sept. 21, 2025, as the date for a constitutional referendum, in a potential first step towards returning to constitutional democracy. Mamady Doumbouya seized power in a coup in Sept. 2021, and in 2022 proposed a two-year transition to elections but did not take steps to organise a vote. Guinea, a…
Gov Dikko Radda of Katsina State has urged Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of establishments and senior government officials to conduct self-evaluation on their actions for the progress of the state. Radda made the call when a delegation led by the State Chief Judge (CJ), Justice Musa Danladi-Abubakar, paid him Sallah homage, on Wednesday in Katsina….
Brice Oligui Nguema, the former commander of Gabon’s Republican Guard, has expressed interest in transitioning from a junta leader to a democratically elected president in an election scheduled for April 12. The 50-year-old general seized power in the oil-producing Central African country in an August 2023 coup against his distant cousin, President Ali Bongo. The…
The South African opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), has written to the Speaker of Parliament, Thoko Didiza, seeking to block lawmakers from meeting to vote on the next stage of the budget process. In a letter sent to the National Assembly Speaker, the EFF argued that Tuesday’s proceedings, which supported the fiscal framework…
The suspended senator representing Kogi Central senatorial district, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, defied the ban on large gathering imposed on the state by the state government as she yesterday visited her constituency. The senator maintained that she did not break any law saying she remains a law-abiding person and not a lawbreaker as being allegedly painted…
Vice-President Kashim Shettima has urged Nigerians to promote unity, peaceful coexistence, and tolerance as key pillars for national progress, drawing from the lessons of Ramadan. Shettima made the call during a luncheon with Borno elders and his schoolmates in celebration of Eid-El-Fitr, in Maiduguri. The Vice-President, who was represented by Abdulkadir Rahis, representing Maiduguri Metropolitan…
The Police Command in Kogi has stopped an alleged planned Sallah rally in Okene Local Government Area by Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP – Kogi central). The Police Commissioner in Kogi, Mr Miller Dantawaye, announced the ban in a statement signed on his behalf by the command’s spokesman, SP Williams Ovye-Aya, in Lokoja on Tuesday. The…
Gov Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State, has called on government officials to join him in building the State and to shun the get rich quick syndrome. Sule made the call on Tuesday when he hosted the state Deputy Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Akabe, who led a delegation of government officials to him on a Sallah homage…
Donald Trump has said he is “not joking” about wanting to serve a third term as US president in what may appear to many as a bizarre ambition by the US President. The US Constitution says that “no person… shall be elected more than twice”, but some Trump supporters have suggested there could be ways…
