Former Kaduna State governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has expressed deep sorrow over the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari, paying tribute to him as a mentor whose life was defined by integrity, resilience and service to Nigeria. In his statement titled “Tribute to a mentor,” El-Rufai described Buhari as a man who stood for Nigeria…
The 2023 PDP governorship candidate in Lagos State, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor), has returned to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Adediran announced his return to APC at a news conference on Monday in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Adediran, leader of the Lagos4Lagos Movement, announced his resignation from the PDP…
The Jigawa State Government has launched an aggressive campaign to reinforce flood defences as climate experts warn that 21 local government areas, including Guri, are at risk of serious flooding in 2025. Governor Umar Namadi made the announcement on Monday, explaining that the state is not taking a wait-and-see approach but is instead implementing a…
U.S. bishops on Thursday hailed the election of former Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native and the first pope born in the U.S.A. Cardinals elected the newly titled Leo to the supreme pontificate with white smoke billowing from the Sistine Chapel signaling the closing of the conclave with the selection of…
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday received Pastor Tunde Bakare, founder of the Citadel Global Community Church, at his Lagos residence, where both men held a private discussion focused on Nigeria’s future. Bakare, a former presidential aspirant under the All Progressives Congress (APC), told journalists after the meeting that his lifelong vision remains the emergence of…
Russia has said that it would not withdraw or cancel its conditions for resuming strategic stability talks with the United States (U.S.). Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Monday. “The president said what he said. The president did not say that we are canceling everything that we have repeatedly brought to the U.S….
By Sunday Isuwa, Abuja The Southern Kaduna People’s Union (SOKAPU), National Youth Wing, has urged the people of Kaduna State to vote for the gubernatorial candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Rt Hon Isa Ashiru in the Saturday’s gubernatorial election. According to the youth, the present administration might have done it best,…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has brought fresh charges against Godwin Emefiele, the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, accusing him of illicitly obtaining a 753-unit housing estate in Abuja and managing vast sums of naira through proxy accounts during his time in office. The EFCC has filed an eight-count charge at…
President Donald Trump said the U.S. would impose an additional 10 percent tariff on countries aligning themselves with the “anti-American policies” of the BRICS group of developing nations. Leaders of the BRICS group kicked off a summit in Brazil on Sunday. With forums such as the G7 and G20 groups of major economies hamstrung by…
The Benue Government says it will pay another five months salary arrears to civil servants in the state, adding that has already been captured in the 2025 budget. The state Commissioner for Finance, Mr Michael Oglegba disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Makurdi on Wednesday. Oglegba explained that the…
