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President Bola Tinubu has forwarded the name of Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan to the Senate for confirmation as chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The nomination was conveyed in a formal letter addressed to the Senate and read on the floor during Tuesday’s plenary session by the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio. […]
Former Premier League referee David Coote has pleaded guilty to making an indecent image of a child, one classified as category A, the most serious kind. Coote, 43, appeared before Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday, where he admitted to extracting a video from a hard drive to a laptop on January 2, 2020. The footage […]
Madagascar has plunged deeper into political turmoil as President Andry Rajoelina has reportedly fled the country amid widening anti-government protests and military defections. Rajoelina, who was scheduled to address the nation at 17:30 GMT on Monday, abruptly postponed his speech for the second time in a week. The presidency cited threats by soldiers to […]
Police in Belgium fired tear gas as they tried to disperse tens of thousands of demonstrators protesting against Prime Minister Bart de Wever’s proposed austerity plans.
President Bola Tinubu has learned with profound sadness that Ambassador Joy Uche Angela Ogwu, who was 79, has passed away. A former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Ambassador/Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations in New York, Ambassador Ogwu represented Nigeria at the United Nations from May 2008 to May 2017. A skilled […]
United States President, Donald Trump, has cast doubt on his chances of making heaven, even as he basks in international praise for helping to end the devastating two-year war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Trump, who played a central role in brokering the ceasefire that has brought long-awaited relief to both sides, reflected on […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has postponed its 103rd National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting earlier scheduled for Wednesday, October 15, 2025, indefinitely. In a statement issued on Monday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, the decision was attributed to “recent developments in the party.” However, the statement did not specify the nature of […]
The Acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mrs. May Agbamuche-Mbu, on Tuesday, met with chairmen and secretaries of registered political parties at the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja. The meeting, which marked her first official engagement with political parties since assuming office in an acting capacity, was part of INEC’s series of consultative […]
The Clerk of the Edo State House of Assembly, Audu Omogbai, has been accused of falsifying his age to remain in service. This was contained in a petition signed by some staff of the Assembly and addressed to Edo State House of Assembly Service Commission. In the petition, concerns were raised regarding the Clerk’s tenure […]
President Bola Tinubu has welcomed the news of Shell’s $2 billion Final Investment Decision (FID) on a new gas project in the shallow offshore HI Field in OML 144. The new Non-Associated Gas (NAG) development project will deliver approximately 350 million standard cubic feet of gas per day (mmscf/d) from 2028, equivalent to almost a […]
