The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to Wednesday’s defection of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori and Ifeanyi Okowa to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The Acting National Chairman of the party, Umar Damagum said that the fate of the PDP is in the hands of God. Speaking during the presentation of the certificate…
Senate President Godswill Akpabio and the rest of the Nigerian delegation have arrived in Vatican City in preparation for Pope Francis’s funeral, which will take place on Saturday. Akpabio is heading the five-member delegation, which was sent by President Bola Tinubu to represent Nigeria at the funeral of the late head of the Roman Catholic…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka The Anambra State Government has reaffirmed that the suspension of the state’s monthly sanitation exercise, as earlier directed by Governor Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, remains in full effect. This announcement, which contained in a press release issued on Friday, April 25, 2025, by the State’s Commissioner for Information, Dr. Law…
The Federal Government of Nigeria will pursue diversification of its revenues and adopt greater prudent resource allocation measures to mitigate the impact of low oil prices should it continue, according to Mr. Wale Edun, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy. Speaking at a meeting with investors during the ongoing IMF/World…
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo has dismissed calls for a probe into the tenure of Mele Kyari, the immediate past Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL). In a statement signed by its Deputy President, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, Ohanaeze Ndigbo described Kyari as a consummate technocrat whose exceptional service to Nigeria’s…
The Chief of Defence Staff, CDS General Christopher Musa, has called on the people of Anambra State to reject the ideologies of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB and its armed wing, the Eastern Security Network, ESN, describing them as detrimental to the nation’s unity and progress. Represented by Group Captain Ibrahim…
The World Bank’s latest Africa’s Pulse report has projects a grim future for Nigeria, with poverty expected to rise by 3.6 percentage points by 2027. Released during the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington, DC, the report cites Nigeria’s reliance on oil, economic fragility, and governance challenges as key drivers. It highlights the…
Air Peace has announced that it will fully resume flight operations on Friday, April 25, 2025, following the suspension of the industrial action by staff and unions of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency. In a statement released on Thursday by the Head of Corporate Communications at Air Peace, Ejike Ndiulo, the airline expressed its appreciation to…
The Nigerian Governors’ Forum has urged the federal government to recruit more security personnel and use modern technology to fight the growing insecurity in the country. According to Naija News, this decision came after the forum’s meeting in Abuja on Wednesday, led by Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq. The statement from the meeting was read…
Workers of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMET) have called off their strike after the Federal Government’s intervention. The workers had protested over poor working conditions, grounding flights across the country on Thursday. But after a meeting with the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, in Abuja, the strike was called off. .
