In countries where governance works in favour of the people, citizens always look forward to progress and innovation. In contrast, Nigeria often clings to nostalgia, with many—including those who never lived through certain eras—romanticising what they fondly call the “good old days.” Believing that the past was always better than the present, some advocate for […] More
The Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Sunday Karimi, on Tuesday called out his colleague, Senator Ali Ndume of Borno South, urging him to focus on addressing the persistent Boko Haram insurgency in his constituency rather than criticising President Bola Tinubu’s administration. Naija News reports that Ndume, during an appearance on Arise TV’s Prime Time, […] More
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Adewale Adebayo, has asserted that the only way President Bola Tinubu can retain the tenancy of Aso Rock in 2027 is to change his government’s policies and confront the challenges Nigerians are facing. Naija News reports that Adebayo, in an interview with Daily Trust, stated […] More
Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the President of Burkina Faso had been a target of several assassination attempts since he got into power and this is because he didn’t climb into office through elections or handshakes. He seized power in September 2022 through a military coup that ousted interim president Paul-Henri Damiba. But it wasn’t just politics, […] More
The motion, debated on the floor of the House, was referred to the Committee on Nutrition and Food Security for further legislative action. The House of Representatives has announced an investigative public hearing into the alleged mismanagement of government interventions and agricultural funding by agencies operating outside the Federal Ministry of Agriculture. The probe follows […] More
Twenty-one governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have met with former President Muhammadu Buhari in Kaduna and begged him not to dump President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the party that made him president ahead of the 2027 elections. LEADERSHIP gathered that the APC governors met former President Buhari in his newly remodelled Kaduna […] More
The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, has said that the tenure of Mele Kyari as head of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) will be remembered for ushering in critical reforms in the oil and gas sector, including the company’s commercial transition, the enactment […] More
The Presidency has condemned Senator Ali Ndume‘s choice of words by describing President Bola Tinubu’s spokesmen as attack dogs. Naija News reported that the Borno South Senator, in an interview, condemned what he termed the President’s lopsided appointments without recourse to the Constitution and upholding the federal character principle. Ndume said unless the President corrected […] More
The Federal Government has appointed Professor Nasir Naeem Abdulsalam as the new Managing Director of Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited (ASCL), marking a significant step in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration’s ongoing efforts to revive Nigeria’s long-dormant steel sector. Minister of Steel Development, Prince Shuaibu Abubakar Audu, formally presented the letter of appointment to Prof. Abdulsalam […] More
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has directed that the previous 17-hour curfew imposed on the three warring communities of Ilobu, Ifon and Erin Osun be relaxed to 12 hours. The communities had been recently embroiled in violent clashes that have claimed many lives and left several buildings razed by hoodlums. A statement signed by the […] More
Atiku Abubakar’s Special Assistant on Digital Media Strategy, Demola Olarewaju, has revealed the biggest mistake allies of former President Muhammadu Buhari will make with President Bola Tinubu in 2027. Olarewaju, whose principal was the 2023 presidential candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said Buhari’s boys in the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC bloc of […] More
To strengthen broadcast collaborations and forge strategic alliances, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has led a delegation of heads of government media agencies to the 2025 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Conference and Workshop in Las Vegas, USA. In a statement issued to journalists yesterday in Abuja, the Director of Public […] More