FCT, Abuja – The Senate has been engrossed in another shouting commotion following a motion to immortalise the former chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Prof Humphrey Nwosu. Nwosu was known to be the electoral chairman who conducted the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, which has been adjudged to be the fairest and … Read more
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has expressed disappointment with the state of emergency declares on Rivers State by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Naija News reports that Tinubu had last week Tuesday declared emergency rule in Rivers state over the political crisis that engulfed the South-south state. Speaking in an interview for the television show Untold … Read more
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of Kogi Central has celebrated former Education Minister, Oby Ezekwesili, for taking insults on her behalf at a Senate Committee panel on Tuesday. In a post on X, on Wednesday, Akpoti-Uduaghan commended the former minister for being a champion of accountability and an icon of visionary leadership. “Ma’am, I apologise for the … Read more
The House of Representatives has advanced four bills proposing the creation of additional states, passing them through the second reading. Naija News reports that these bills are part of 42 constitutional amendment proposals currently under review by the 10th Assembly. Presented during Wednesday’s plenary by House Leader Rep. Julius Ihonvbere and seconded by Minority Leader … Read more
The Nigerian government, through the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has begun implementing a two-year exemption on import duty and Value Added Tax (VAT) for key pharmaceutical raw materials. The agency, in a statement on Wednesday, announced that the policy follows President Bola Tinubu’s approval of guidelines to support local pharmaceutical manufacturing and reduce healthcare costs. … Read more
A prominent youth advocacy organization has called attention to what it describes as systemic disenfranchisement of crucial participants in Nigeria’s electoral process. The Unemployed Youth Initiative (UYI) has highlighted how security personnel, electoral officials, youth corps members, and prison inmates remain unable to exercise their voting rights during elections despite their central roles in the … Read more
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is billed to spend the sum of ₦6.1 billion for international travel in 2025. Naija News reports that this figure was revealed in the approved budget for 2025. Additionally, the budget designates ₦873 million for domestic travel, resulting in a combined total of ₦7 billion for both international and local travel … Read more
Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceros into the walls, a fabulous prehistoric menagerie that has rarely been seen — until now. Discovered in 2000 by an amateur cave explorer, the Grotte de Cussac in the Dordogne department holds ancient human … Read more
FCT, Abuja – The International Criminal Court (ICC) has been falsefully reported to have issued an arrest warrant for President of the Nigerian Senate, Godswill Akpabio over the ongoing controversial with suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. A Facebook page, All-Hubs, made the claim in a post on Monday, March 24, 2025, that the ICC had issued … Read more
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sunday Monidafe, has said President Bola Tinubu’s polices were responsible for the hardship in the country. Naija News reports that the former Chairman of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) said President Tinubu has forgotten the people who worked for him. In an interview with AIT … Read more