THE House of Representatives has directed its Committee on Electoral Matters to summon the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. Trojaninisghts reports that Yakubu was summoned to explain the delay in conducting bye-elections to fill vacant…
THE Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mojisola Meranda, has debunked rumours doing the rounds that she has resigned from her position. The rumour, which circulated online on February 19, 2025, was quickly dismissed by her Chief…
The Nigeria Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) says it will take stringent measures to ensure that filling stations dispense the right quantity of products to motorists in Kogi. Mr Ogbe Godwin, NMDPRA Coordinator in Kogi, made the disclosures…
KREMLIN spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday in Moscow said Russia and the United States discussed the possibility of elections in Ukraine during high-level talks in Riyadh. According to Russia news agency, there was an “exchange of views” on the…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu on Wednesday congratulated Mr Azubuike Ishiekwene, Senior Vice chairman /Editor-in-Chief of Leadership Newspapers on his 60th birthday. President Tinubu appreciated Ishiekwene’s brilliant and incisive commentary and analysis on Nigeria’s politics, the economy, and society, Mr Bayo…
GOVERNOR Lucky Aiyedatiwa has denied initiating a cybercrime case against Ondo-based lawyer Wale Omolegbon Odusola following his critical Facebook posts about the administration. Earlier on Tuesday, SaharaReporters reported that a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Oke-Eda, Akure, granted bail to Odusola…
SOMETIMES, I withdraw from a conversation once it is invaded by politics. Wherever there is politics, division must set in. When politics invades conversations, the delicate fabric of objectivity is often torn apart. The fervour and passion that accompany…
AN elder statesman and former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Chief Don Obot Etiebet, CON, has mourned a former federal commissioner of Information and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark who passed on Monday, February 17, 2025 at 97. In…
WE have already been regaled with reports provided by the Wikileaks which identified the US Embassy in Nigeria as a Forward Operating Base (FOB) for wide and far reaching acts of subversion against Nigeria which included but not limited…
A NEW generation of young Africans is rejecting the widespread desire to emigrate, choosing instead to fight for political and economic transformation in their home countries. While a 2024 survey by the Ichikowitz Family Foundation found that nearly 60 percent of young Africans plan…
