The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has disclosed that the emergency rule imposed in Rivers State will be lifted on September 18, 2025. Wike disclosed this shortly after casting his vote in the ongoing local government elections across the state, where he noted that the polls have remained largely peaceful. “I…
Two persons have been reported dead in an auto-crash involving the convoy of Abia Deputy Speaker. Austin Okezie Meregini. Our correspondent gathered the accident, which happened at the Obehie axis of the popular Enugu-Umuahia-Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway, left other occupants of the Deputy Speaker’s convoy badly injured as the driver risks paralysis, except urgent spinal surgery…
Pro-Igbo groups in diaspora including the American Veterans of Igbo Descent (AVID); Rising Sun Charities Organization; and Ambassadors for Self-Determination have petitioned President Donald Trump of the United States of America, seeking US sanctions against five Nigerian jurists and a former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice in Mohammad’s Buhari administration, over…
A federal appeals court has ruled that most of United States President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs are unlawful, delivering a significant setback to his unilateral attempt to reshape U.S. trade policy. In a 7-4 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that Trump’s actions were “invalid as contrary to law,”…
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has denied stepping aside from contesting the 2027 election. This comes following a news report, which had claimed that the Otuoke-born scholar and politician had decided not to run in the next election so as not to distort Southern unity. Although Jonathan has not officially declared to run in the next…
Nkpolu Community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State was in pandemonium on Tuesday as fierce looking policemen invaded following the alleged assault of a serving cop, Inspector Joseph Nyian, who was caught by the youths while taking illicit drugs. It was alleged that the police officer, who does not reside in the community…
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Friday announced that it had killed Muhammad Abd al-Aziz Abu Zubaida, described as the Head of the Palestine District of ISIS and the most senior figure of the terrorist group operating in Gaza. This was revealed in a statement shared on its official X handle on Friday. It reads:…
An 18-year-old boy identified as Solomon Sunday has been remanded at a correctional centre in Ado-Ekiti for allegedly defiling his neighbour’s two-year-old daughter. The defendant, whose address was not provided, is facing a charge of defilement. The prosecutor, Insp Olasunkanmi Bamikole, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on Aug. 24 in Ado-Ekiti….
Elisha Abbo, former Adamawa north senator, says he has fasted and prayed for 31 days to seek God’s guidance on his next political move. In a post via X on Friday, Abbo, who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2020, said at the time, he made the…
The Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, has made a U-turn regarding his earlier remarks on Federal Government agreements with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), admitting that it formally signed a pact with the union in 2009. Speaking with reporters in Abuja on Thursday, the minister had insisted that no agreement existed between…