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President Bola Tinubu is currently chairing the meeting of the Council of State at the Council Chambers of the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. Former Presidents Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari are onsite for the inaugural meeting convened by President Tinubu. Former Heads of State, General Yakubu Gowon (retd.) and General Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd.) joined the meeting virtually alongside the governors ...

By Casmir Igbokwe The race for Nigeria’s 2027 presidential election may have started. Already, there are subterranean moves and meetings here and there by different political party stalwarts. In no distant time, the outcome of some of these clandestine political gatherings will become manifest. As expected, one candidate who has not hidden his deft moves to run for the 2027 ...

By Felix Oboagwina After a house detention spanning two years, Nigeria’s Sunday Igboho earlier this month finally secured his freedom from Benin Republic. He did not return to Nigeria. He jetted out to Germany. Igboho, 56, a Yoruba nation separatist and whose real name is Chief Sunday Adeyemo, ran afoul of that Francophone nation’s laws for attempting to secure its ...

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, in a landmark judgment, has ordered the disclosure of the spending details of about USD$5 billion Abacha loot by the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari. The court ordered the government of President Bola Tinubu to “disclose the exact amount of money stolen by General Sani Abacha ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the President-Elect Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu to “start with a clean slate by promptly making public details of your assets, income, investments, liabilities, and interests and to encourage your Vice-President-Elect to do the same.” SERAP also urged him to “immediately prioritise the full and effective respect for human rights, media freedom, the ...

  Outgoing Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, has conferred the National Honour of Grand Commander of Order of Federal Republic, (GCFR) on the incoming President of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Buhari conferred the honour on Tinubu at the Investiture Ceremony in Abuja on Thursday. The GCFR honour comes as part of the Investiture Ceremony for the President-Elect and his deputy, Kashim ...

By Christian Aburime Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, has described the commissioning of the Second Niger Bridge as a fundamental change that will catalyze new waves of prosperity and economic growth in the South-East region. Governor Soludo made the disclosure at the commissioning and handover of the bridge, which was officially named as Muhammadu Buhari Second Niger Bridge. ...

•LASG has provided enabling environment for private sector growth, says Dangote  Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday, said the stories of President Muhammadu Buhari; President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote are a testament that prosperity can be achieved when  leaders have shared vision for the people they are leading. Sanwo-Olu shared three ...

Casmir Igbokwe Nigeria’s First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, was over the moon last Friday. I guess she expected Nigerians to give her a thunderous applause as well. Her extreme joy stemmed from the commissioning of the Presidential Wing of the State House Medical Centre. The outgoing First Lady said she initiated this N21 billion project in 2017 when her husband ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja last week ordered the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to “account for the spending of $460 million Chinese loan to fund the failed Abuja Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) project.” The Court also ordered the government to “publish the total amount of money paid to Chinese and local companies and contractors and specific details of the ...