Politics

United States Congressman, Rep Riley Moore, has revealed the reason he, alongside Rep. Chris Smith, introduced the Nigeria Religious Freedom and Accountability Act of 2026. Speaking in an interview on NewsMax, Moore said they introduced the Bill to confront the brutal persecution of Christians in Nigeria. United States lawmakers initiated a new bill aimed at increasing accountability for human rights …

Lent is a period when many Christians fast and it will run from Wednesday, 10 February,2027 to Thursday, 25 March, 2027. Ramadan is a period when many Muslims fast and it will run from the evening of Sunday, 7 February 2027 – Monday, 8 March 2027. According to INEC, Presidential and National Assembly elections will be held on February 20, …

There was a groundswell of opinion within the political spectrum yesterday demanding the removal of former Kano State Governor, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, from a so-called United States sanctions list, with his associates describing his inclusion on the list as politically motivated and unjustifiable. Kano State Deputy Governor, Aminu Gwarzo; elder statesman, Buba Galadima; Kwankwaso’s running mate in the 2023 presidential …

Nigerians living in the United States may be among those impacted as the United States government moves to significantly expand efforts to revoke citizenship from naturalised Americans, following fresh immigration directives linked to former President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda. According to officials familiar with the development, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has begun reassigning personnel and redeploying immigration …

Nigerians living in the United States may be among those impacted as the United States government moves to significantly expand efforts to revoke citizenship from naturalised Americans, following fresh immigration directives linked to former President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda. According to officials familiar with the development, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has begun reassigning personnel and redeploying immigration …

A former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has warned that it might be tough for the African Democratic Congress, ADC, to convince voters in southern Nigeria to support a presidential candidate from the North. Amaechi advised the party to think carefully about the different regions and how they might affect the election before the next general election comes around. The …

I am not disappointed with one Peter Ayodele Fayose for his inability to make a distinction between Ambassador Phrank Shaibu and my humble self (Paul Ibe). Sir, if indeed you read the statement titled “Peter Ayodele Fayose’s Beer Parlour Tales Of Infamy”, you would have seen that it was actually authored by Amb. Shuaibu and not Ibe. Is it possible …

I saw the response of one Paul Ibe, one of the Media Aides to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, to my release on what transpired at his (Atiku) meeting in Minna, with Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, and I can’t but be amused. However, because of my respect for Atiku, I will want to assume that he did not …

The National Chairman of the Labour Party, Senator Nenadi Usman, alongside the Acting National Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Benson Upah, has called on the Department of State Security and other security agencies to arrest the party’s former National Chairman, Julius Abure, over an alleged illegal entry into the party’s National Secretariat. Usman and Upah made the call while …

Kinsmen of the former Premier of Eastern Nigeria, late Dr. Michael Okpara, have told former governors of Abia State that their threat to stop Governor Alex Otti from being re-elected is not supported by the popular will of the electorate. This was contained in a message delivered by Uzodinma Okpara, the son of the late former Premier on Wednesday in …