Politics

CONGOLESE ARMY FOILS COUPLE ATTEMPT AGAINST PRESIDENT FELIX TSHISEKEDI Congo’s army said it had foiled a coup attempt early Sunday and arrested the perpetrators, including several foreigners, following attacks on the presidential palace and the residence of a close ally of Congo’s president that left three people dead in the capital, Kinshasa. At first, local media identified the armed men …

IRANIAN PRESIDENT, FOREIGN MINISTER, DIE IN HELICOPTER CRASH Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister have been declared dead after a helicopter crash in hilly terrain and freezing weather, an Iranian official said on Monday, after search teams discovered the wreckage. “President Raisi’s helicopter was completely burned in the crash … unfortunately, all passengers are feared dead,” the official …

2027: ATIKU/OBI PLOT: TINUBU NOT BOTHERED – PRESIDENCY The presidency has said that President Bola Tinubu was not bothered about the game the 2023 presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar and his Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi are playing. Tinubu’s Special Adviser on information and strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said the President was focused on fixing the …

SOUTH DEVELOPING N15.6TRN HIGHWAY, OUR WOMEN LINING UP TO RECEIVE CUPS OF RICE – PROF USMAN YUSUF Professor Usman Yusuf, former Secretary of National Health Insurance Scheme, has spoken about the need for security to achieve development, especially in northern Nigeria. He emphasized that without security, progress would be difficult to achieve In a video recently shared on YouTube by …

CALABAR-LAGOS HIGHWAY PROJECT, A DISTRACTION – IHECHUKWU MADUBUIKE Scholar, author of “Nigeria and the Lugardian Hubris”, and two-time Minister, Prof Ihechukwu Madubuike, in this interview with Sunday Sun, assessed the one year of the Tinubu Presidency, rating his performance low. He also looked at the continued incarceration of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, the …

TINUBU’S ONE YEAR OF MULTIPLE TAXATION, RISING HARDSHIPS, BY OMONIYI SALAUDEEN In a couple of days, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be one year in office. As a matter of convention, he will be expected to present the scorecard of his achievements for the assessment of the general public. And rightly so because, in the last 12 months, tax-payers have …

2027: ATIKU, OBI’S ALLIANCE MOVES UNSETTLE APC STALWARTS The renewed moves for an alliance or merger between the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and his Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Peter Obi, have raised concerns among some leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2027 electioneering circle. Recall that Atiku and Obi …

I’LL SUPPORT PETER OBI IN 2027 IF PARTY DECIDES – ATIKU Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar met with Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections in Abuja, earlier in the week. The meeting sparked speculations about a merger of some opposition political parties ahead of the 2027 general elections. In an interview with …

2027: THERE’S BREWING NORTHERN CONSPIRACY AGAINST TINUBU – KANO-BASED POLITICAL ANALYST Dattijo Sani Rano, a political analyst based in Kano state, has revealed that there is a grand conspiracy from Northern Nigeria against the re-emergence of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for a second term. According to him, the recent open declaration by the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) that the North …

GANDUJE, APC NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, TO BE ARRAIGNED IN COURT OVER BRIBERY ALLEGATIONS, JUNE 5 Kano State High Court No. 7 has re-scheduled the arraignment of the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdullahi Ganduje to June 5. Ganduje is standing trial alongside his wife Hafsat Umar, his son, Abdullahi Umar and five others The defendants in the case included …