Former acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Umar Damagum, has formally handed over to the Tanimu Turaki-led National Working Committee. The handover took place at the Bauchi State Governor’s Lodge in Abuja. The tenure of the Damagum-led NWC expired on December 8, 2025, after months of internal conflict with a faction aligned …
Cameroon's top opposition leader, Anicet Ekane, has died after some weeks of detention, his lawyers and family said on Monday, alleging that he had struggled to breathe but didn't receive proper care. Aged 74, Ekane was arrested in late October alongside other top figures of his African Movement for New Independence and Democracy party …
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated General Christopher Gwabin Musa as the new Minister of Defence, following the resignation of Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar on Monday. In a statement by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu confirmed that he had forwarded Musa’s name to Senate President Godswill Akpabio in a …
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has withdrawn his membership from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), less than 24 hours to the party’s governorship primary election in the state. A letter announcing his resignation surfaced on Monday, although it was dated November 4, 2025. In the letter, Adeleke attributed his decision to the lingering leadership crisis …
The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, says the Federal Government will soon publish the identities of individuals and networks behind the financing of terrorism in the country. Speaking during an interview on Television Continental on Sunday, Bwala said the Tinubu administration has begun taking “far-reaching decisions” on national security …
Abia State Governor Alex Otti says the controversy surrounding the conviction and push for the release of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, will be settled through administrative processes. Otti gave the assurance after visiting Kanu at the Sokoto Correctional Centre over the weekend. The governor said engagements he initiated shortly after …
Former presidential aide Reno Omokri says President Bola Tinubu’s nomination of him as an ambassador-designate has deepened his appreciation of forgiveness and national service. In a statement issued on Sunday, Omokri thanked God, his family and President Tinubu, describing the nomination as an act that reflects the administration’s focus on national healing. Omokri said the …
Amid internal power struggle, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) received a major win over the weekend as more than 10,000 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), African Democratic Congress (ADC), Labour Party (LP) and other parties have decamped to the Party in Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State. The mass defection took place …
The Federal Government did not pay any ransom to secure the release of schoolchildren abducted in Kebbi and Niger states, the Senate spokesperson, Senator Yemi Adaramodu, has said. Adaramodu made the clarification on Friday during an interview on Channels Television’s Morning Brief, amid growing public speculation over the recent rescue operations. Adaramodu, who is representing …
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has dismissed the appeal by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), ruling that it lacked merit and had become academic following his conviction for terrorism offences by a Federal High Court on November 20. In a judgment delivered on Friday, a three-member panel of the …
