President Bola Tinubu returned to Nigeria on Monday, after a two-week working visit to Europe. The president was received on arrival at the Presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, at 9.50 p.m. by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, and other senior government officials….
Former Labour Party governorship candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has voiced support for a political coalition aimed at ending the dominance of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at both state and federal levels. However, he firmly ruled out any form of alliance with the APC itself, citing the party’s style of governance as the…
Harvard University filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday, April 21, escalating the battle between the prestigious institution and the former president. The University is challenging the administration’s attempts to withhold federal funding and impose political oversight on its operations, particularly related to its admissions policies, hiring practices, and political stance. …
The Trump 2.0 administration is possessed by a lust for minerals. Trump’s latest critical minerals edict, Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production, appeared in mid-March. It’s part of a barrage of actions to facilitate even easier mining corporation pillage of public lands than currently exists under the US’s 1872 Mining Law. The Center for…
Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a shipment of cocaine concealed within 20 religious books bound for Saudi Arabia. The drugs, weighing a total of 500 grams, were discovered on April 15, 2025, during a routine inspection at a courier facility in Lagos. On the same day, NDLEA operatives at another courier…
A cross-party group of around 70 Japanese lawmakers on Tuesday attended the spring festival at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, regarded as a symbol of the country’s past militarism… © Japan Today
Political tensions are mounting in Osun State as the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) exchanged sharp criticisms over the performance of Governor Ademola Adeleke, with both parties setting their sights on the 2026 governorship election. The NNPP, through its state chairman Dr. Tosin Odeyemi, on Monday called for…
The United Kingdom Home Office received 22,619 asylum applications from Nigerian nationals from 2010 to 2024. Nigerians reportedly accounted for one in 30 UK asylum claims over the period, ranking 11th on the Home Office’s newly released year-end Asylum and Resettlement statistics. According to the Home Office, nearly twice as many Nigerians (2,841) applied for…
On April 18, 2024 the Truman Presidential Library held its premier fund-raising event, an awards dinner called “Wild About Harry,” at a downtown Kansas City hotel. It was the 25th anniversary of “Wild About Harry,” which a press release by the Truman Library Institute says is “now a Kansas City tradition … known for bringing…
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) have confirmed the arrest of a suspected gunman during a cordon and search operation in Binduri, in the northern part of the country, as part of efforts to restore calm in the conflict-hit Bawku enclave. According to a statement from the GAF, the operation was triggered in the early hours…
