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A brief airport stopover by President Bola Tinubu in Jos has handed Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, a fresh political opening to revisit one of the administration’s most consequential campaign promises and to argue, pointedly, that the president has failed on his own terms. In a post on his verified X account…
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has fired back at Washington with some of his sharpest language yet, describing United States sanctions against his country’s military as an affront to Rwandan sovereignty and accusing the Americans of applying pressure unevenly in a conflict that has destabilised the Great Lakes region for years. Speaking in an interview…
For the first time in living memory, thousands of Catholics in Dubai will observe Good Friday without physically setting foot in church, as two of the emirate’s major parishes shut their doors indefinitely amid escalating missile and drone strikes tied to the broader Middle East war. The closures took effect on Friday, April 3,…
Captain Ibrahim Traore, the military ruler of Burkina Faso, has told his citizens to abandon any expectation of democratic governance, delivering the most explicit rejection yet of civilian rule since he seized power nearly four years ago. Speaking during a lengthy interview broadcast on RTB, the state television network, on Thursday, Traore made no…
Flight restrictions at the Yakubu Gowon Airport and a schedule overrun caused by a bilateral security meeting with the President of Chad combined to prevent President Bola Tinubu from driving into Jos township during his condolence visit to Plateau State, the Presidency said on Friday, responding to mounting public criticism over the manner of…
UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin has issued a firm ultimatum to Italy, warning that the country risks losing its right to co-host the 2032 European Championship unless it urgently upgrades its football infrastructure. The warning comes as Italy grapples with a deepening football crisis, having failed to qualify for a third consecutive World Cup just…
The Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna has fixed April 14, 2026, to deliver its ruling on the bail application filed by former Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai. Justice Rilwan M. Aikawa, who is presiding over the case, adjourned the matter after both defence and prosecution presented their final arguments on Wednesday….
The United States has lifted sanctions on Venezuela’s acting President, Delcy Rodriguez, marking a significant thaw in relations less than three months after a US military raid captured her predecessor, Nicolas Maduro. Rodriguez’s name was deleted from the “Specially Designated Nationals List,” according to a post on the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control…
The Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 2 Command, Olohundare Jimoh, has issued a directive barring officers from boarding commercial vehicles without paying transport fares, warning that any form of coercion or abuse of authority would not be tolerated. Jimoh gave the directive on Wednesday at Obalende garage during a sensitisation meeting…
Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, has fixed April 30, 2026, to rule on an application by Petrocam Trading Nigeria Ltd seeking to vacate an interim order freezing its bank accounts over an alleged N9.05 billion debt claimed by Zenith Bank Plc. The court had earlier granted the…
