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Nigerians are on the march again. Looking for political appointments. Some of them like vultures lusting for carcasses. Since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu assumed office, thousands of Nigerians have, predictably, been positioning themselves for appointments. A friend complained weeks ago that hotels in Abuja were fully booked. This was worsened by the National Assembly […]

The media office of Obafemi Hamzat has described the claim that the Lagos deputy governor renounced his Nigerian citizenship as “misleading and inaccurate”. During the Lagos governorship election petition tribunal proceeding on Thursday, Olubusayo Fasidi, an immigration lawyer in the United States, claimed that Hamzat took an oath of allegiance in the US […]

Taoreed Lagbaja, the chief of army staff (COAS), has approved the posting and redeployment of senior officers of the Nigerian army to different commands and formations. Onyema Nwachukwu, director of army public relations, announced the shake-up in a statement on Saturday. “In an effort to reposition the Nigerian Army (NA) for operational […]

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has been criticised for not posting a picture of her and President Bola Tinubu among photographs she shared from the leadership summit in Paris, France. Tinubu and other world leaders attended the new global financial pact summit held between June 22 and 23. […]

President Bola Tinubu says his aides left out the decision for the removal of petrol subsidy from his inauguration speech. Tinubu spoke on Friday during an interactive session with Nigerians in Paris, France. In his inauguration speech on May 29, the president announced the removal of the petrol subsidy. According to […]

Hostilities between the Russian military and Wagner Group, a private army, reached a crescendo on Saturday after the mercenary force vowed to topple President Vladimir Putin. Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the group, and his men had been fighting alongside Russia in Ukraine — but he recalled his troops on Friday after accusing the Russian army […]

President Bola Tinubu has departed France for London on a “short private visit”.  On Tuesday, Tinubu travelled to France for the global financial pact summit. The president was scheduled to be back in the country today. However, in a statement issued Saturday afternoon, Dele Alake, Tinubu’s special adviser on communications and […]

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, says the rebellion of Wagner Group, a private mercenary force in Russia, has revealed the “full-scale weakness” of the Kremlin. In a post on his Twitter account on Saturday, Zelenskyy said the mercenary group’s actions had unmasked the “stupidity” of the Russian government. Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of […]