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President Bola Tinubu says the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is committed to ensuring democratic stability returns to the Niger Republic. Tinubu spoke on Thursday while delivering his closing remarks at the second ECOWAS extraordinary summit held in Abuja. The summit was held to deliberate on a way forward to […]

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has directed the deployment of standby military troops to restore constitutional order in the Niger Republic. ECOWAS gave the directive on Thursday at the end of its second extraordinary meeting held in Abuja to address the political crisis in Niger. The resolve to deploy […]

The house of representatives has issued an arrest warrant against Yusuf Kolo, a former staff of the Federal Character Commission (FCC), over failure to appear before the ad hoc committee investigating job racketeering in ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs). Yusuf Gagdi, chairman of the committee, issued the arrest warrant on Thursday after Kolo failed […]

The national and state house of assembly elections petition tribunal in Kano has sacked Muktar Yarima, candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), as a member representing Tarauni federal constituency. In a judgement delivered on Thursday, the three-member tribunal ruled that the primary school certificate submitted by Yarima to the Independent National […]

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President Bola Tinubu says leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) must prioritise diplomacy in their approach to resolving the crisis in the Republic of Niger.  Tinubu spoke on Thursday in Abuja while delivering his opening remarks at the second ECOWAS extraordinary summit on the socio-political situation in Niger. […]

A presidential candidate in the forthcoming election in Ecuador has been shot dead at a campaign rally. Fernando Villavicencio, a member of the national assembly, was hit with torrents of bullets as he stepped into his vehicle after the rally on Wednesday. A former journalist, he was one of eight candidates vying for […]

A federal high court in Lagos has fixed August 15 to entertain applications regarding the custody of Godwin Emefiele, suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Nicholas Oweibo, the presiding judge, on Thursday, adjourned hearing of the applications filed by the federal government and counsels to Emefiele. BACKGROUND On […]

The naira fell to an all-time low of N950 to a single dollar at the parallel market on Thursday afternoon. The figure represents a N53 or 5.9 percent depreciation compared to the N897 it traded earlier this week. Bureaux De Change (BDC) operators in Lagos who spoke to TheCable said that there […]