Beyond the Headlines
Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are set to meet with President Muhamadu Buhari on Sunday to decide on a date for the February convention. Governor of Plateau State Simon Lalong, disclosed this to State House correspondents after a meeting with the President in his office on Friday. According to him, President Buhari has […]
THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders in the South-East zone has endorsed the presidential ambition of the former Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim. The endorsement was made in Enugu during a consultative session hosted by Anyim. Political leaders from across Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and the Imo States, who attended the event said they endorsed […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says political will and action are key to transforming the country’s population into an asset. While speaking on Friday at the Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe symposium in Lagos, Obasanjo expressed worry over the country’s growing population, especially the unemployed youths. The former president said owing to unemployment and the inability to manage the […]
The internal crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress over the February convention may have worsened with some members dragging the Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee before a Federal High Court in Abuja. The applicants were seeking an order of the Court to restrain the Buni-led CECPC from going ahead with the […]
… There was jubilation in Abuja on Friday as Nigerians at home and in the diaspora called on Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel to contest the 2023 presidential elections in order to replicate his industrialization policy and use his creative financial and economic ingenuity to salvage the Nigerian dwindling and almost collapsing economy. […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has finally inaugurated the Board of the newly incorporated Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited. The president had constituted the board in September but shortly before it was to be inaugurated, he suspended the exercise indefinitely. No reason was given for the development. But on Wednesday, Adesina announced a major change on […]
The Omicron variant of Covid-19 is killing people across the globe and should not be dismissed as mild, the World Health Organization insisted Thursday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the record numbers of people catching the new variant — which is rapid out-competing the previously-dominant Delta variant in many countries — meant hospitals were […]
Employees and schoolchildren juggled work and studies with weekly Muslim prayers on the first-ever working Friday in the United Arab Emirates as the Gulf country formally switched to a Saturday-Sunday weekend. Some grumbled at the change and businesses were split, with many moving to the Western-style weekend but other private firms sticking with Fridays and […]
The South-East Destiny Movement for Bola Ahmed Tinubu 2023 has joined the call for a former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, to join the 2023 presidential race. Addressing journalists in Awka on Thursday, the Convener, SDMBAT, Chief Ekene Enefe, described the All Progressives Congress leader as a good man, who deserved to be encouraged to […]
The speaker of Tanzania’s parliament quit on Thursday after a very public falling out with President Samia Suluhu Hassan, exacerbating divisions within the ruling party. Job Ndugai, who is no stranger to controversy, had infuriated Hassan last week when he criticised her over what he called Tanzania’s “excessive” foreign borrowing. Rifts have emerged recently in […]
