Russia will strike at the information warfare and psychological operations centre of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and technological facilities of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) in Kyiv. However, it called on citizens living nearby to leave their homes, Russian Defence Ministry spokesman, Maj.-Gen. Igor Konashenkov told reporters on Tuesday. “In order to suppress information […]
The National Assembly has voted against the provision of special seats for women and moving Value Added Tax (VAT) to exclusive legislative list. The lawmakers rejected the two provisions during voting on 68 clause being considered in the ongoing constitutional amendment, on Tuesday. At the House of Representatives, 209 members voted against moving VAT […]
The Senate and House of Representatives have passed a bill for an Act mandating the President and Governors to submit nominees for Ministers and Commissioners within 30 days of swearing-in. Ninety-two Senators voted in favour of the bill while one abstained. Twenty hundred and eighty-nine members of the Green Chambers voted in favour of […]
The legal team of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, said Kanu staged a protest by refusing not to come out from the detention facility of the Department of State Services, DSS, over the alleged stopping of his legal team by the DSS, from seeing him (Kanu) for […]
70 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in a Russian missile attack in the region of Sumy in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian parliament confirmed on Tuesday. It said on Twitter that an army unit was fired upon in the town of Okhtyrka, located between the capital Kiev and Kharkiv. Russian forces were currently fighting to […]
President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja on Tuesday to participate in the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP@50). The event will take place from March 3 to 4 in Nairobi, Kenya. According to Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, Buhari’s trip to Kenya is sequel to an invitation extended to […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Monday, February 28, 2022, subpoenaed an officer of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Deputy Superintendent of the Correction (DSC) J.O. Oyaleke over his failure to produce a defendant in court. The defendant, Otuyalo Oluwadamilola, is being prosecuted by the Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic […]
A total of 193 votes by the members of the House of Representatives has knocked out the quest to give constitutional life pension to the President of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives and their respective Deputies. While 162 said yea, 3 persons abstained from the voting exercise. More to follow…
European Union (EU) foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has said the union’s defence ministers would meet virtually to coordinate their assistance for Ukraine amid global rage over Russia’s invasion. Borrell, via his Twitter account on Monday, said this came after the bloc decided for the first time to jointly fund weapons and send them […]
The Chidi Ibeh-led Ohanaeze Ndigbo has said former Vice President Atiku Abubakar could be swimming against the moment’s political tide should he decide to work against Igbo Presidency, come 2023. According to the group, the mood of the entire country favoured Nigerian President of Igbo extraction. The group stated this in a statement signed […]
