The Senate has approved President Bola Tinubu’s request to deploy Nigerian troops to the Republic of Benin following Sunday’s attempted coup in the neighbouring country. The approval was given on Tuesday after Senate President Godswill Akpabio read the President’s letter during plenary. In the letter, President Tinubu informed the Senate that the deployment was in response to an urgent appeal from the Beninese government after a group of soldiers attempted an “unconstitutional seizure of power.”...

Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has formally defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Mr Fubara announced his decision on Tuesday during a stakeholders’ meeting held at the Government House in Port Harcourt. The defection comes at a time when the PDP is struggling with internal divisions, including the suspension of the Governor’s political godfather and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, and some...