Former President Goodluck Jonathan has been nominated as the winner of the 2025 Founders Sunhak Peace Award to be presented by the Sunhak Peace Prize Foundation in Seoul, South Korea.J The former President becomes the third person and the first African leader to win this category of the Sunhak Award after former United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon and Prime Minister of Cambodia, Mr. Hun Sen. The 2025 Award Ceremony which is the 6th in the series will take place in Seoul on Friday,...

The House of Representatives has denied allegations that each member was offered a bribe of up to $5,000 to approve President Bola Tinubu’s request for the declaration of a State of Emergency in Rivers State. The Deputy Spokesman of the House, Hon. Philip Agbese (Benue, APC), refuted the claims, describing them as entirely false, malicious, and originating from “the pit of hell, in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Saturday, Agbese noted that the...

The Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum (PDPGF) and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) have faulted President Bola Tinubu over the imposition of state of emergency in Rivers State. On its part PDPGF has urged the president to reverse the state of emergency declared in the south south state. Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, who is the Chairman of the Forum made the call in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, and described the declaration...

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been urged by a group, the Conference of Professionals in the PDP (CP-PDP), to sanitise and save the main opposition party by expelling the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike. Recall that Wike had during a media chat on Wednesday condemned the leadership of the PDP, describing it as “stupid.” Reacting to Wike’s outburst, CP-PDP said that the former governor...

…Says Govt Deliberate In Providing Agric Infrastructure The Governor of Ekiti State, Biodun Oyebanji has stated that young farmers that participated in the state’s farming scheme made over N200 million last year from the sale of their produce. Oyebanji also reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to improving food security through aggressive infrastructure development capable of turning the state into an agricultural hub in the country. He stated this yesterday while playing host to the management team...