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...

The Jigawa State and Local Governments Contributory Pension Scheme Board has commenced paying terminal and death benefits to 728 retirees and relatives of deceased civil servants from the N1.85 billion recently released for the purpose by the state government. Dr Bilyaminu Shitu Aminu, the Executive Secretary of the board, who disclosed this during a briefing at the Pension House in Dutse, said the disbursement covered gratuities, death benefits and death pension balances. “607 retirees would...

The headquarters of the 23 Brigade of the Nigerian Army Yola, has dismissed reports by online media alleging that women protesters were shot by troops under the Brigade Commander’s escort during communal clashes in Lamurde Local Government Area, Adamawa State. Captain Olusegun Abidoye, Acting Assistant Director of Army Public Relations in a statement issued Tuesday, described the reports as “baseless, entirely misleading, and an attempt to smear the image of the Brigade and its Commander.”...

The Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development in Ogun State, Adijat Adeleye, has revealed that 502 cases of Gender-Based Violence, GBV, was recorded in the year 2025. Adeleye stated that the cases cover sexual assault, domestic abuse, child molestation, digital harassment, and intimate partner violence, which underscored the urgent need for far stronger legal safeguards and coordinated institutional action from all stakeholders to protect survivors and hold perpetrators accountable. The commissioner, who spoke in...

Former Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, who represents Borno South, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to withdraw the ambassadorial nomination list currently before the Senate, alleging that its composition violates the Federal Character principle prescribed by the 1999 Constitution. Recall that the Senate received the lists of career and non-career ambassadorial nominees from President Tinubu on Thursday, which were referred to the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs for screening. However, Ndume, in a statement on...

The Coalition of Federal Pensioners of Nigeria announced a planned mass demonstration to press for the settlement of outstanding pension increment arrears and approved palliative allowances. According to the coalition’s National Chairman, Mukaila Ogunbote, the protest has become inevitable due to the persistent delay in meeting the pensioners’ statutory financial obligations. meanwhile, pensioners of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, have declared their readiness to join a nationwide naked protest slated for December 8...