Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25, presidential election, has asked the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) for an order allowing live broadcast of the day to day proceedings of the court. The former Vice President is one of the petitioner’s challenging the victory of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu,  the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate and the President-elect in that election. Atiku and the PDP in an application...

Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, former Minister of Foreign Affairs has expressed the need for the British colonists to return the loot taken away from African countries. Akinyemi, during an interview on Monday, stated that King Charles III should take a view different from his mother, Queen Elizabeth II and address issues of slavery, loot and reparation. Akinyemi said, “The key issue that will determine the British’s relationship with the rest of the world, with the commonwealth,...

The 35-member Labour Party caucus in the 10th Assembly of the House of Representatives has elected Hon. Afam Victor Ogene as its Leader. Hon. Ogene, a ranking member from the 7th Assembly, emerged as the Labour Party leader with 21 votes, after a keenly contested election yesterday in Abuja. Although 34 Members-Elect of the Party were present at the voting session, only 31 of them took part in the exercise, with the trio of Honourables...

The Managing Director and CEO of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, NSIA, Mr. Umar-Sadiq, say Enugu will serve as a site for NSIA’s first oncology centre in the South East. The MD stated this at the official transfer of the Enugu State Medical Diagnostic Centre to NSIA for rehabilitation, upgrading, and re-operationalization of the health facility to a comprehensive diagnostic and oncology (cancer) treatment centre in line with NSIA’s healthcare expansion programme. “NSIA is excited...

The Igbo ethnic group in Nigeria is known for their entrepreneurial spirit which has been wrongly interpreted as the ‘love of money’ by other ethnic groups. The enterprising skills of the Igbos make them migrate in droves away from their cultural enclave in southeastern Nigeria to other parts of Nigeria and beyond where they establish different lines of business ventures, which turn out to be successful in a few years. In recent times, the entrepreneurial...