Nigeria has tasked the United Nations (UN), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank on reforms to achieve sustainable development goals Geoffrey Onyeama , the Minister of Foreign Affairs, made the remark while speaking at the 1st Foreign Ministers’ Meeting at the G20 Summit in New Delhi, India, underscored the need to reform the UN along the line of its three pillars – Peace and Security, Development and Human Rights. Onyeama said that...

Prof. Charles Soludo, Anambra State governor has called on Anambra people  to vote for the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidates in the Saturday, March 11, 2023 State Assembly poll. Governor Soludo who is also the National Leader of APGA said that voting APGA candidates in the election would make for a peaceful State Assembly that would work in harmony with him to develop the state. Speaking  through  his Press  Secretary, Christian Aburime, Soludo said,...

Senator James Manager has expressed displeasure over rumour that he resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join the All progressives Congress (APC) A press statement signed by Elliot Otobo Ugbome, Special Assistant to Senator James Manager, described the rumour as handwork of mischief makers which should be thrown to the dust bin. He said, “This is to officially inform the general public that there is no iota of truth in the rumours that...

Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu for promising to deliver credible governorship and House of Assembly elections on March 11. While describing his comment as medicine after death, Atiku also faulted Prof. Yakubu, for saying that INEC staff found to be negligent during the presidential election would be barred from engaging in the March 11 governorship poll....

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, on Thursday, congratulated Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on his victory in the February 25 presidential election. The Ukrainian president took to Twitter to send his compliments a day after Tinubu was declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). He expressed optimism that Ukraine-Nigeria bilateral relations will be strengthened. Congratulations to @officialABAT on winning the Nigerian presidential election. I look forward to close...

Ahead of the 11th March, governorship election, the Igbo community in Lagos State has endorsed Dr.  Olajide Adediran, popularly called Jandor and the Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate as the group’s preferred candidate for the election. At an endorsement parley that witnessed a large turnout of Ndigbo residents in Lagos, the PDP gubernatorial candidate was officially endorsed by the council of Eze Ndigbo and Igbo Communities. Eze David Nwosu, the Eze of...

The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has congratulated the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and urged him to justify his victory by delivering on  the dividend of democracy to all Nigerians, irrespective of tribe, religion or political affiliations. The group in a congratulatory message said that Tinubu’s victory would bring some measures of pride to those who made sacrifices in the struggle for June 12. OPC in the congratulatory message on Saturday signed by  Otunba Wasiu Afolabi,...

Ahead of the governorship and House of Assembly elections, Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has charged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to clamp down on illicit funds flow transactions by corrupt politicians and their cahoots with the commercial banks, as well as vote buying in the country. Olanrewaju Suraju, chairman of HEDA in a statement issued on Saturday maintained that the circulation of...