Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has declared his willingness to personally lead a campaign for amnesty for Nnamdi Kanu, the jailed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on the condition that Kanu publicly renounces violence. Speaking on Channels Television’s morning programme, The Morning Brief, on Tuesday, Gumi said he would be “in the forefront” of calls for Kanu’s pardon, but only if the separatist leader shows “remorse” and “calls for peace.” “This Kanu...

The United Kingdom has rejected Nigeria’s request to transfer Ike Ekweremadu, the former Deputy Senate President, back to Nigeria to complete his prison sentence. Ekweremadu is serving a nine-year, eight-month sentence in a UK prison after being convicted in 2023 for conspiring to traffic a young man to London to harvest his kidney. Earlier this month, President Bola Tinubu sent a delegation to London in a bid to negotiate Ekweremadu’s return. The team included Yusuf...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed the Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, as the Renewed Hope Ambassador ahead of the national launch of the Federal Government’s ward development programme. The appointment was announced in a State House press statement issued on Tuesday by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga. According to the statement, Governor Uzodimma will also serve as the Director-General for Party Outreach, Engagement and Mobilisation. The President said...

As a permanent solution to end insecurity in Nigeria, the leader of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, on Tuesday said by arresting those financing terrorism will be the surest way to have a peaceful country. In a statement signed by his media aide, Osho Oluwatosin, Primate Ayodele called on President Bola Tinubu to identified them and dealt with them, otherwise all efforts to curb insecurity will be futile. “If the government doesn’t...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who resigned his membership from the People’s Democratic Party PDP in July, has officially joined the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Atiku, while making an official declaration in Jada, Adamawa State, stated that his migration to ADC was due to the prolonged internal crisis within the PDP. Atiku resigned from the PDP after opposition politicians adopted and unveiled the ADC as their political platform ahead of the 2027 presidential election. Atiku...

The founder and pioneer national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Chekwas Okorie, has appealed to Igbo residents in Sokoto State to rally around Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), who is currently in a prison in the North West. Okorie, who described sending the IPOB leader to Sokoto as provocative, stated that the incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu and sending him to Sokoto prison is ominous. The Convener/National...