The Federal Government has summoned Bobby Moroe, Acting High Commissioner of South Africa to Nigeria, over recent xenophobic attacks targeting Nigerians in the former apartheid nation. The meeting, scheduled for Monday at the headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja, is expected to address growing concerns over the safety and treatment of Nigerian citizens abroad. In a statement issued on Saturday, Kimiebi Ebienfa, Director of Public Affairs at the Ministry, said the...

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, and a former governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, have formally joined the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC). The two political figures were officially registered as members of the party on Sunday at its national secretariat in Abuja, where they were issued membership cards in the presence of party officials and supporters. Footage from the event showed Kwankwaso receiving his membership card first, followed...

Celebrity nightlife entrepreneur Pascal Okechukwu has entered partisan politics, declaring his ambition to contest for a seat in the House of Representatives ahead of the 2027 general elections. Okechukwu, widely known as Cubana Chief Priest, said he would seek to represent the Orsu/Orlu/Oru East Federal Constituency of Imo State. He disclosed his plan in a video posted on Instagram on Tuesday, shortly after a visit to the All Progressives Congress (APC) state secretariat, where he...

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has barred the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from recognising or participating in any congress organised by committees appointed by the Senator David Mark-led leadership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). The court, in the judgment on Wednesday delivered by Justice Joyce Abdulmalik, also restrained the Mark-led group from interfering with the tenure and functions of elected state executives of the party. The court held that the responsibility...

The Enugu State Governor, Dr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah, has advised the Executive Intelligence Management Course (EIMC) 19 of the National Institute for Security Studies (NISS) Abuja to examine the concept of tragedy of the commons as the real bane of resource optimization in Nigeria. Addressing the officers on a study tour to Enugu State, Governor Mbah praised the nation as highly endowed with resources but, unfortunately, not utilized appropriately or optimally for the good of...

Senator David Mark-led African Democratic Congress (ADC), has written to the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, seeking the Supreme Court to urgently deliver judgment in a pending appeal involving the party’s leadership crisis. ADC, in a letter dated April 28 to the Chief Justice of Nigeria and signed by its legal counsel, Shuaibu E. Aruwa (SAN), warned that any further delay could threaten its participation in the 2027 general elections. Mark’s legal...