Politics

The national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said that the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, has ensured the role of the First Lady is never questioned.

Tinubu stated this at the public presentation of Aisha’s biography tagged, ‘Aisha Buhari: Being different,” on Thursday.’

The book was written by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Administration and Women Affairs, Dr Hajo Sani.

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Tinubu, who was the chairman of the occasion, said, “Given the First Lady’s achievements, no one can reasonably question the role …

President Alassane Ouattara of Ivory Coast on Wednesday stated that Ex-President Laurent Gbagbo and his former right-hand man Charles Ble Goude are ‘free to return to Ivory Coast when they want’ after they were definitively acquitted of crimes against humanity by the ICC.

At the commencement of a cabinet meeting in Abidjan, Ouattara said; ‘Arrangements will be made so that Laurent Gbagbo can enjoy, in accordance with the laws in place, the advantages and allowances available to former presidents,’

He spoke a week after the International Criminal Court (ICC) upheld Gbagbo’s acquittal, with appeals judges confirming that he was …

The Biden led-administration on Wednesday said it is ‘disturbed’ by reports that jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s health was deteriorating, urging Kremlin authorities to take actions to ensure his health and safety.

Navalny, who is easily President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic was arrested in January and sentenced to 2 1/2 years in jail for violating terms of his parole from an earlier suspended sentence, has been on a hunger strike for about a week in demand of outside medical attention.

His lawyers on Wednesday said his health has been rapidly degrading. Navalny, 44, was moved to the sick …

The Governor of Hope Uzodinma on Wednesday stated that the attack on security facilities in the state is the handiwork of aggrieved politicians and not members of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB).

Uzodinma made this assertion when he spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday.

According to him, the tactics of the disgruntled politicians was that at first, they would try to identify grievances of people in a particular area and used them to achieve political gains.

He said if it is in Imo State and ‘probably there are some IPOB people who are not happy, …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum has issued a warning to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop poaching its governors or persuading them to join its fold.

This warning was issued by the chairman of the forum, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal who spoke when he led a delegation of PDP governors on a commiseration visit to the Governor of Zamfara State, Dr. Bello Mohammed Matawalle in Gusau on Wednesday.

Tambuwal was accompanied on the visit by the governors of Rivers State, Oyo, Taraba, Bauchi, and Adamawa.

Tambuwal said instead of genuinely commiserating with the people of Zamfara …

The US is set to start talks with EU negotiators in Austria’s capital Vienna aimed at salvaging an international agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme, which Washington withdrew from in 2018.

US President Joe Biden has said he is ready to reverse the decision of his predecessor Donald Trump and return to the 2015 agreement, which was supposed to ensure that Iran never developed a military nuclear programme.

But Iran is demanding an end to crippling sanctions imposed by Trump and has refused to meet US negotiators at the latest talks, meaning European players will act as intermediaries.

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Ex-Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan has blamed Nigeria’s backwardness on the tradition of favouritism in leadership positions among families, friends, acquaintances rather than the ability and capability to deliver.

Jonathan made this assertion on Tuesday at the Palace of the Emir of Bauchi during a one-day working visit.

According to him, the tradition in Nigeria is that before one can be appointed to an office or given a responsibility, he must know someone at the top echelon in the country, regretting that the development has taken the nation backward.

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The former president, …