The court ruling preventing the People’s Democratic Party(pdp) from conducting its national convention has been characterised by Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike as bringing down impunity. Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday halted…
The Peoples Democratic Party’s(pdp) planned national convention, which was set to take place in Ibadan, Oyo State, on November 15 and 16, was halted by the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday, till further notice. In a lawsuit with…
Protests over Tanzania’s disputed presidential election have entered the third day, with reports indicating hundreds of people may have been killed following the accompanying violence. Following the election, protests started to gather in the East African nation on Wednesday, leading…
More than 500,000 bottles of the blood pressure medicine prazosin hydrochloride have been recalled by pharmaceutical companies, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, due to fears that the pill may contain a chemical that causes cancer. The FDA…
The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to remove certain NGOs from a popular student loan forgiveness program if their operations are judged to have a “substantial illegal purpose.” This action may prevent certain public employees, including teachers and…
Justice Ayo Salami, a former president of the Court of Appeal, has clarified why former president Goodluck Jonathan is not eligible to run for president in 2027. According to Salami, the former president cannot run for office again in 2027…
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB), has submitted a new plea to the Federal High Court in Abuja, requesting that all charges against him be dropped and that he be released immediately. In the…
Two military officers are reportedly on the run after being identified as part of a plot to overthrow Nigeria’s democracy. Following questioning 16 of the military officials who were detained during the first week of October in connection with the…
The identities and service records of sixteen senior Nigerian military officers detained over an alleged coup plot against President Bola Tinubu’s government have been revealed in an exclusive investigation by Premium Times. The officers ho attempted the coup, who are…
The primaries for different political parties which held at various times between last week and Tuesday April 8, have produced the candidates for the six political parties vying for the number one seat in Anambra State. Chioma Ifemeludike, a Nigerian…
The ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) now has the full support of the Enugu State caucus in the House of Representatives, following a mass defection of all the states reps. Speaker of the House Tajudeen Abbas revealed the defection on Thursday…
Bauchi State government has proposed creation of another 29 additional local government areas in addition to the existing 20 local government areas recognized by the 1999 constitution. With about 10 million estimated population the state will have 49 LGAs. In…
A fire tragic fire incident has reportedly occurred at the Jabi Lake Mall, Abuja in the early hours of Thursday. As of the time this report was filed, the cause of the fire, which began at around three in the…
US President Donald Trump ordered the US military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons, for the first time in 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. While travelling by Marine One chopper to…
The deputy governor of Bayelsa State, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, has sued the state parliament over a purported attempt to remove him from office. Ewhrudjakpo claimed in the original summons, FHC/ABJ/CS/221/2025, that members of the Bayelsa parliament were pressuring him to resign…