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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine and the U.S. have reached an agreement on a framework for a broad economic deal that would include access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, three senior Ukrainian officials said Tuesday. The officials, who were familiar with the matter, spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. One of them said …

President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, presided over the National Caucus meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC), marking the first such gathering since he assumed office on May 29, 2023. The high-level meeting is taking place at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja, with key party leaders in attendance. It serves as a precursor to the National Executive Council (NEC) …

Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan filed the matter following a Facebook post allegedly by an aide to Mr Akpabio claiming she had little understanding of legislative rules and that being a lawmaker was not solely about “pancaking her face and wearing transparent outfits to the chambers. Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has taken legal action against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, over alleged …

This week’s G20 finance meeting must galvanise a global climate agenda to mitigate the grave impact of the US withdrawal. On his first day in office, United States (US) President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw his country from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Paris Agreement. This latest plunge of the US climate change rollercoaster may be …

Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Special Offences Court in Lagos has turned down the bid to stop the hearing of the corruption allegations against the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. Giving his ruling on Wednesday, Oshodi dismissed Emefiele’s request to recuse himself from the trial, noting that the allegations of bias against him were …

Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said the nation was not getting accurate vote counts during elections due to the involvement of those he described as ‘ghost voters.’ He also said it is better and more honourable for the chairman and other officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission to resign rather than yield to pressure to manipulate elections. Jonathan …

The group is also demanding compensation for their families and the naming of a national monument in Saro-Wiwa’s honor.   An environmental advocacy group, Clean Environmental Foundation (CEF), has called on President Bola Tinubu to grant a state pardon to the late Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni leaders executed under the military regime of late General Sani Abacha.  The group is …

CNN — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says a draft deal with the US on resources is a “framework” whose success depends on Donald Trump as it emerged the text, a draft of which was obtained by CNN, stops well short of providing Kyiv explicit security guarantees. With Trump bent on bringing Russia’s war to a swift end and recouping some of Washington’s …

Joseph Aloba, the father of the late singer Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, has refuted claims that he dismissed the nurse who reportedly treated his son before his death. Aloba’s remarks come in response to allegations made by Mohbad’s widow, Wunmi, during an interview with media personality Chudity on February 19. Mohbad’s father, Joseph Aloba Wunmi had claimed that …

President Bola Tinubu has said that he would set up a committee to align the census budget to the government’s present financial realities. The move is a step closer to conducting a new national population and housing census with biometric and digital components. The nation last held a census in November 2006. The President disclosed this at a meeting at …