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The Peoples Democratic Party Caretaker Committee, backed by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has pledged to deliver ”an all-inclusive convention that every member of the party will be happy with.” The National Chairman, Abdulrahman Mohammed, made this known after the faction’s NCC meeting held on Tuesday in Abuja. He said that the caretaker committee was working …

The management and staff of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the People’s Democratic Institute (PDI) have reaffirmed their allegiance to the Tanimu Turaki-led National Working Committee (NWC). In a joint statement on Tuesday in Abuja, 76 listed staff declared that they would not recognise any leadership alternative to the NWC elected during the party’s national convention held in Ibadan …

The Police Command in Benue has confirmed the killing of a mobile officer and four civilians by armed bandits at Abande, Kwande Local Government Area of the state. The command’s spokesperson, DSP Edet Udeme, confirmed the killings in a statement on Wednesday in Makurdi. Udeme said the Divisional Police Officer, Jato-Aka, Kwande LGA, on 3rd February received information that suspected …

Troops of Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), have destroyed three notorious detention facilities operated by Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists deep inside the forested Timbuktu Triangle and eliminated 32 fighters. This is contained in a statement by the Media Information Officer, Headquarters OPHK, Lt.-Col. Sani Uba, on Wednesday. Uba said the facilities, uncovered during sustained offensive operations over the …

The Federal Government has approved 28 new Field Development Plans (FDPs) valued at about $18.2 billion, with an estimated reserve potential of 1.4 billion barrels, in 2025. The government also disclosed that between 2024 and 2025, four of the seven major Final Investment Decisions (FIDs) announced across Africa were in Nigeria, attributing the development to policy clarity and improved governance. …

Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State, have agreed to testify in the congressional investigation into late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It comes days before a vote on whether to hold the couple in criminal contempt for refusing to appear before the House Oversight Committee after a months-long standoff. Bill Clinton was …

Russia launched its biggest missile and drone attack on Ukraine so far this year on Tuesday, according to Ukrainian authorities, cutting heat to tens of thousands of people and ending a brief reprieve agreed to by Moscow and Washington as Ukrainians grapple with plummeting winter temperatures. CNN staff in the capital Kyiv reported hearing several strong explosions in the city …

US President Donald Trump’s decision to lower reciprocal tariffs on India from 50% to 18% has been met with a sense of relief in Asia’s third-largest economy, even as precise details on the agreement remain sketchy. India paid the highest tariffs in the world after Trump raised import duties on Indian goods from 25% to 50% in August last year, …

  Newly-released documents from disgraced … The major headlines from the latest dump of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein focus on President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and the former Prince Andrew, among others. And rightly so. Those names are sprinkled throughout the documents. Epstein’s alleged victims, meanwhile, were horrified that the …

A former two-term PDP National Ex-Officio, Mr David Vaughan (DAKOVA), says party’s founding fathers and the Board of Trustees (BoT) must urgently intervene in the lingering leadership crisis threatening its survival ahead of 2027. Vaughan, who was also a PDP governorship aspirant in Lagos State in 2023, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) …