Author: Alade Adisa

The Federal Government has promised to wade into the leadership problem rocking the Senate following the suspension of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the member representing Kogi Central Senatorial District. The Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Iman Suleiman-Ibrahim, who disclosed the government’s intention, told State House correspondents during the Meet-the-Press Programme at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday, “We’re engaging all the stakeholders to ensure that they temper justice with mercy.” The minister spoke a day after the 10th Senate suspended Natasha for six months. The Kogi lawmaker had submitted a petition alleging she had been sexually harassed by the Senate President,…

Russia’s latest aerial barrage against targets in Ukraine is not dampening expectations by U.S. President Donald Trump that he can broker a deal to end the fighting between Moscow and Kyiv. Ukrainian officials Friday accused Russia of launching more than 200 overnight missile and drone strikes against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure across a broad swath of the nation, hitting targets in five regions while damaging residential buildings and injuring residents. But Trump, speaking to reporters Friday in the Oval Office, said he takes Russian President Vladimir Putin at his word when Putin says he wants peace. “I believe him. I think…

…Assure of quick resolution of ordeal Senators from opposition political parties on Friday visited senator representing Kogi central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who was recently suspended at her home. A former governor of Bayelsa State,Seriake Dickson led the delegation. Dickson, a member of the senate’s ethics and privileges committee that recommended Akpoti-Uduaghan’s suspension, shared a photo of the visit on his social media pages. He said his engagement with the tax reform bills kept him away from senate proceedings on the day of Akpoti-Uduaghan’s suspension. The former governor said, “The public may recall that, for the past three days, I was attending…

.President Donald Trump today discussed the possibility of a new nuclear deal between the United States and Iran, telling reporters that “there’ll be some interesting days ahead, that’s all I can tell you.” “We’re down to final strokes with Iran,” Trump said at the White House. “We can’t let them have a nuclear weapon.” “We have a situation with Iran that something’s going to happen very soon, very, very soon, you’ll be talking about that pretty soon, I guess, and hopefully we can have a peace deal,” he added. Trump said in Fox Business News interview that he sent a…

The Donald Trump administration announced on Friday that it had canceled $400m in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University in New York because of what it alleges as the college’s repeated failure to protect students from antisemitic harassment. The announcement comes after Columbia set up a new disciplinary committee and initiated its own investigations into students critical of Israel and its war on Gaza after Hamas’ own attack on Israel. That move by the university has alarmed advocates of free speech. It also comes at a time of widespread backlash to American universities by the Trump administration and conservatives…

We need Russia to stop attacks, Zelenskyy says, backing calls for truce in air, at sea Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has responded to overnight attacks by Russia, saying that “the first steps toward real peace must include forcing the sole source of this war, Russia, to stop such attacks against life.” He also reiterated his call for a limited truce in the skies and at sea, as originally proposed by French president Emmanuel Macron. Here is what he said: ”Last night, the Russian army carried out another massive attack on our energy infrastructure. ”Various facilities were targeted in several regions…

The United States and Israel have rejected a Gaza Strip reconstruction plan that sees the devastated enclave being fully rebuilt without displacing Palestinians, as envisioned under President Donald Trump’s proposal to transform the territory into the “Riviera of the Middle East.” Under the $53 billion reconstruction plan proposed by Egypt at an emergency summit in Cairo on Tuesday, Gaza, which has been largely destroyed in Israel’s nearly year-and-a-half military offensive in the enclave, would be rebuilt over the span of under six years. Artificial intelligence-labelled images, released as part of a version of the plan agreed at a summit that…

A former presidential media aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has challenged just-suspended lawmaker, Senator Natasha Akpoti to undergo a lie detector test following her allegations of sexual harassment against Senate President Godswill Akpabio. In a detailed video posted on social media, Omokri revealed that Akpoti-Uduaghan made similar allegations against him in 2021. He said: “On Tuesday, October 12, 2021, Natasha Akpoti had a dispute with me and after the dispute, she went on social media and accused me of sexually harassing her. “She claimed that at a state banquet at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, held by President…

Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has announced her intention to challenge the six-month suspension slammed on her after her spat with the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio over seating arrangements in the senate in court. Victor Giwa, the legal counsel to the Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan, dismissed the Senate resolution as a violation of a court order. Giwa spoke with journalists on Thursday after the Kogi lawmaker was suspended by the senate and walked out from the National Assembly complex. This comes as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi expressed displeasure over the handling…

President Bola Tinubu has approved the employment of 774 National Health Fellows, a pivotal initiative led by the Federal Ministry of Health to foster sustained improvements within Nigeria’s healthcare system. The president announced the fellows‘ employment on Thursday during the programme’s launch at the State House in Abuja. Nigeria’s development partners, senior government officials, and traditional leaders, including the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III attended the ceremony. The employment of these fellows, selected from each local council, stemmed from the recommendation of Professor Ali Pate, Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare. Professor Pate lauded their selection as the…