Author: Alade Adisa

The Rivers State House of Assembly members loyal to Federal Captal Territory minister, Nyesom Wike have issued a 48-hour deadline to Governor Siminalayi Fubara, demanding that he present the 2025 appropriation bill. The Martin Amaewhule-led faction issued the oultimatum during the faction’s plenary session on Monday. Rivers State’s legislature has been deeply divided due to the ongoing political rift between Governor Fubara and Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Amaewhule-led faction of the assembly remains loyal to Wike. In January 2025, Fubara had already signed the 2025 appropriation bill into law after it was passed…

UK prime minister, Keir Starmer and a host of leaders, including Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Emmanuel Macron met in London to discuss ending the Russia-Ukraine war. Europe is “at a crossroads in history”, said Keir Starmer as he hosted 18 leaders at a Lancaster House summit in London to discuss a new plan for peace in Ukraine. The UK, France and others will work with Ukraine on a plan to stop the fighting, and discuss that plan with the US, “and take it forward together”, the prime minister said. Addressing the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was sitting alongside him, Starmer…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday hosted a distinguished gathering that included his predecessor, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, former Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and ex-Senate President Bukola Saraki, who attended with his wife, Toyin. The Ooni of Ile-Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi was also present at the event, which took place at The Delborough Hotel on Victoria Island, Lagos. Atiku, who served as Obasanjo’s vice president from 1999 to 2007, confirmed the meeting in a post on his X handle. He wrote, “I joined others at the dinner hosted by my former boss, former President Olusegun…

The Nigeria Labour Congress has notified its affiliates to prepare for nationwide protests if the Federal Government implements the telecommunication services charge contrary to the terms agreed by the 10-man committee.  The National Executive Council of the NLC took the decision during a meeting in Yola, Adamawa State, where the congress inaugurated its Compressed Natural Gas-driven Mass Transit Buses for the North East Zone and discussed the economic challenges facing Nigerian workers. Disclosing the protest notice in a statement released on Sunday, the NLC warned that any further increase in electricity tariffs would be met with strong resistance. It also…

A former presidential aide, Reno Omokri has weighed in on the sexual harassment saga going on in the Senate. The former Special Assistant to President Jonathan Goodluck said due to the fact that the woman in the eyes of the present storm, Senator Natasha Akpoti had likewise accused him of the same allegations, several media outlets had been pestering him to hear his take on the unfolding drama. The author, columnist, and social media influencer wrote on his X page on Saturday afternoon: ”Please leave me out of the Natasha Akpoti affair. I have been inundated with calls from almost…

Former Senate President Bukola Saraki has reacted to the ongoing allegations of sexual harassment leveled against the current Senate President, Godswill Akpabio by the Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. In a statement personally signed by him and titled “Akpabio-Natasha: Let’s Protect the Institution, Not Individuals,” Saraki called for “an open, transparent, and honest investigation by the Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions” to determine the accuracy of the allegations raised by Senator Natasha. Saraki, who presided over the Eighth Senate, emphasized that only an open and honest investigation would prevent the Parliament from being perceived as an institution…

Goalkeepers who waste time by holding on to the ball are to be penalised with the award of a corner, the law-making International Football Association Board (IFAB) has confirmed. The new law, which will be introduced this summer, will mean goalkeepers have eight seconds to claim and redistribute the ball before they are penalised, with the referee giving a five-second countdown to warn them of incoming punishment. This will replace the current system whereby a keeper has six seconds to move the ball on and is punished with an indirect free-kick if they do not. “Goalkeepers holding on to the…

The State Department has terminated a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) initiative that has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to help restore Ukraine’s energy grid from attacks by the Russian military, according to two USAID officials working on the agency’s Ukraine mission. Power outages have been applied overnight in some regions of Ukraine due to the attacks on energy facilities. The country’s systems have sustained near-constant impact throughout the course of the three-year war. “It significantly undercuts this administration’s abilities to negotiate on the ceasefire, and it’d signal to Russia that we don’t care about Ukraine or our…

Woman in the eye of the storm, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has told wife of Senate President, Mrs. Unoma Akpabio to stay out of the allegations of sexual harassment and intimidation against her husband, Godswill Akpabio. The Senator representing Kogi Central got enmeshed in a dispute with Akpabio began after she refused to sit in a designated seat during a Senate session, citing Order 10 of the Senate Standing Rules. Therefrom, all hell broke loose when the PDP senator, appearing on Arise News on Friday, accused the senate foremost figure of blocking her motions, maligning her, and intimidating her after she…

Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey after a landmark call by the jailed PKK leader, Abdullah Öcalan, asking the group to disband. It was the first reaction from the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) after Öcalan this week called for the dissolution of the group and asked it to lay down arms after fighting the Turkish state for more than four decades. “In order to pave the way for the implementation of leader Apo’s call for peace and democratic society, we are declaring a ceasefire effective from today,” the PKK executive committee said, referring to Öcalan and…