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SPEECH BY THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF POLICE, IGP USMAN ALKALI BABA, psc(+), NPM, fdc, NEAPS, CFR AT MEETING WITH POLITICAL PARTIES AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS IN PREPARATION FOR THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS AT THE FORCE HEADQUARTERS ABUJA ON THURSDAY, 17TH NOVEMBER, 2022 Protocols ​I welcome you all to this critical meeting between the Nigeria Police Force and strategic leaders across national security ... Read More »

Former UFC champion Israel Adesanya was arrested Wednesday at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York for possession of “metal knuckles,” a spokesperson for the Port Authority Police Department confirmed with ESPN. The time of the arrest was 1:57 p.m., per police. According to Adesanya’s manager, Tim Simpson, the UFC star was traveling home to New Zealand on Wednesday ... Read More »

Recently when I think of Ayo Adebanjo, I remember Ernest Hemmingway’s novella, The Old Man and the Sea. It is a small but resonant epic. But it is a story that the Nobel Prize winner who died a suicide compels biographers to see as his self-portrait. When French hero and leader Charles De Gaulle stepped into his twilight, he recalled ... Read More »

COMMENCEMENT SPEECH BY DR KINGSLEY OBIORA, DEPUTY GOVERNOR (ECONOMIC POLICY) CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA AT THE 2022 CONVOCATION AND 74TH FOUNDATION DAY CEREMONIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN MAIN HALL, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN 15 NOVEMBER 2022 ______________________________ Good morning your royalties and eminences, the Chancellor, the Pro-Chancellor, the Vice Chancellor, other principal officers of the university, my ... Read More »

N …says choice of Shettima has nothing to do with religion Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has assured the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria that he will not run his administration on the basis of religion if elected President of Nigeria. Tinubu who met with the CAN leadership in Abuja on Wednesday ... Read More »

The Osun Election Petitions Tribunal on Wednesday granted subpoena compelling the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state, to produce the nomination form and academic certificates used by Sen. Ademola Adeleke in the 2018 governorship election. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalled that Gov. Adegboyega Oyetola and APC had on Aug. 5 submitted ... Read More »

The police in Ekiti State, on Wednesday, took over the state House of Assembly complex in a bid to forestall an alleged planned invasion of the legislative building. This came less than 24 hours after the Assembly elected its former Leader of Government Business, Gboyega Aribisogan, as the new Speaker. The armed policemen were stationed at strategic locations in the ... Read More »

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday, November 16 vowed to uphold press freedom if he wins the 2023 presidential election. Atiku made the promise when he engaged members of the Nigerian Guild of Editors [NGE] in Lagos state. Giving accolades to the Nigerian media, the former Vice President said: “I want to pay ... Read More »

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has mourned the passage of a State House of Assembly member, representing Mushin II State Constituency, Hon. Sobur Olayiwola Olawale. He described the death of the lawmaker as shocking and a great loss to the State. The Governor commiserated with the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa and ... Read More »

It is exactly 100 days today before polling units open at 8.30am on Saturday 25th February 2023 for national elections (Presidential and National Assembly) and two weeks later on Saturday 11th March 2023 for State elections (Governorship and State Houses of Assembly). Once again, another General Election is upon us, the 7th since the restoration of democracy in Nigeria in ... Read More »