President Bola Tinubu on Friday approved the posting of 65 ambassadors-designate to Nigeria’s foreign missions and the United Nations.
The envoys comprise 31 non-career and 34 career ambassadors whose nominations were confirmed by the Senate in December, 2025.
This is contained in a statement issued by the President’s spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, in Abuja.
An 18-year-old, Samad Olalere, and six others were on Friday docked at an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court Ibadan over alleged impersonation on social media.
They are: Daud Ademola, 26, George Thomas, 24, Kim Aruna, 23, Martins Sunday, 26, Mubarak Alade, 21 and Thomas Williams, 21.
They were charged with impersonation, to which they pleaded not guilty.
The Court of Appeal in Ibadan, on Friday, advised the two Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) factions to amicably resolve their differences in the interest of the party.
Reports said that Abdulrahman Mohammed-led faction had, on Nov. 25, 2025, gotten judgment from the Federal High Court, Ibadan invalidating the outcome of the party’s convention held on Nov. 15 and Nov. 16, 2025 in Ibadan.
However, Justice Ladiran Akintola of the Oyo State High Court, in a judgment delivered on Feb. 25 in another suit filed by Tanimu Turaki faction, held that the Ibadan PDP convention fulfilled the requirements of the PDP’s constitution and the Electoral Act and was, therefore, validly held.
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has elected new state executive members to steer the affairs of the party in Kano
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An interest group within African Democratic Congress (ADC), ADC Grassroots Mobilisation for Change (AGMC), has decried Sunday’s attack on some party chieftains during a meeting in Edo.
The group, in a statement issued by Director of Communications, Mr Andrew Iguebor, on Tuesday in Abuja, said that the attack occurred at the residence of the party’s National Legal Officer, Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor, in Iruekpen.
The Federal Government has unlocked a 552 million dollars HOPE for Quality Basic Education for All (HOPE-EDU) programme to accelerate basic education reform across the country.
This is contained in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja by Boriowo Folasade, Director Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Education.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has disclosed that it recovered suspected wiretapping equipment from the Abuja residence of former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai.
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The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan, has said the commission cannot guarantee a 100 per cent perfect election in 2027, particularly with regard to electronic transmission of results.
Amupitan made the disclosure on Sunday during a Citizens’ Townhall Meeting organised by the Civil Society Network on Election Integrity at the Abuja Continental Hotel.
The Presidency has dismissed as false a viral social media claim alleging that a kitchen staff member at the State House attempted to poison President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
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A policy group, the Independent Media and Policy Initiatives (IMPI), says President Bola Tinubu has turn around Nigeria’s economy by deploying economic tools.
The group said this in a statement issued by its Chairman, Dr Omoniyi Akinsiju.
Akinsiju said that it was the best way to wean the country off decades of profligacy.
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