Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers says the resignation of the the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT) Chairman, Sen. Walid Jubrin is a distraction. Governor Wike, who made the remark at Ahoada on Thursday, described it as charade. Jubrin who resigned his position yesterday, said that his...
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By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, has no plan to resign his position, Mr Simon Imobo-Tswana, his Special Adviser on Media and Communication, has said. Imobo-Tswam made the clarification in a statement on Monday in Abuja. “We restate,...
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as interim president before the chief justice on Friday. Wickremesinghe was sworn in following the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Earlier, Sri Lanka’s Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, announced the official resignation of President Rajapaksa, and that Prime Minister Ranil...
Veteran Nigerian actor Kenneth Okonkwo, has resigned his membership of the All Progressive Congress (APC) over its Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket for 2023. The actor made this known on his official Instagram page. He stated that APC’s Muslim-Muslim ticket would permanently destroy the political viability of Christians in the north...
The All Progressive Congress (APC) has denied the reports making the rounds that its National Legal Adviser, Mr Ahmad El-Marzuq has resigned from the party. Mr Felix Morka, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja while reacting to the purported reports which...
Scandal-ridden Boris Johnson announced on Thursday he would quit as British prime minister after he dramatically lost the support of his ministers and most Conservative lawmakers, but said he would stay on on a caretaker basis until his successor was chosen. Bowing to the inevitable as more than 50...
Boris Johnson has planned a July wedding party with his wife, Carrie, at his prime ministerial retreat, multiple sources have said. Johnson, who resigned on Thursday, and his wife have sent save-the-date invitations to guests to the party at Chequers, the prime minister’s grace-and-favour home in Buckinghamshire, at the...
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) on Wednesday, asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign or be impeached over his alleged perennial failure to take decisive action on terrorists. HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, also said the Buhari government and the military are fine...
The Bauchi State Deputy Governor, Sen. Baba Tela, says reports on his purported resignation only exists in the writer’s imagination. This is contained in a issued by Tella’s Press Secretary, Malam Sani Ilelah, on Thursday in Bauchi. ”Reports on my purported resignation is not only fake, but also the...
Following the resignation of Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad as the Chief Justice of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to swear in Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as the new Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) on Monday. Recall that Muhammad resigned his appointment on health grounds and in the face of loss of...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to swear in Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as the next Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) after the resignation of Justice Tanko Muhammad. Justice Ariwoola who is the most senior Justice of the Supreme Court will be sworn-in by President Buhari...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, has resigned. Sources said that Justice Muhammad resigned on Sunday night, citing ill-health as the reason for his decision. Information also has it that arrangements are ongoing to swear in the next most senior justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Olukayode...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – The Minister of State for Education, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba has resigned his position following President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive that all cabinet members vying for elective offices in the 2023 elections, should resign before May 16. The President’s directive was made known on Wednesday, at...
The Zamfara Chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) says Gov. Bello Matawalle, would not resign his position as the state governor, as demanded by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The PDP had urged the governor to resign following his defection from PDP to APC, as well as his inability to...
Sudan’s civilian Prime Minister, Abdalla Hamdok resigned Sunday, more than two months after a coup and following another deadly crackdown on protesters, with the military now firmly in control. Sudan had been undergoing a fragile journey toward civilian rule since the 2019 ouster of autocrat Omar al-Bashir but was...
The Gombe state chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied report alleging mass resignation of its ward executives in Yamaltu/Deba Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. Mr Moses Kyari, the state APC publicity secretary disclosed this when he addressed newsmen on Thursday in Gombe. Kyari was reacting...
Sweden’s Prime Minister-elect Magdalena Andersson on Wednesday handed in her resignation hours after being appointed by parliament after her budget failed to pass and the junior Green Party quit the coalition government. While her stint was unexpectedly brief, Andersson made history by becoming the first woman elected to the...