Author: Vincent Osuwo

Gabriel Suswam, a former governor of Benue State and senator, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party over claims of internal conflicts and a lack of unity within the opposition party. Suswam’s resignation letter was dated Wednesday, February 4, 2026, and sent to the Chairman of the PDP in Mbagber Council Ward, Logo Local Government Area, Benue State. The letter was released on Facebook by his Chief of Staff, Moses Ukeyima. In the letter, the former governor stated that his decision was motivated by the party’s failure to settle chronic internal problems impacting its leadership, structure, discipline, and ideological direction.…

The Edo State Police Command apprehended two suspected kidnappers during a patrol of the Auchi-Igarra Highway in Edo North, police stated on Wednesday. According to a statement issued on Wednesday by the state command’s Public Relations Officer, Eno Ikoedem, the suspects were identified by a vigilante member as members of a kidnapping racket. “The Edo State Police Command has recorded significant successes in the fight against kidnapping through proactive patrols and sustained intelligence-led operations in Igarra and its environs, in line with the crime-fighting strategies of the Commissioner of Police, Edo State Command, CP Monday Agbonika, fdc,” the statement read.…

Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has stated that the opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC) does not provide a significant threat to the ruling party. Yilwatda made the statement on Tuesday while discussing politics on Channels Television. He minimized the political power of the individuals leading the opposition coalition under the ADC today. “ADC is not a match at all for the APC. For every one person they have, we have five or six of them,” he said. He also belittled the political weight of some opposition leaders, including the ADC national chairman and former…

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, yesterday, in a remark aimed at the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, declared that expelled elements he described as “vagabonds” no longer have control over the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In the run-up to the general elections in 2023, Wike and Makinde were both part of the G5 governors, but they split up soon after the election. Speaking yesterday during the Oyo PDP Secretariat’s commissioning in Oke Ado, Ibadan, Makinde claimed that the PDP’s “vagabonds” were ejected in November 2025 and blamed the party’s problems on a leadership void that developed…

The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) deepened on Tuesday when governors elected on the party’s platform rejected moves by a caretaker committee led by Nyesom Wike to reschedule the party’s national convention and dissolve key zonal structures, claiming that the faction lacked constitutional authority to do so. The caretaker committee, backed by Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Wike, moved the party’s national convention from March 28 to March 29 and 30. Jungudo Mohammed, the Caretaker Committee Publicity Secretary, made the announcement in Abuja on Tuesday, following the National Working Committee meeting that dissolved the Southwest, Northwest, and…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and a civil society group, the Eagle Crime Awareness and Prevention Initiative, have pledged to intensify the seizure of assets linked to drug trafficking and properties used to harbor drug dealers across Lagos State. This was revealed in a statement by the founder and president of ECAPI, Sam Adams, on Tuesday and obtained by Chronicle NG. According to him, the promise was made on Saturday during a massive anti-drug advocacy campaign organized by the Lagos State Strategic Command of the NDLEA in collaboration with ECAPI, as the agencies took their sensitization drive to…

Terrorists in separate attacks on communities in Katsina and Kwara states killed no fewer than 30 people on Tuesday as assailants renewed violent assaults on rural settlements, razing houses and vehicles and forcing residents to flee. In Katsina State, over 20 persons were killed when bandits attacked the Doma community in Tafoki Ward, Faskari Local Government Area. Residents said the terrorists stormed the area unhindered, killing villagers and setting houses and vehicles ablaze before fleeing. Confirming the incident, Surajo Aliyu, the Chairman of Faskari Local Government Area, described the attack as a reprisal and the deadliest in the area in…

A 14-year-old student stabbed a 60-year-old art teacher in southern France on Tuesday, leaving the teacher in critical condition, according to a prosecutor. The student was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, according to Raphael Balland, the public prosecutor in the southern city of Toulon. There were no known “religious or political connotations” at this time. “All we know is that there had been tensions with this teacher recently and that he was angry with her,” the prosecutor added during a press briefing. Edouard Geffray, France’s education minister, went to the stabbing scene at La Guicharde secondary school in Sanary-sur-Mer.…

The Kogi State Government has stated that the temporary closure of schools across the state was a preventive move based on credible intelligence and the pressing need to put protective measures in place surrounding schools to protect pupils, students, and teachers. Speaking to reporters in Lokoja on Tuesday, State Commissioner for Information and Communications Kingsley Femi Fanwo said that the decision was not motivated by panic but rather by responsibility, emphasizing that the government chose to act proactively rather than waiting for preventable situations. He said, “Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo has directed all relevant agencies to immediately deploy necessary modalities…

President Bola Tinubu welcomed a high-level delegation from the World Bank at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Tuesday. The delegation was led by Anna Bjerde, Managing Director of Operations at the World Bank. Vice President Kashim Shettima, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Wale Edun, and other government officials attended the meeting. Bayo Onanuga, the president’s special adviser on information and strategy, confirmed the meeting in a post on X. He wrote, “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, along with VP Kashim Shettima, received a delegation from the World Bank led by the Managing Director of Operations, Anna…