Author: Vincent Osuwo

King Charles III travels to the United States on Monday, with transatlantic tensions over the Iran conflict and the Epstein scandal’s long shadow threatening to overshadow the historic meeting. Buckingham Palace and the British government say the four-day trip will honor the historic ties between the two countries as the US celebrates 250 years of independence. According to the palace, Charles’s first state visit to the United States as monarch is at the invitation of the UK government and President Donald Trump, and he will travel with Queen Camilla. However, as the American leader’s conflict with Iran creates a rare…

Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State announced on Thursday that he is now a “freelance politician” with no ties to any political party. Mohammed made the comments while hosting an African Democratic Congress (ADC) chieftain, Peter Obi, and South-East stakeholders in Bauchi. The governor stated that the meeting focused on national unity and teamwork and that the proceedings were not influenced by partisan considerations. “Neither PDP nor ADC is standing alone. I am a freelance politician now, and his party is also in limbo. We are looking up to the judiciary. “Certainly, we are all in the opposition, and that…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has postponed its presidential primary election, earlier slated for May 15 and 16, to May 23, 2026, while the governorship primaries will now hold on May 21, 2026, in line with a revised timetable for its 2027 general election activities. Duro Meseko, APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary, disclosed this at the conclusion of the 186th National Working Committee meeting in Abuja on Thursday, announcing changes to the previous schedule, including the postponement of key processes such as aspirant screening and appeals consideration. Meseko further revealed that the screening of aspirants, which was originally slated for…

Ben Agir, a serving National Youth Service Corps member, was allegedly beaten to death by community vigilantes in the Buruku Local Government Area of Benue State. According to reports, the incident occurred in the Anibros community during the vigilantes’ night patrol operation. According to a local source, the deceased was apprehended on suspicion of stealing a motorcycle. The Chairman of Buruku LGA, Raymond Aondoakura, confirmed the incident to journalists on Thursday, saying it occurred on Sunday night between 11 p.m. and 12 a.m. The chairman said, “The report came to me on Monday around 4 am. The incident happened at…

President Bola Tinubu has requested that the Senate authorize a new external loan of $516,333,070 to pay sections of the projected Sokoto-Badagry Super Highway, a major project in his administration’s infrastructure program. The proposal, contained in a letter submitted to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, was read during plenary on Thursday, paving the way for legislative consideration of the finance scheme. According to the president, the loan, which is scheduled to come from Deutsche Bank, would help fund the construction of Sections 1, 1A, and 1B of the 1,000-kilometer highway that will connect Nigeria’s North and Southwest corridors. The letter…

The arraignment of four suspects charged in connection with the recent gunmen attack in the Angwa Rukuba Community, Jos, Plateau State, was halted on Thursday due to the absence of defense counsel. The defendants came before Court 12 of the Plateau State High Court in Jos but were not arraigned because they requested an adjournment to call their counsel. On March 28, suspected attackers assaulted settlements in Bokkos and Bassa Local Government Areas, killing at least 30 people, including children. The Plateau State Government has filed charges against the suspects in the March 2026 killings in Angwa Rukuba. According to…

The Cross River government has disputed reports of ten additional COVID-19 symptomatic cases, calling the assertion deceptive and wrong and repeating that only one confirmed case exists in the state. The statement came after a national daily reported that the state had found new people with COVID-19 symptoms, sparking concerns among residents about a potential return of infections throughout areas. It should be noted that Dr. Henry Ayuk, the commissioner for health, already acknowledged a COVID-19 case involving a Chinese national working in the state who is currently undergoing treatment and doing well. In a statement made on Thursday in…

The Chairman of the Labour Party, Nenadi Usman, has stated that it would be too late for the party’s former presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to return and run on its platform ahead of the 2027 election. In an interview with Arise Television’s Prime Time on Wednesday, Usman highlighted electoral guidelines and party procedures as restricting factors. “Well, it will be too late, actually, for him to come back, because if you look at the act now, at some point we close the register, and once we close the register 21 days before primaries, we submit the e-register to INEC. You…

By now, everyone knows President Bola Tinubu’s approach to capturing power. In his own words, it is: “At all costs, fight for it, grab it, snatch it and run with it”. That was how he put it at a pre-election event in London in December 2022. Many would swear that he deployed this buccaneering strategy to secure the presidency in 2023, arguably helped by INEC’s mysterious “technical glitch”. But right from when he became president in May 2023, Tinubu has set his gaze on his re-election bid in 2027, seemingly determined to employ the same power-grabbing strategy. One element of the…

United States senator Ted Cruz has accused Nigerian government officials of complicity in attacks against Christians in the country. Cruz made the claim during a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing on the United States’ counterterrorism policy in Africa on Tuesday. Efforts to get the federal government’s comment yesterday were futile, but former Information Minister under late President Muhammadu Buhari, Lai Mohammed, declared in the United Kingdom yesterday that Boko Haram was killing more Muslims than Christians. However, during the session, the legislator claimed that Nigeria has the largest number of Christians slain for their faith anywhere in the world. He…