Nigeria’s Defence Minister, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, has resigned with immediate effect from his position. In a letter dated December 1, sent to President Bola Tinubu, Abubakar said he was quitting on health grounds. According to Special Adviser to the President Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu has accepted the resignation, thanked Abubakar for his services to the nation and will likely inform the Senate of Badaru’s successor later this week. The resignation arrived amid Nigeria’s ongoing battles with banditry and terrorism, just after Nigeria President declared a national security emergency to bolster responses. Former Chief of Defence Staff General Christopher Musa met...

Police Officers Found Accompanying VIPs, Celebrities, Or Elites Will Now Be Arrested — IGP Issues Serious Warning.Please, my gallant officers, kindly comply with this directive . Love you all.

Edo state’s investment climate received a major boost on Monday as Governor Monday Okpebholo assured Presco PLC of his administration’s unwavering support, just as SIAT and its parent company announced a historic $100 million foreign direct investment injection into Presco’s operations in thr state. The announcement was made during a courtesy visit by the management of Presco PLC, led by its Chairman, Mr. Rasheed Sarumi, and Managing Director, Mr. Raji George, to the Governor at Government House, Benin City. Reacting to the development, the Country Director of the Coalition for Good Governance and Economic Justice in Africa, Mr. John Mayaki,...

Working Gov Peter Mbah of Enugu state has procured powerful security drones that have capability to monitor Enugu state and beyond, identify locations and fish out kidnappers, bandits and other criminal targets in the forest. First ever in Nigeria… Enugu is safe! This is the tomorrow that is truly here…*

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy revealed in a post on Monday afternoon: “Together with French President Emmanuel Macron and with the participation of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, we just spoke with the head of Ukrainian delegation Rustem Umerov and US President’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff following the Ukraine-U.S. delegations’ meeting in Florida. “It was an important briefing, and we agreed to discuss more details in person—our teams will coordinate schedules for possible further contacts.” “During our several-hour talks, Macron and I assessed a great many details. The main focus was on negotiations to end the war and on security guarantees....

An X user with the handle @Samsonthegoat25 in a post on Monday claimed that: “My friend dad bought a piece of land at Abuja in 2012 for ₦80,000. “Recently, the same land was sold for ₦250 million without his full knowledge or proper consent, and the new buyer has already started building on it…” he disclosed However, in his comment section while answering questions, he was queried about who resold the land and he simply reply “Wike.”

Cameroonian opposition leader Anicet Ekane, who supported a bid for president by a rival to the country’s long-serving leader in October, died in detention on Monday, his lawyer and family said, a development that may worsen political tensions. According to the vice president of his party told reporters “Anicet Ekane died this morning in Yaounde, where he had been transferred after his arrest at the end of October in Douala,” Valentin Dongmo of the African Movement for the New Independence of Cameroon (Manidem) party said. The 74-year-old, nationalist politician was arrested in Douala on October 24, on the eve of...

Thousands of demonstrators including from the Roman Catholic church clergy protested in the Philippines on Sunday, calling for the swift prosecution of top legislators and officials implicated in a corruption scandal that has buffeted the Asian democracy. Left-wing groups led a separate protest in Manila’s main park with a blunt demand for all implicated government officials to immediately resign and face prosecution. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has been scrambling to quell public outrage over the massive corruption blamed for substandard, defective or nonexistent flood control projects across an archipelago long prone to deadly flooding and extreme weather in tropical Asia. More than 17,000 police officers were...