Diaspora Medics For Good Governance

Oil prices shot up nearly three percent Monday as more companies suspended shipping through the Red Sea following attacks on vessels by Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels. Meanwhile US stocks sought to continue last week’s rally on expectations that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next year, although it appears to have lost steam […]

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has begun reconciliation of members, indicating interest to bring back presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) in this year’s general elections, Peter Obi, to its fold. The main opposition party, yesterday, stated that for it not to go into oblivion and win the 2027 polls, “a Northerner cannot be the presidential

A factional speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Edison Ehie, last Wednesday declared vacant the seats of 27 lawmakers who defected from the PeoplesThe Federal High Court in Abuja has barred Nigeria’s electoral commission, INEC, from organising by-elections to replace 27 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly whose seats were declared

A World Bank report has indicated that Nigeria’s poverty level has taken a notch higher, at the backdrop of the recent economic and fiscal reforms. The key reforms include the removal of petrol subsidy and the foreign exchange market rate restructuring. The bank, however, commended the Federal Government for what it considered ‘bold reforms’ necessary

United States of America (USA) lawmaker, in the House of Representatives from the State of Texas, District 139, Jarvis Johnson, has called on Nigeria’s Supreme Court to order the unconditional release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, from his long detention. His call came in addition to the one

President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, said his administration was prioritising and improving Nigeria’s health sector through massive investments and an increased allocation of funds to the sector in the proposed 2024 budget. He, therefore, appealed to Nigerian health workers practising abroad to “sacrifice their time to come back home and serve their people.” This was

Elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, has again urged President Bola Tinubu to call the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to order. In an open letter to the President on Monday, the leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) said Wike is just one of the 48 ministers in the President’s

President Bola Tinubu has reneged on one of the legal and moral demands on public office holders to declare their assets upon the assumption of office, for transparency purposes. More than six months after assumption of office, taking oath of office and swearing allegiance to State and the rule of law, President Tinubu has no

Former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has reignited the debate on transparency in the oil and gas sector, calling for a comprehensive audit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL). In a bold statement delivered at The Bank Directors Summit at Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, Sanusi linked this demand to his

The FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has dared those protesting his administration policies and flagged off resurfacing of 49 roads in Asokoro, Wuse and Maitama areas of Abuja. Performing the flag off in Asokoro, Thursday, after protesters storm National Assembly’s gate on Wednesday, Wike said his administration would not be deterred by those ‘paid to protest