Lagos-based public relations consultant and former head of Corporate Communications of defunct Skye Bank (Polaris Bank), Kayode Akinyemi, will bury his mother, Mrs Victoria Akinyemi, tomorrow at Afao-Ekiti, Ekiti State. Mrs Akinyemi died on June 13, at 85. She is survived by children, grandchildren, sisters and brothers. Akinyemi, former director general of Ekiti State Bureau […]

• IPOB leader insists on on self-representation The detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, yesterday dismissed his entire legal team. He opted to conduct his terrorism trial personally before the Federal High Court in Abuja. Kanu, who announced the decision during yesterday’s proceedings, told Justice James Omotosho that he

• Amupitan: Anambra poll will demonstrate INEC’s high standard Transparency, integrity and credibility as hallmarks of credible elections were on the agenda at yesterday’s inauguration of Prof. Joash Amupitan as chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who administered the oath on Amupitan, highlighted the expectations, which Amupitan himself emphasised

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday continued to attract major political figures and grassroots supporters across Nigeria. Several opposition leaders from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) formally defected to the party in Zamfara, Kano, and Cross River states. In Zamfara, the Minister of State for Defence, Dr.

The UK Supreme Court has unanimously ruled in favour of Nigeria in a long-standing legal dispute with Process & Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID) over £44 million in legal costs. The court’s decision, delivered on October 22 by Lord Reed (President), Lord Hodge (Deputy President), Lord Stephens, Lord Richards and Lady Simler, affirms that Nigeria is

There is division in the Northern Caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the endorsement of former Minister of Special Duties in the Jonathan Administration, Kabiru Taminu Turaki (SAN) for the position of National Chairman as consensus candidate by some party leaders from the region. While Turaki was endorsed in Abuja at a meeting