Nigeria and African news

Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abubakar Atiku, has filed an appeal before the Supreme Court seeking to nullify the judgement of the election petition tribunal, which upheld the election of Bola Tinubu as President in the February 2023 poll. Abubakar’s counsel, Chris Uche, on Monday, filed 35 reasons…

United States lawmakers have the Nigerian government for  failing to take decisive steps to halt what they describe as “widespread and systematic attacks on Christian communities across the country.” The lawmakers expressed the concern at a high level roundtable held on Tuesday on Capitol Hill, where an array of senior legislators, foreign policy specialists, and…

A former governor of Zamfara state and senator representing Zamfara West, Abdulaziz Yari, was said to have been detained and grilled by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), according reports by The Punch newspapers. The newspaper said reasons the detention and interrogation of Yari was not clear yet. According to Punch, a source…

Former governor of Kaduna, Nasir El-Rufai has said that the north must forge an alliance with the south-south to “save” Nigeria. TheCable reports that El-Rufai stated this on Friday during a condolence visit to the family of Edwin Clark, the late elder statesman and Niger Delta advocate, who died on February 17. The former governor…

The Zamfara state commissioner for Information, Mr. Ibrahim Dosara has said that the military operations against bandits in the state has recorded huge success as the fleeing criminals whose source of food supply had been cut off, have resorted to eating row food. Briefing journalists in Kaduna, Dosara also disclosed that over 2000 informants to…