The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday faulted President Bola Tinubu for decorating the visiting Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, with the Nigerian second highest national honour of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON). Speaking with The PUNCH on Sunday, the Deputy National Youth Leader of the PDP, Timothy Osadolor, described the President’s action as misplaced …

President Bola Tinubu will welcome Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a State Visit at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Sunday. The visit will mark a pivotal moment in the Nigeria-India relations, as it is the first by an Indian Prime Minister since Dr Manmohan Singh’s visited in 2007, which laid the groundwork for a strategic partnership between the …

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s G20 Summit visit to India, on the special invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is coming almost exactly 61 years after Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of the Republic of India, visited Nigeria. Since that historic September 1962 visit, hosted by Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, the first (and only) Prime Minister of Nigeria, in Lagos, Nigerian …