SERAP Sues Federal Government Over N78.8bn Cash Transfer
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project dragged the Federal Government before the ECOWAS Community Court…
SERAP Sues Federal Government Over N78.8bn Cash Transfer
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project dragged the Federal Government before the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice over 78.8 billion naira in unaccounted welfare spending. The rights group filed suit ECW/CCJ/APP/42/26 in Abuja following damaging disclosures in the Auditor-General’s latest statutory audit report. Paper registers cannot feed poor households. The audit query targets disbursements made…
Two Container Trucks Kill Mother, Child in Lagos
A mother and her child died instantly at the weekend after two container-laden articulated lorries overturned near Freeman Market at Mile 2 in Lagos. The falling 20-foot shipping containers crushed the two pedestrians beneath tonnes of steel and freight along the busy corridor leading into Apapa port. Cheap logistics often carry bloody tolls. Emergency teams…
NDLEA Arrests Foreign Courier, Grandmother in Airport Raids
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency intercepted thirty-six kilograms of cocaine and a nine-kilogram batch of American cannabis during separate interdiction operations at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Drug cartels recruit unexpected couriers to slip illicit parcels past airport scanners. Femi Babafemi, spokesman for the anti-narcotics agency, confirmed on Sunday that…
Troops Rescue 70 Hostages, Seize Terror Kingpin
Nigerian troops freed more than 70 kidnap victims and seized a wanted terror kingpin in Mokwa town during coordinated nationwide raids this past week. Major General Michael Onoja confirmed on Sunday that soldiers also recovered 10 million naira in extortion cash following a sweep through Kano’s Falgore forest. Forest hideouts offer dwindling safety. The operations…
Obama Attacks Trump Over Iran War, Living Costs
Former president Barack Obama returned to the campaign trail on Saturday to lead Democratic midterm rallies in Ohio and Michigan ahead of the critical 3 November vote. He pinned surging household grocery bills and fuel prices directly on Donald Trump’s military strike against Iran. Reckless wars always bleed consumer wallets. The military strikes pushed crude…
Nigeria’s Graduate Unemployment Crisis: Is Changing the Curriculum Enough?
Nigeria’s education system needs urgent reform. But the government must not mistake a curriculum problem for the entire graduate unemployment crisis. The Federal Government’s renewed emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, cloud computing, software development and other digital skills is a welcome recognition that the world of work is changing rapidly. Education Minister Tunji Alausa…
Super El Niño, Our Environment, Climate and Public Policy
N’Mazi Obiomah O. Igbokwe Nigeria is on the Brink of a Climate and Humanitarian Emergency, even as it stands at a dangerous intersection of climate vulnerability, economic hardship, food insecurity and inadequate public infrastructure. Against this troubling background, the Super El Niño deserves serious attention, not as a distant meteorological phenomenon, but as a potential…
The Invisible Workforce and Algorithmic Exploitation in Nigeria
Official statistical agencies and national labour planning authorities across Nigeria have initiated frameworks to record and formalise digital platform workers within national employment indices. Government technocrats view this as a bureaucratic milestone, presenting the gig economy as an engine of job creation and economic diversification. The official narrative celebrates the rise of digital dispatch and…
Explosions Rock Riyadh as Houthi Strikes Intensify
Loud explosions shook Riyadh early on Sunday as Saudi air defences destroyed a ballistic missile and two drones fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The pre-dawn interception coincided with official plans to reopen King Khalid International Airport after a fortnight of emergency closures. War shatters normal aviation schedules. The renewed assault follows an earlier strike this…
Kaduna Rally: ADC Dares APC To Prove Deepfake Claims
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) Presidential Campaign Council has told the All Progressives Congress (APC) that no amount of insult can hide what it called the growing rejection of the ruling party by Nigerians. The response came on Saturday, hours after the APC accused the ADC and its candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar,…