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More than 3.5 million children across six South-West states and Edo State remain unregistered at birth, leaving them without official legal identity. The United Nations Children’s Fund issued the warning during an advocacy dialogue on civil registration alongside the National Population Commission. Celine Lafoucriere, chief of the UNICEF Lagos Field Office, revealed that millions of…
Omoyele Sowore has pledged to restore Nigeria’s petrol subsidy if he wins the presidency. The African Action Congress politician argues that removing the price cushion has driven millions of citizens into deep economic distress. His declaration directly challenges the central economic policies of the current administration. President Bola Tinubu scrapped the decades-old support program in…
Nigeria faces a crushing medical drain as thousands of pharmacists flee overseas. The Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria reports that 9,000 specialists left the country over four years. Another 850 practitioners secured clearance letters to move abroad during the first half of 2026. Emigration strips local hospitals and drug shops of their brightest talent….
A frontline rights group wants Nigeria’s top politicians to expose their personal wealth ahead of 2027. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project challenged President Bola Tinubu and opposition leaders to disclose their assets. Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi lead a nineteen-candidate list facing the voluntary challenge. SERAP deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare issued the demand in…
Former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi donated ten million naira to the Faith Foundation College of Nursing Sciences in Nsukka on Thursday. The gift adds to his previous financial contributions to help complete classrooms, laboratories, and clinical training infrastructure at the institution. Obi stated that building local human capacity remains the only viable path toward…
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed a sweeping joint defence agreement in Jeddah on Friday as regional conflict threatens the Middle East. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to seal the trilateral alliance. Rising military strikes across the Gulf forced these powers to…
Pan-African trade officials just signed a $3.1bn deal to rebuild continental border networks. The African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat sealed a twenty-year concession with Bergmans Security Consultant and Supplies to digitise customs clearance. Secretary-General Wamkele Mene signed the contract in Abuja to launch the customs modernisation project. Private capital will fund the entire technological…
Global oil prices slipped below $80 a barrel as energy traders bet on a diplomatic breakthrough between Washington and Tehran. Brent crude fell to three-month lows following signs of an impending deal and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Traders stripped away the heavy geopolitical risk premium that previously inflated energy costs. Additional crude…
At least twenty-one people were killed, and thirty-seven others abducted when armed bandits sacked a rural community in Sokoto State over the weekend. The assault leaves yet another northern village destroyed while security agencies scramble to respond. Gunmen swept through the settlement unimpeded for hours. Federal declarations of military progress ring hollow across these…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has launched a blistering critique of President Bola Tinubu’s economic claims, insisting official statistics conceal widespread hardship. In a statement issued by his media aide Phrank Shaibu, the opposition leader argued that the macroeconomic recovery narrative collapses in the face of shuttered factories and hollowed-out family budgets. Polished charts do…
