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Joint security teams rescued thirty-four kidnap victims during parallel armed operations in Zamfara and Edo states. Troops neutralised one kidnapper and recovered ₦1.5 million in cash during the south-western sting. Thirty-three travellers regained freedom in northern Zamfara after soldiers intercepted their captors along a major highway. Security forces exploited live ransom talks to trap the…
A cross-party coalition of lawmakers wants Nigeria’s parliament recalled immediately to address an alleged ₦8.83 trillion off-budget spend. The group, calling itself the Save Nigeria Group, sent its demand directly to Senate President Godswill Akpabio and House Speaker Tajudeen Abbas. Official silence on such massive unauthorised spending threatens to gut democratic accountability entirely. Federal coffers…
A legislative probe into a fake presidential council exposed deep weakness in the federal bureaucracy on Thursday. The State House told lawmakers it never approved or created the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council. Yet the fake agency secured budget codes, seized secretariat offices, and obtained official government vehicle number plates. Federal Road Safety Corps officials…
The Nigeria Customs Service has announced plans to transition to an annual recruitment model, with the 2026 intake exercise scheduled to open shortly. The shift aims to replace sporadic recruitment drives with a predictable, institutionalised hiring process. Regular recruitment keeps law enforcement agencies fresh and operational. For years, ad-hoc hiring led to severe staffing deficits,…
Active mobile subscriptions in Nigeria climbed to nearly 190 million in May, driven by an insatiable appetite for internet data. Fresh numbers from the Nigerian Communications Commission show the country added four million mobile lines in just two months. High inflation and sinking wages have failed to curb digital consumption across the federation. Data is…
Global oil prices fell sharply on Monday as a pause in American air strikes offered rare respite to nervous energy markets. Brent crude slid more than 5% to $92 a barrel after two weeks of intense military action. Washington halted its bombardment of Iranian sites over the weekend to give diplomacy a chance. Tehran responded…
Old political grudges die hard in Nigerian politics. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has dismissed fresh bribery allegations made by his former boss, Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo claimed Atiku paid five million naira to former Speaker Ghali Na’Abba to trigger impeachment proceedings against him two decades ago. Atiku, through his media aide Phrank Shaibu, accused Obasanjo…
President Bola Tinubu has approved the expansion of the Nigerian Army from eight to twelve divisions. The ambitious military restructuring includes the immediate recruitment of twenty-eight thousand new personnel to boost operational capacity. Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu announced the sweeping reform during a military conference in Abuja. The expansion creates specialized…
Iran launched fresh missile and drone strikes across the Middle East on Thursday, targeting strategic border crossings and Gulf allies. Tehran struck the Abdali border post between Kuwait and Iraq while hitting energy facilities in Jordan and Bahrain. US forces responded instantly with heavy airstrikes against Houthi military positions in western Yemen. The American action…
Nigeria has taken its most decisive step yet toward breaking the federal monopoly on policing. The House of Representatives on Thursday passed the Executive Bill seeking to establish state police forces nationwide. Lawmakers withdrew their own earlier constitutional amendment proposal during plenary to adopt President Bola Tinubu’s executive version instead. The legislative breakthrough follows the…
