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The Senate has cautioned Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, over his call for a United Nations led investigation into the abduction of pupils and teachers in Oriire Local Government Area, warning that such a demand could undermine the efforts of the Federal Government and security agencies in tackling terrorism and kidnapping. The caution was contained…
President Bola Tinubu has formally moved the battle to establish state police to the doorstep of the House of Representatives, transmitting the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Alteration) (State Police) Bill, 2026, in a bid to secure the constitutional backing that would end more than two decades of debate over how Nigeria polices…
Grief without a grave is the burden the family of Michael Olugbade Oyedokun continues to carry, nearly two months after the Mathematics teacher was killed in captivity following the mass abduction of pupils and staff in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State. In an open letter dated Tuesday and addressed to President Bola Tinubu,…
Nigeria will bring home the last group of its citizens fleeing xenophobic violence in South Africa on Wednesday, closing a five week rescue operation that has drawn hundreds of traumatised returnees back to Lagos and pushed relations between Abuja and Pretoria to one of their tensest points in years. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs…
Kemi Badenoch has thrown the Conservative Party’s weight behind the very immigration reform the Labour government first proposed, urging ministers to hold the line on a decade-long wait for permanent residency and to resist growing pressure from within their own ranks to water it down. In a letter to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, released…
Lawyers with appeals and motions billed for hearing before Nigeria’s apex court between September and December this year now have a firm instruction: get every document onto the internet, or risk falling foul of the court’s new digital rules. The Supreme Court has directed all counsel handling such matters to upload their processes through…
Nigerian holders of the United States B1/B2 visitor visa have been reminded that the document carries firm limits, with the US Mission in Nigeria spelling out exactly what the visa permits and cautioning that any misuse could shut the door on future American travel for good. The reminder, posted on the Mission’s official X…
The African Democratic Congress moved quickly on Monday to calm anxiety within its ranks, declaring that a fresh Court of Appeal judgment on its internal congresses carries no consequence for the candidates it has fielded through direct primaries. The reassurance came only hours after the appellate court in Abuja handed the party a setback…
The naira era for petrol at Nigeria’s biggest refinery has come to a close. Dangote Petroleum Refinery has switched the sale of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), Automotive Gas Oil (AGO), and Aviation Turbine Kerosene (ATK) to the United States dollar, ending the naira based system introduced barely twenty months ago and setting off fresh…
Racheal Alamu carries the marks of her ordeal on her body. Bruises still visible, the school principal stood before Governor Seyi Makinde at the Government Secretariat in Ibadan and described what 56 days in the hands of terrorists had done to her, her teachers and dozens of frightened children. Handed back to the Oyo…
