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Air Peace and United Nigeria Airlines have rejected the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority’s report on domestic flight disruptions for August 2026, saying the figures misstate their flight volumes and fail to separate delays the airlines caused from those driven by factors outside their control. The NCAA’s Summary of Domestic Airline Flight Disruption Operations for…
Social Democratic Party presidential candidate Adewole Adebayo has said Nigerians are more honest and compassionate than people in Britain and the United States, blaming the country’s leadership rather than its citizens for the reputation Nigeria carries abroad. Adebayo made the remarks in an interview on the Naija Unfiltered Podcast, where he discussed his international career,…
A crown court in the United Kingdom has adjourned the plea and trial preparation hearing of Nigerian dancer and hypeman Iweh Pascal Odinaka, better known as Poco Lee, after the matter could not proceed as listed on Tuesday. The case came up at Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London on 15 September 2026, but…
A spokesperson for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election campaign has urged Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike and All Progressives Congress governors to stop trading words in public and channel their energy into mobilising votes for the 2027 election. Ima Niboro, one of the spokespersons of the APC presidential campaign council, made the call on…
Former Barcelona and Netherlands manager Ronald Koeman has announced the death of his wife, Bartina Koeman-Boddeveld, who died on Monday, 15 September 2026, at the age of 65. Koeman confirmed the loss in a tribute posted on Instagram, describing Bartina as his “beautiful wife” and the family’s “dearest mother and grandmother”. “With intense sadness, but…
The Anambra State Government has said the First Bank account that former Governor Peter Obi named as holding an untouched ₦2.13bn ecological fund is not an ecological account and never carried that sum, escalating a public dispute over the finances he left behind in 2014. The rebuttal came in a statement by the Commissioner…
Nigeria’s biggest ever share sale has opened to a surge of demand, with the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals initial public offering attracting about N1.5 trillion in commitments within the first six hours of trading, according to figures cited by market operators. The pace of subscription has already pushed Aliko Dangote, president of Dangote…
The naira strengthened in the parallel market , even as fresh official data confirmed that consumer price pressures continued to ease across the country, offering a mixed but broadly steadying picture of an economy still adjusting to more than three years of reform. In the parallel market, the currency appreciated to about N1,380 to…
The Nigeria Police Force will gather its senior commanders in Owerri, Imo State, from 21 to 23 September for a retreat devoted largely to how the country’s next elections will be policed, a signal that security planning for the 2027 general elections has begun in earnest more than a year before Nigerians return to the…
A fresh analysis has warned that Nigeria’s plan to replace its flat excise duty on sugar-sweetened beverages with a value-based charge could push up the price of soft drinks sharply while delivering uncertain gains for public health, adding a note of caution to a debate that has been building in the National Assembly for almost…