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Pressure over the phantom Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) has continued to mount inside the National Assembly, with the House of Representatives and the Senate charting opposite courses on how to confront a scandal that has already unsettled the Presidency and drawn President Bola Tinubu into issuing a 30-day investigative order. At plenary…
Nigeria has emerged as one of the steadier performers in an unsettled global economy, with the International Monetary Fund choosing to leave its growth forecast for the country untouched even as it trimmed expectations for much of the world. The Fund retained Nigeria’s growth forecast at 4.1 per cent for 2026, holding firm despite…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has allowed almost five months to pass without acting on the Federal Audit Service Bill, one of the most consequential public finance reforms to reach his desk in years, leaving the legislation stranded between passage and law and reviving old doubts about the depth of official commitment to accountability. The…
Six months before Nigerians return to the polls, the parties hoping to unseat the ruling All Progressives Congress are spending as much energy in courtrooms and boardrooms as they are on the campaign trail. A run of conflicting judgments, unresolved leadership tussles and open allegations of intimidation has left the opposition looking fractured at…
The African Democratic Congress has moved to tighten its grip on legal representation, barring all state chapters and officials from handling any court matters on the party’s behalf and directing that every legal process be channelled to its National Headquarters in Abuja. The decision reflects growing unease within the opposition party over how…
The long-running effort to hold someone accountable for the billions of dollars poured into Nigeria’s dead refineries reached a courtroom on Wednesday, as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arraigned the former Managing Director of the Port Harcourt Refining Company Limited, Ahmed Adamu Dikko, before the Federal High Court in Abuja on a 12 count…
Peter Obi has raised the stakes in Nigeria’s opposition politics with a stark declaration that he may not survive to contest the 2027 presidential election, tying his fears directly to what he described as sustained pressure from the Tinubu administration on his person and his businesses. The former Anambra State governor, now the presidential…
Manchester United have officially confirmed that Nigerian defender Idris Fabiyi is among 15 youngsters who have signed first-year scholarship contracts with the club for the 2026-2027 season. The announcement was made during a ceremony held at Old Trafford’s Manchester Suite, with family, friends, and Academy staff in attendance. Former United and England defender Wes…
The killing of a retired general in captivity has pushed the Senate to draw a firm line against one of Nigeria’s longest-running counter-insurgency tools, with lawmakers demanding that captured terrorists be prosecuted rather than resettled, even as the Army announced the surrender of two senior Boko Haram commanders barely a day before the resolution….
A fresh dispute has broken out over the welfare of former Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, with the African Democratic Congress and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission offering sharply conflicting accounts of a hospital visit that has now become the latest flashpoint in one of the most closely watched…
