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A private jet that made global headlines last month by touching down on a road under construction near Asaba Airport had first broken off its landing attempt, repositioned, and come in a second time believing it was properly lined up with the runway, according to the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau. The Bureau made the…
A fresh war of words has broken out between the Federal Government and one of Nigeria’s most vocal online campaigners, after activist Mark Chidiebere Justice, widely known as Justice Crack, publicly rejected an allegation by the Minister of Defence, Christopher Musa, that he coached soldiers to doctor a viral video about their meals. The…
A Nigerian legal practitioner based in the United Kingdom, Baron Chymaker, has taken a formal step toward severing his legal ties with the country of his parentage, saying his application to renounce his Nigerian citizenship has been lodged with the relevant authorities and all statutory fees paid. Chymaker, who is widely followed on the…
Nigerian crude oil supplied nearly four out of every five barrels processed by the Dangote Petroleum Refinery between May and June 2026, according to the plant’s own cargo discharge and pricing records, a pattern that firmly reestablishes the country as the dominant feedstock source for the 650,000 barrels per day facility in Lekki. An…
A Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on Thursday ordered the remand of a former Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Yakubu Umar, at the Kuje Correctional Centre, marking a striking reversal of fortune for the man who once presided over some of the most consequential asset declaration trials in…
President Bola Tinubu gathered his entire security establishment at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday evening for a closed-door review of a threat picture that has grown more complicated by the week, bringing together the military high command, intelligence heads and homeland security advisers for a session that ran beyond two hours. The State…
Nigerians and other travellers seeking visas to enter Nigeria from the United States will now have to file their applications directly at the country’s diplomatic missions, following the immediate termination of the arrangement that had placed that responsibility in private hands. The Nigeria Immigration Service announced on Wednesday, July 9, 2026, that it had…
Peter Obi has returned to a familiar battleground, restating one of the most debated claims of his political career: that he left the Anambra State treasury flush with roughly $150 million and N36 billion when his tenure ended in 2014. Speaking in an interview with media entrepreneur Chude Jideonwo, published on Wednesday, the former…
A fresh political fault line has opened over who should carry the blame for Nigeria’s worsening kidnapping crisis, with the Presidency insisting that state governors and local council chairmen, not the Federal Government, must answer for abductions that happen on their soil. The position was laid out by Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to President…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has drawn a firm line under the widening quarrel between the Tinubu administration and the opposition, warning the Federal Government on Thursday that any harm coming to Labour Party’s former standard bearer, Peter Obi, would be an assault on Nigeria’s democracy itself. Atiku, who is the presidential candidate of…
