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The Ebola outbreak tearing through the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has now killed 600 people, a grim figure released by the World Health Organisation on Thursday that lays bare how quickly the virus is spreading despite an intensifying containment effort. What alarms health officials most is the pace: the death toll crossed 500 only…
A senior aide to President Bola Tinubu has stirred fresh debate over the japa wave, arguing that many Nigerians who relocated to the United Kingdom in search of a better life are, in real terms, struggling more than counterparts who stayed behind on far smaller incomes. The claim, made by the Special Adviser to…
Nigeria’s rank-and-file soldiers now take home a minimum of N100,000 a month, more than double the N49,000 they earned only a couple of years ago, yet the country’s defence chief concedes that the money flowing into the armed forces still falls short of what the war against insurgency and banditry demands. Defence Minister Christopher…
A single stoppage-time goal in Atlanta did what few events in the digital age have managed: it pushed Google Search to the busiest moment in the company’s 28-year history. The spike came on the evening of Tuesday, July 7, seconds after Argentina completed a stunning comeback to knock Egypt out of the 2026 FIFA…
Almost eight weeks after gunmen stormed three schools in the Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State and seized dozens of pupils and their teachers, the fate of the captives has taken a darker turn, with the Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa, disclosing that the abductors have threatened to kill the children if soldiers…
The detention of a journalist attached to opposition figure Omoyele Sowore has opened a fresh dispute between the Department of State Services and civil rights campaigners, with the security agency insisting the matter is a straightforward regulatory breach while Sowore maintains it is a calculated move to frustrate his ongoing court case. The journalist,…
Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa (retd.), has drawn a hard line for the country’s security forces, warning that any operative who holds fire while waiting for instructions from above will be treated as a friend of the very criminals he was sent to fight. The minister issued the directive on Wednesday in…
Lawmakers in the upper chamber have signalled their strongest intent yet to confront Nigeria’s long running counterfeit medicine crisis, advancing a bill that would send anyone convicted of producing or trafficking fake drugs to prison for up to 15 years and strip them of assets tied to the trade. The Counterfeit Medical Products, Fake…
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…
