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The Nigerian Senate returns from recess on Tuesday to confront an uncomfortable question that has exposed weaknesses across the machinery of government: how did a body the Presidency insists never existed secure N1,302,978,784 in the 2026 Appropriation Act, pass through the Budget Office and the National Assembly, and operate from an office inside the…
The Senate has moved to calm one of the most persistent fears surrounding Nigeria’s proposed shift to decentralised policing, insisting that the new legal framework gives the federal police clear grounds to step in wherever a state police outfit is turned into a weapon of electoral intimidation or presides over a collapse of public…
United States forward Folarin Balogun, a player Nigeria once courted for its own national team, has been cleared to feature in Monday’s World Cup Round of 16 tie against Belgium after football’s governing body suspended the red card that had ruled him out, a ruling that drew swift and public praise from President Donald Trump….
Pressure is mounting on the Independent National Electoral Commission to state plainly whether it has handed the Candidates’ Access Code for the 2027 general elections to any faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, as a prominent civil rights group warns that the electoral body risks overtaking a case still pending before the courts….
Pressure on the Presidency over the affair of a disputed government council widened on Sunday as the Tanimu Turaki faction of the Peoples Democratic Party demanded a full, independent investigation into the allegations and counter allegations trailing the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Femi Gbajabiamila. The faction argued that the controversy had grown…
Relief has finally settled over Eda Oniyo, a quiet farming community on the border between Ekiti and Kwara states, where fifteen worshippers snatched from a church more than two months ago are now recovering in hospital beds in Ado Ekiti. Ekiti State Governor Biodun Oyebanji walked through the emergency and children’s wards of the…
The Federal Government has moved to shut down a fast spreading narrative that it quietly spent trillions of naira outside the approved budget, insisting that reports crediting the claim to the International Monetary Fund misrepresent what the Fund actually said. The pushback came on Sunday in a statement from the Minister of Finance and…
Nigeria’s electricity distribution companies ended 2025 with a curious paradox on their books. They pumped out more power, banked record revenue and connected more meters than ever before, yet quietly watched more than a million paying customers walk away. Fresh figures from the National Bureau of Statistics, drawn from data compiled by the…
Fresh doubt has been cast on Victor Osimhen’s suitability for Barcelona, with former Fenerbahce striker Serdar Dursun arguing that the Super Eagles forward lacks the technical polish demanded by the Catalan club’s possession-based system, even as he continues to acknowledge the Nigerian’s undoubted quality. Dursun raised the concern on the Cup Diary programme on…
A worsening tide of armed violence has now uprooted more than 3.5 million people across the Lake Chad Basin, pushing one of the world’s most protracted humanitarian emergencies to what the United Nations refugee agency has described as a dangerous tipping point. The warning came from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which…
