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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has named senior federal officials who, it says, processed approvals, opened financial channels and allocated offices for the purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, an organisation the Presidency has said never existed. The findings are in the commission’s interim investigation report, ordered by President Bola…
Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals has said continued petrol import licences are making it harder to plan for the Nigerian market and are pushing more of its output into export, even though it maintains that it can meet and exceed domestic demand. The company said imported Premium Motor Spirit accounted for about 43 per…
Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria Femi Falana has urged the Federal Government to fully implement the National Health Insurance Authority Act of 2022, describing mandatory health insurance as a right that must be enforced to protect Nigerians from the financial burden of healthcare. Falana spoke on Wednesday in Victoria Island, Lagos,…
The African Democratic Congress has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of Kuje Area Council Chairman Samuel Danjuma Shekwolo over remarks in which he was reported to have told residents who would not support the All Progressives Congress to leave the council. In a statement on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam…
Sustained profit-taking on the Nigerian Exchange on Wednesday cut N259.77 billion from investors’ wealth, as the All-Share Index fell 0.17 per cent to 238,682.92 points. Market capitalisation closed at N154.14 trillion, down from N154.40 trillion in the previous session. The decline extended the month-to-date loss to about 2.7 per cent, while the year-to-date return…
Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has asserted that his pro-democracy activism helped create the political environment that enabled former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi to rise to power . Speaking during an interview on Arise News on Tuesday, Sowore reflected on his heated exchange with Amaechi at the Nigerian Bar…
Nigeria’s domestic refineries turned sharply to foreign crude in July, buying 5.13 million barrels from abroad, a 151.5 per cent jump from the 2.04 million barrels imported in June, as local deliveries to the plants weakened once more. The figures, contained in the July 2026 Midstream and Downstream Statistics of the Nigerian Midstream and…
Nigeria’s major regional blocs have converged on a single demand ahead of the 2027 elections, that anyone seeking the presidency should open up their past to public examination. The call, however, runs into a constitutional standard that sets a far lower bar than the groups appear to want, and into a live controversy already…
Barely ten months after Nigeria escaped one of the world’s toughest financial watchlists, its own intelligence unit has warned that the groups behind the country’s insecurity are quietly rebuilding their money pipelines online, using crowdfunding appeals, women’s bank accounts and the SIM cards of dead people to stay ahead of the banks. The warning…
Nigeria’s foreign exchange market has recorded its busiest week of 2026, with total turnover jumping 146.12 per cent to about 5.05 billion dollars in the week ended 21 August 2026, a level that points to steadily improving dollar liquidity in the official window and growing confidence in the naira. Data from FMDQ Securities Exchange…