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The Federal Government has officially dismissed widespread reports suggesting an impending ban on the export of raw cocoa beans, clarifying that its policy is focused on promoting local value addition rather than restricting exports. Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, made the clarification in a statement issued on Friday, following public…
The Director of News at Arise Television, Sumner Sambo, has argued that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s determination to contest the 2027 presidential election, despite the existing zoning convention, will ultimately deepen Nigeria’s democratic journey. Sambo made the assertion on Monday during Arise Television’s ‘Morning Show’, wading into the ongoing national debate over power…
Andy Burnham will walk through the black door of 10 Downing Street on Monday as the United Kingdom’s seventh prime minister in ten years, inheriting a bruised governing party, a jittery bond market and an economy carrying some of the heaviest borrowing costs in a generation. The former mayor of Greater Manchester takes…
Barely four weeks before Osun State returns to the polls, the founder of Adeleke University, Ede, Dr Deji Adeleke, has redrawn the familiar map of Nigeria’s electoral integrity debate, arguing that the corruption that undermines the ballot begins not at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) but in the hands of…
Nearly a billion naira that flowed for years into hundreds of bank accounts tied to workers who may never have existed now belongs to the Federal Government, after a Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the permanent forfeiture of N941,994,079.86 traced to an alleged ghost worker scheme buried inside the country’s central payroll…
The United States closed out its hosting of the 2026 FIFA World Cup without a single major security breach, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kash Patel, has declared, capping what American authorities describe as the most demanding protective operation the bureau has ever mounted for one event. Patel announced the outcome…
An accusation that every governor in Nigeria is misappropriating local government allocations has thrust the country’s stalled fiscal autonomy reform back into public debate, after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Ogun State, Oladipupo Adebutu, told traditional rulers in Abeokuta that the diversion of council money cuts across party lines. Adebutu made…
The diplomatic standoff between Abuja and Pretoria over compensation for Nigerians uprooted by xenophobic violence has entered a sharper legal phase, with human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, insisting that only a regional court, not the African Union, can force South Africa to pay. His intervention reframes a bilateral grievance…
Peter Obi marked his 65th birthday on Sunday by turning a football result into a political statement, seizing on Spain’s victory at the 2026 FIFA World Cup to press his familiar argument that competent, well supported young people are the answer to Nigeria’s troubles. The presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress for the 2027…
The House of Representatives opens a formal inquiry today into how a council that the Federal Government insists never legally existed secured more than N1.3bn in the 2026 Appropriation Act, yet the two men at the heart of the controversy have not been called to testify, raising early questions about the reach and credibility…
