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Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike has said the aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party governors known as the G5 deliberately allowed Peter Obi to win parts of the South-South in the 2023 presidential election, in order to deny the PDP’s own candidate, Atiku Abubakar, votes in a region the party had long dominated. Wike first made…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has again declared Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, wanted, this time over an alleged case of receiving stolen property. The commission announced the declaration on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, in a public notice carrying Maina’s photograph and signed by its Head of Media…
Nigeria’s fish import bill dropped to about N167.91 billion in the second quarter of 2026, down 14.8 per cent from the N197.17 billion spent in the same quarter last year, according to figures in the latest Foreign Trade in Goods Statistics report from the National Bureau of Statistics. The report, which tracks six fish categories,…
The Central Bank of Nigeria has cut its benchmark interest rate to 23 per cent from 26.5 per cent, its sharpest move in more than two years, as the apex bank shifts towards loosening monetary policy on the back of steadily falling inflation. The Governor of the CBN, Olayemi Cardoso, announced the decision on…
The Anambra State Government has challenged former governor Peter Obi to withdraw from the 2027 presidential race, saying he broke two pledges he made in office on the state’s debt and the payment of workers’ salaries. The challenge came on Tuesday in a post on the official X account of the state’s New Media Office,…
Nigeria has recorded 258 Lassa fever deaths so far in 2026, with the case fatality rate rising to 24 per cent, according to the latest situation report from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. The report, which covers epidemiological week 35 from 24 to 30 August, put confirmed cases for the year…
Nigeria has won a long running arbitration over the stalled Mambilla hydropower project, after a tribunal in Paris rejected a $400 million claim brought against the country by Sunrise Power and Transmission Company Limited and its principal, Leno Adesanya. The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, announced the…
La Liga president Javier Tebas has dismissed suggestions that referees are being directed against Real Madrid, calling the idea an excuse for the club’s poor start to the season rather than an honest reading of its problems on the pitch. Tebas made the remarks on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, responding on social media to…
The Federal High Court in Abuja has reserved ruling until 26 October on a no-case submission filed by former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai, who is standing trial over the alleged unlawful interception of telephone communications belonging to the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu. According to the court proceedings on Tuesday, both the prosecution…
The White House has begun running its own round-the-clock video channel, “Trump TV: The Essentials Station,” on the same day three major news organisations sued the administration over their exclusion from the presidential complex and the networks that normally film the president suspended their shared coverage. The channel went live on Monday, 21 September,…