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  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…

The death of veteran actor Taiwo Hassan, the Yoruba film star known to millions as Ogogo, has done more than plunge Nollywood into mourning. It has again exposed a pattern that Nigeria’s health authorities have struggled for years to break, with prominent citizens falling to cancers that are frequently detected too late to treat. Hassan…

Millions of Nigerians now need their fingerprints to sit an examination, open a bank account or collect a national identity number. For a small number of citizens whose fingerprints never formed, that requirement has turned ordinary transactions into a recurring struggle, a problem brought back into public view by a young woman’s account of living…

The formal accession of Nigeria to the World Energy Council and the simultaneous inauguration of its National Member Committee in Abuja mark a renewed diplomatic posture in the international energy arena. Chaired by Waltersmith Petroman Oil Chairman Abdulrazaq Isa, with former Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited executive Bala Wunti as Chief Executive Officer, the new…

  A viral clip of Afrobeats star David Adeleke, better known as Davido, playfully needling Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike with the taunt that he had won and “beat” the minister’s side has become the lighter face of a swift political thaw in Osun State, where a bruising campaign has given way to a…

  The Osun State Government says it will establish a ₦500 million Election Violence Victims Endowment Fund to support verified victims and bereaved families from the August governorship poll. Governor Ademola Adeleke announced the fund on Wednesday, 19 August, in Osogbo, shortly after receiving his certificate of return from the Independent National Electoral Commission for…