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Legal experts and stakeholders are weighing in on President Bola Tinubu’s recent executive order that halts revenue deductions by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and other agencies, highlighting tensions between presidential authority and legislative supremacy under Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution. The directive, aimed at curbing what the administration views as excessive deductions from oil…
Benin City witnessed a significant realignment in Nigeria’s opposition landscape on Tuesday as Olumide Akpata, the Labour Party’s candidate in the 2024 Edo governorship election, formally defected to the African Democratic Congress, marking another chapter in the fluid dynamics of party affiliations ahead of future polls. The ceremony at the ADC’s state secretariat drew…
A heavy explosion at a transformer substation in Ogechukwu Street, Awka, claimed the life of an unidentified man suspected of attempting to steal electricity cables from FirstPower Electricity Distribution Company Limited early Tuesday morning. The incident highlights the ongoing dangers of energy theft in Anambra State’s capital, where the suspected vandal, dressed in a…
Abuja will host a gathering of Nigeria’s political and religious elite next Sunday as the Christian Legislators Fellowship of the National Assembly commissions a new 750-capacity chapel, a project born out of longstanding calls for equal religious spaces within the legislative grounds. The dedication ceremony, set for March 1, 2026, underscores the push for…
Senegal’s Prime Minister, Ousmane Sonko, has expressed his dismay over a Moroccan court’s decision to hand prison sentences to 18 Senegalese football fans convicted for their role in a pitch invasion during the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) final on January 18, 2026. The supporters, who were detained in Morocco following the match, faced…
Nigeria’s central bank has reduced its benchmark lending rate for the first time in years, signalling a cautious but consequential shift in monetary policy direction as the country’s economic managers begin to ease the aggressive tightening that defined much of the past two years. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Olayemi Cardoso, announced on…
An alleged armed attack on former presidential candidate Peter Obi and chieftains of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Benin City, Edo State on Tuesday has thrown fresh alarm over the safety of opposition political figures in Nigeria, with bullet holes left on the gate of former All Progressives Congress National Chairman Chief John Odigie-Oyegun’s…
Football’s global governing body, FIFA, is pushing for a new rule that would compel players who receive on-field medical treatment to remain off the pitch for at least one minute before returning to action — a measure designed to address one of the most persistent complaints in the modern game: deliberate time-wasting disguised as…
As the All Progressives Congress counts down to its national convention slated for March 27 and 28, the clearest signal yet from within the party’s inner circle is that President Bola Tinubu has made his preference known: retain Professor Nentawe Yilwatda as national chairman and Dr. Ajibola Basiru as national secretary, a position that…
The Obidient Movement has formally rejected the results of last Saturday’s Abuja Municipal Area Council chairmanship election, declaring the exercise a “brazen assault” on democracy and calling for a full and transparent review of the outcome, even as the group mourns the killing of one of its polling agents during what it has described…
