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Nearly three years after her suspension threw a spotlight on alleged financial abuses inside Nigeria’s flagship welfare agency, the former Chief Executive Officer of the National Social Investment Programme Agency, Halima Shehu, has publicly rejected claims that she diverted ₦44 billion, insisting she was punished for raising the alarm rather than for any wrongdoing….
Foreign visitors hoping to time their departure from the United States by the expiry date printed on their visas have been told to look elsewhere, as American immigration authorities restate that the real deadline is set at the border, not on the visa. In a public advisory, US authorities reminded travellers that the period…
A decades old United States forfeiture matter that has shadowed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu since his years as a private businessman has been thrust back into the centre of Nigeria’s political contest, this time through the corridors of power in Washington rather than the courtrooms of Abuja. Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C., a Washington based…
President Bola Tinubu’s congratulatory message to Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, the incoming President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), carried more than the usual ceremony. Alongside praise for a historic victory, the President added a pointed instruction: to reach out to her rivals, unify a divided bar, and “make efforts to correct issues that arose during…
Nigeria’s public debt has become the most contested number in the country’s fiscal conversation, and the Federal Government moved on Monday to reclaim the narrative, telling senators that the widely repeated figure of N80 trillion in fresh borrowing under President Bola Tinubu is exaggerated and rooted more in accounting than in new loans….
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday closed one of Nigeria’s most consequential terrorism trials by handing life sentences to two senior commanders of the Ansaru group, only for the Department of State Services to reject the punishment within hours and announce plans to seek a stiffer penalty at the Court of Appeal….
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…
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…
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…
The battle for control of the Peoples Democratic Party returned to familiar ground on Friday, as a Federal High Court in Abuja struck out a suit that sought to force the electoral umpire to recognise the Kabiru Turaki led Interim National Working Committee, leaving one of Nigeria’s oldest political parties still split down the…
