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  Two days after the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission handed President Bola Tinubu an interim report on the disputed Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, the African Democratic Congress and a chieftain of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Chekwas Okorie, have rejected the findings and demanded an independent investigation into how a…

  A single unsolicited bank transfer has pushed Nigeria’s fragile financial privacy regime back into national conversation, barely twelve days before campaigning formally opens for the 2027 presidential election. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, said on Friday that an unknown person paid money into one of his private…

  Two years after President Bola Tinubu signed the National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Act 2024 into law, the Nigeria Labour Congress has declared the ₦70,000 floor unfit for present economic conditions and signalled the start of a fresh round of wage bargaining with the Federal Government, setting up what promises to be one of the…

  Eight days before voters in Osun State choose a governor, a wordless Instagram Stories post by Afrobeats star David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has dragged one of Nigerian politics’ oldest and most combustible arguments back into the middle of an already tense campaign: who is qualified, on paper, to govern. Davido, nephew to…

  Two executive orders signed at the White House on Thursday, August 6, 2026, have placed Nigerian travellers back at the centre of America’s tightening immigration architecture, barely five weeks after the United States Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s first attempt to redraw the boundaries of birthright citizenship. The first order, titled “Continuing…

  Thirty days after President Bola Tinubu ordered a full investigation into one of the strangest scandals of his administration, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission returned to the Presidential Villa on Thursday with an interim report that confirmed what the Presidency had insisted since July: the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council…

  Nigeria’s police leadership has lifted the veil on the research behind the country’s most far reaching security reform in decades, disclosing that the framework now before the 36 state legislatures was drawn partly from the policing systems of India, the United States and Pakistan. The Inspector General of Police, Olatunji Disu, made the disclosure…

  Two additional fictitious federal agencies have been traced to the man at the centre of Nigeria’s most talked about impersonation scandal, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission disclosed on Thursday, deepening a case that has already dragged the Presidency, the Central Bank of Nigeria, the National Assembly and at least five…

  A political quarrel that began as a passing remark at a ministerial media chat has hardened into a formal dispute over property, reputation and legal exposure, with the Federal Capital Territory Minister’s media aide insisting that the source of funds used to acquire Chief Bode George’s Abuja residence, and not the identity of the…

  Correctional authorities in Abuja moved swiftly this week after video of a condemned prisoner broadcasting live on TikTok from a custodial centre in Abeokuta spread across Nigerian social media, forcing the removal of the officer in charge of the facility and reopening a long running debate about who really controls the country’s prisons. The…