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Andy Burnham will walk through the black door of 10 Downing Street on Monday as the United Kingdom’s seventh prime minister in ten years, inheriting a bruised governing party, a jittery bond market and an economy carrying some of the heaviest borrowing costs in a generation. The former mayor of Greater Manchester takes…
Nearly a billion naira that flowed for years into hundreds of bank accounts tied to workers who may never have existed now belongs to the Federal Government, after a Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the permanent forfeiture of N941,994,079.86 traced to an alleged ghost worker scheme buried inside the country’s central payroll…
An accusation that every governor in Nigeria is misappropriating local government allocations has thrust the country’s stalled fiscal autonomy reform back into public debate, after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Ogun State, Oladipupo Adebutu, told traditional rulers in Abeokuta that the diversion of council money cuts across party lines. Adebutu made…
The diplomatic standoff between Abuja and Pretoria over compensation for Nigerians uprooted by xenophobic violence has entered a sharper legal phase, with human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, insisting that only a regional court, not the African Union, can force South Africa to pay. His intervention reframes a bilateral grievance…
The House of Representatives opens a formal inquiry today into how a council that the Federal Government insists never legally existed secured more than N1.3bn in the 2026 Appropriation Act, yet the two men at the heart of the controversy have not been called to testify, raising early questions about the reach and credibility…
Qualifications awarded in Nigeria have emerged as the most flagged in the United Kingdom’s newest review of suspected academic fraud, recording an eight per cent fraud signal rate, higher than qualifications from Pakistan at 7.3 per cent, Ghana at 5.1 per cent and India at 4.2 per cent. The reading is the highest among…
A single announcement from the Federal Ministry of Works has once again placed the question of political self commemoration at the centre of national conversation, after the government renamed its flagship coastal road the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Coastal Highway, making it the sixth public facility to bear the President’s name since he…
The Federal Government has renamed the Lagos to Calabar Coastal Highway as the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Coastal Highway, tying the country’s costliest single road project directly to the man whose administration revived it, even as questions over the project’s price tag, procurement and environmental footprint remain unresolved. Minister of Works David Umahi announced…
The Founder and General Overseer of All Christians Fellowship Mission (ACFM) and former Chaplain of the Aso Villa Chapel, Reverend William Okoye, has died. A statement signed by Godwin Tsee on behalf of the Board of Trustees and the National Executive Council of the mission said Mr Okoye died peacefully on Wednesday, 15 July….
Kenneth Okonkwo, a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and aide to the party’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, has explained that the choice of former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi as running mate for the 2027 election was intended to demonstrate that Atiku holds no prejudice against the Igbo people. Okonkwo made the…
