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Pressure is mounting on Nigeria’s anti-corruption agencies to unravel what became of the $1.5 billion sunk into the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refinery, with a Niger Delta advocacy group now demanding a forensic look at the spending and a wider audit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited’s books. The South South Youths…
A teenager who sat her first professional accounting examination while many of her peers were still choosing a career path has quietly rewritten the record books of one of Nigeria’s most demanding professions. Osasere Okundaye, aged 16, has qualified as a chartered accountant through the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, becoming the youngest person…
The Senate has moved to calm one of the most persistent fears surrounding Nigeria’s proposed shift to decentralised policing, insisting that the new legal framework gives the federal police clear grounds to step in wherever a state police outfit is turned into a weapon of electoral intimidation or presides over a collapse of public…
Pressure on the Presidency over the affair of a disputed government council widened on Sunday as the Tanimu Turaki faction of the Peoples Democratic Party demanded a full, independent investigation into the allegations and counter allegations trailing the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Femi Gbajabiamila. The faction argued that the controversy had grown…
The Federal Government has moved to shut down a fast spreading narrative that it quietly spent trillions of naira outside the approved budget, insisting that reports crediting the claim to the International Monetary Fund misrepresent what the Fund actually said. The pushback came on Sunday in a statement from the Minister of Finance and…
A worsening tide of armed violence has now uprooted more than 3.5 million people across the Lake Chad Basin, pushing one of the world’s most protracted humanitarian emergencies to what the United Nations refugee agency has described as a dangerous tipping point. The warning came from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which…
The Oyo State Government has firmly pushed back against fresh allegations that it secretly paid money to the armed group holding dozens of pupils and teachers seized from three schools in Oriire Local Government Area, insisting that no ransom has changed hands as the ordeal enters its seventh week. The rebuttal came on Friday…
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has offered one of his most candid political self-assessments yet, describing his years in the Peoples Democratic Party as time spent in the “wrong party” and insisting that his true political home has always been with the All Progressives Congress. The remark, delivered in Abuja on Friday, adds another layer…
A fresh political storm has gathered around the Presidency as the African Democratic Congress pressed for an independent judicial commission of inquiry into the controversy surrounding the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, insisting that the affair has grown far beyond the fate of a single official and now touches the credibility of the Nigerian…
Pressure on the presidency over the disputed Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council mounted sharply on Friday as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar handed President Bola Tinubu a seven-day ultimatum to order what he called a transparent, comprehensive and independent investigation into the affair, warning that silence would be read as complicity. The former vice…
