Senate Scrutinises $516m Deutsche Bank Loan For 1,000-km Highway

  President Bola Tinubu has formally approached the Senate for authorisation to secure a $516,333,070 syndicated loan from Deutsche Bank AG, a facility intended to bankroll the initial sections of the Sokoto–Badagry Super Highway. The request, contained in a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio and read during Thursday’s plenary, marks the administration’s latest…

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FG Unveils Central Compensation Help Desk

  A new frontline service hub established within the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation is set to dismantle decades of bureaucratic friction that have slowed access to workplace injury compensation for federal workers. The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, under Managing Director Oluwaseun Falaye, commissioned an Employees’ Compensation…

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Ted Cruz Alleges Nigeria Complicity in Attacks

  A United States senator has levelled serious allegations against Nigerian government officials, accusing them of complicity in attacks against Christians, even as a former Nigerian minister dismissed claims of religious genocide as “fake news” during a separate engagement in the United Kingdom. Senator Ted Cruz made the assertion during a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee…

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Nigeria’s Public Debt Hits N159 Trillion

  Total public debt stock for Africa’s largest economy climbed to N159.28 trillion as of December 2025, with domestic borrowing now constituting the larger share of the nation’s liabilities, according to official figures released by the Debt Management Office. The data, which aggregates the obligations of the Federal Government, the 36 state governments, and the…

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US Lawmaker Accuses Nigeria Defence Minister of Cover-Up

  Fresh allegations from a United States lawmaker have intensified scrutiny of Nigeria’s worsening security situation, with claims that senior defence officials attempted to influence international reactions to reports of killings in parts of the country. Kimberly Daniels, a member of the Florida House of Representatives and Chairwoman of the United World Congress of Diplomats…

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Forensic Report Debunks Viral Claims Against INEC Chairman

  Nigeria’s electoral body has initiated legal action over a viral social media controversy, confirming plans to track and arrest individuals behind a fake account falsely linked to its chairman, Joash Ojo Amupitan. The Independent National Electoral Commission said its decision follows a detailed forensic and cybersecurity investigation which found no evidence connecting the chairman…

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Iran Accuses US Of Bad Faith as Ceasefire Deadline Nears

  Iran’s Foreign Ministry declared Monday that Washington is not genuinely pursuing a diplomatic resolution to the weeks-long war, accusing the United States of repeated ceasefire violations that have undermined fragile truce efforts. Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei, speaking at a weekly press briefing in Tehran, said American actions “do not in any way indicate seriousness…

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Rights Groups Condemn NBC’s ‘Censorship’ of Broadcast Media

  A formal notice issued by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on April 17, 2026, warning broadcasters against expressing personal opinions, allegedly intimidating guests, or deviating from neutrality, has triggered sharp condemnation from former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), and Amnesty International. The commission, citing a rise in breaches of…

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