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A Nigerian national and three currency exchange firms operating in Lagos and Kano now sit on Washington’s terrorism blacklist, after the United States accused them of channelling funds for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria through Nigeria’s bureau de change sector. The designations, announced on Monday, June 22, 2026, by the U.S. Department…
Gunmen who stormed Kawel village in Mushere District of Bokkos Local Government Area have left at least 22 people dead, including health workers and patients shot inside a primary healthcare centre, deepening fears over the collapse of rural security in Plateau State. The Plateau State Police Command confirmed 20 deaths, while community leaders put the…
A homemade bomb concealed beneath a parked vehicle ripped through a residential street in the Oke Mushin area of Lagos on Monday morning, injuring the car owner and sending shockwaves of fear through a community more accustomed to commercial bustle than security scares. The blast went off around 6 a.m. at 22, Wey Street,…
The Presidency has dismissed as “childish, hollow and an unworthy distraction” the call by Nigerian Democratic Congress presidential candidate Peter Obi for President Bola Tinubu’s resignation, framing the demand as a misreading of Nigeria’s constitutional order and a reaction to the All Progressives Congress’s recent electoral gains. In a statement signed on Monday by…
Fifty elderly residents of Magamin Diddi village in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State remain in the grip of bandits more than two weeks after they were seized while attempting to broker peace with a notorious gang leader, even as Governor Dauda Lawal insists his administration will not negotiate with armed groups. The…
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday replayed a television interview granted by former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, as human rights lawyer Deji Adeyanju testified in the alleged phone-tapping case brought against the former governor by the State Security Service. Testifying before Justice Joyce Abdulmalik as the second prosecution witness, Adeyanju told…
A fresh demand for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to step down has emerged from the opposition, with Nigeria Democratic Congress presidential candidate Peter Obi pointing to the resignation of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as a model of political accountability the Nigerian leader should follow. Obi made the call in a statement on his…
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has delivered a withering verdict on Keir Starmer’s premiership, branding him “a terrible Prime Minister” within hours of his resignation and pinning Britain’s troubles on Labour’s wider policy direction rather than the outgoing leader alone. In a statement posted on her official X account shortly after Starmer announced his…
The Indigenous People of Biafra has defended detained leader Nnamdi Kanu’s indefinite expulsion of members of its dissolved Third Directorate of State, with the deputy head of the newly constituted Fourth DOS, Solomon Egbo, alleging that the affected officials worked to undermine Kanu’s authority and threatened the survival of the movement. In a statement…
A High Court in Harare has acquitted Zimbabwe Independent editor Faith Zaba of undermining President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s authority, ending nearly a year of prosecution over a satirical column and handing Zimbabwe’s embattled press corps a rare legal victory. The High Court in Harare quashed the charges on Friday, the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights,…
