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The Anambra State Government has challenged former governor Peter Obi to withdraw from the 2027 presidential race, saying he broke two pledges he made in office on the state’s debt and the payment of workers’ salaries. The challenge came on Tuesday in a post on the official X account of the state’s New Media Office,…
Nigeria has won a long running arbitration over the stalled Mambilla hydropower project, after a tribunal in Paris rejected a $400 million claim brought against the country by Sunrise Power and Transmission Company Limited and its principal, Leno Adesanya. The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, announced the…
The Federal High Court in Abuja has reserved ruling until 26 October on a no-case submission filed by former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai, who is standing trial over the alleged unlawful interception of telephone communications belonging to the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu. According to the court proceedings on Tuesday, both the prosecution…
The White House has begun running its own round-the-clock video channel, “Trump TV: The Essentials Station,” on the same day three major news organisations sued the administration over their exclusion from the presidential complex and the networks that normally film the president suspended their shared coverage. The channel went live on Monday, 21 September,…
Former Senate President Pius Anyim has argued that the All Progressives Congress should not be held responsible for the South-East’s failure to produce a Nigerian president since 1999, placing the blame instead on the Peoples Democratic Party’s refusal to zone its ticket to the region. Anyim made the case on Arise TV’s Prime Time…
Former Senate President Pius Anyim has defended President Bola Tinubu’s decision to skip the United Nations General Assembly in New York, insisting the Vice President is fully capable of standing in and that Nigerians already understand the President is on leave. Speaking on Arise News’ Prime Time on Monday, Anyim, who also served as…
The rights group that once campaigned to protect Nuhu Ribadu when he was pushed out of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is now on the receiving end of the kind of state pressure it warned against, a senior Amnesty International lawyer has argued in an opinion article. Kolawole Olaniyan, legal adviser at Amnesty…
President Bola Tinubu will not attend the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, his third consecutive absence from the annual gathering, and the decision has drawn a demand for explanation from his leading opponent in the 2027 race. In a statement on Sunday, 20 September 2026, the spokesperson to…
The Federal Government has completed payment of N18.96 billion in outstanding pension arrears owed to former workers of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, closing a liability that had lingered for years under the Defined Benefit Scheme. The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Taiwo Oyedele, said the final tranche…
The Obi-Kwankwaso Movement, widely known as the OK Movement, has lost its National Head of Operations, Francis Nnoli, who resigned on Sunday over what he described as a growing disconnect between the group and the Nigeria Democratic Congress ahead of the 2027 general elections. According to a statement issued by Nnoli, his exit was…