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Fresh ground shaking in Nigeria’s capital on Tuesday morning has once again placed the Federal Capital Territory’s quiet but recurring seismic record under public scrutiny, with the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency (NGSA) confirming a light earth tremor that rattled several buildings before dissipating in five seconds. The Seismic Monitoring Station at Utako recorded the…
Three Nigerians are among 25 naturalised Americans whose citizenship the United States Department of Justice is now moving to strip in federal courts, the largest single wave of denaturalisation filings the department says it has ever undertaken. The complaints, filed in various US district courts between July 20 and August 3, 2026, were announced by…
Ten additional passport offices across northern and southern Nigeria will have their booklets produced exclusively in Abuja from Monday, August 10, 2026, a shift that triggered fears of a service shutdown and forced the Nigeria Immigration Service into a public clarification on Wednesday. The Service, in a post on its official X handle, dismissed suggestions…
A businessman’s account of how he raised and transferred N400 million to a man he believed to be a serving federal director general has pulled the controversy surrounding the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council into a new and more personal phase, shifting attention from budget lines and forged letterheads to the ordinary Nigerians who…
A single letter to a bank has pushed Osun State into the sharpest confrontation yet between a subnational government and Nigeria’s foremost anti graft agency, ten days before voters choose a governor on August 15. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday directed First Bank to place a “Post No Debit” restriction on…
Five bank transfers spread across ten weeks of 2025 have become the clearest window yet into how a body the Federal Government says never legally existed managed to move money, occupy federal offices and slip into Nigeria’s national budget. The House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee investigating the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council announced…
A dispute over whether a Catholic cardinal took sides in Nigeria’s last presidential election has drawn two of the country’s most combative political figures into open disagreement, barely two weeks before campaigning for the 2027 general election legally begins. Rotimi Amaechi, former Minister of Transportation and vice presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC),…
Two invitations issued days apart from the same police department have placed one of Nigeria’s most senior officers and one of its loudest online critics on the same investigative table, and reopened an uncomfortable national argument about who polices the police. The Nigeria Police Force confirmed on Tuesday, August 4, 2026, that the Assistant…
Two men who once shared the same political household, one as governor and the other as his chief of staff, now stand on opposite ends of a fight over who truly owns Rivers State, and the numbers behind that fight tell a more complicated story than either side admits. Minister of the Federal Capital…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has thrown out an attempt by the Nigeria Democratic Congress to nullify the section of the Electoral Act 2026 that stripped candidate qualification of its status as a ground for challenging election results, in a ruling that leaves one of the most contested reforms in the new electoral…
