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Nigeria’s rank-and-file soldiers now take home a minimum of N100,000 a month, more than double the N49,000 they earned only a couple of years ago, yet the country’s defence chief concedes that the money flowing into the armed forces still falls short of what the war against insurgency and banditry demands. Defence Minister Christopher…
Almost eight weeks after gunmen stormed three schools in the Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State and seized dozens of pupils and their teachers, the fate of the captives has taken a darker turn, with the Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa, disclosing that the abductors have threatened to kill the children if soldiers…
The detention of a journalist attached to opposition figure Omoyele Sowore has opened a fresh dispute between the Department of State Services and civil rights campaigners, with the security agency insisting the matter is a straightforward regulatory breach while Sowore maintains it is a calculated move to frustrate his ongoing court case. The journalist,…
Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa (retd.), has drawn a hard line for the country’s security forces, warning that any operative who holds fire while waiting for instructions from above will be treated as a friend of the very criminals he was sent to fight. The minister issued the directive on Wednesday in…
Lawmakers in the upper chamber have signalled their strongest intent yet to confront Nigeria’s long running counterfeit medicine crisis, advancing a bill that would send anyone convicted of producing or trafficking fake drugs to prison for up to 15 years and strip them of assets tied to the trade. The Counterfeit Medical Products, Fake…
The long-running effort to hold someone accountable for the billions of dollars poured into Nigeria’s dead refineries reached a courtroom on Wednesday, as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arraigned the former Managing Director of the Port Harcourt Refining Company Limited, Ahmed Adamu Dikko, before the Federal High Court in Abuja on a 12 count…
Peter Obi has raised the stakes in Nigeria’s opposition politics with a stark declaration that he may not survive to contest the 2027 presidential election, tying his fears directly to what he described as sustained pressure from the Tinubu administration on his person and his businesses. The former Anambra State governor, now the presidential…
A fresh dispute has broken out over the welfare of former Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, with the African Democratic Congress and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission offering sharply conflicting accounts of a hospital visit that has now become the latest flashpoint in one of the most closely watched…
Two men who once ran Nigeria’s most strategic petroleum plants are heading to the dock this week, as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission opens formal trials tied to the alleged diversion of funds set aside to revive the country’s ailing refineries. The former Managing Director of the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company Ltd,…
Five hundred and thirty one Nigerians were detected entering the United Kingdom through illegal routes between the first quarter of 2018 and the first quarter of 2026, according to official immigration figures released by the UK Home Office, a body of data that places Nigeria tenth among African nationalities recorded on the country’s illegal…
