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A Dublin court has sentenced two Nigerian nationals to a combined 16 and a half years in prison for their roles in a global money laundering network linked to more than €6 million in fraud proceeds. The convicted men, Ejike Francis Ogbuefi, 42, and Steven Silvester, 32, were found guilty of directing the activities…
Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has issued a formal public apology over the severe electricity outages that have plunged homes, businesses, schools and industries into darkness over the past month, pledging that improvements in power supply would begin within two weeks. The apology, delivered at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, came…
The Labour Party has officially zoned its 2027 presidential ticket to the southern region of Nigeria, effectively barring aspirants from the northern part of the country. The party’s acting National Chairperson, Nenadi Usman, announced the decision during an interview with journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, describing it as a firm position adopted by the…
Nasir El-Rufai, the former Governor of Kaduna State, appeared in court on Tuesday morning to face a barrage of corruption and security charges. Shuttered in a white van and flanked by a heavy Department of State Services (DSS) escort, the former governor made his first public appearance since his February arrest. The Independent Corrupt Practices…
Nigeria’s petrol import bill dropped to $10 billion in 2025, a 28.88 percent decline from the $14.06 billion spent the previous year. Data from the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) latest balance of payments report attributes this sharp contraction to the commencement of domestic production at the Dangote Refinery. The 650,000-barrel-per-day facility began churning out…
Troops of the Nigerian Army have neutralised dozens of armed bandits in a fierce gun battle at the notorious hideout of bandit kingpin Bello Turji, located deep inside Kagara Forest in Fakai community, spanning Shinkafi Local Government Area of Zamfara State and Isa Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The operation, which took place…
A nationwide assessment of fiscal transparency at the grassroots level has exposed a severe deficit in public access to local government financial information, with only 10 of Nigeria’s 36 states making annual budgets of their Local Government Areas publicly available online. The findings, contained in a report titled “The Missing Tier: Mapping Local…
The United Kingdom has commenced a strategic expansion of detention infrastructure designed to accelerate the removal of foreign offenders and illegal migrants from British territory, a move coinciding with and directly enabled by a newly formalised bilateral agreement with Nigeria that streamlines the repatriation of thousands of undocumented nationals. The UK Home Office announced yesterday…
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has commenced large-scale exports of refined fuel to five African nations, marking a shift in West Africa’s energy dynamics. International traders recently moved 12 cargoes totalling 456,000 tonnes of petroleum products to markets in Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Tanzania, Ghana, and Togo. This milestone follows the facility reaching its full processing capacity…
The Ghanaian government has secured the return of 44 citizens rescued from a sophisticated human trafficking syndicate operating in Nigeria. In a coordinated operation involving Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS) and Ghanaian intelligence, the victims were extracted from exploitative conditions and flown back to Accra on Friday. This intervention marks a significant success in cross-border…
