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Nigeria’s mega-refinery near Lagos cemented its status as Europe’s top jet fuel source for a second straight month in July. Ship tracking data shows the giant Lekki plant shipped over 400,000 tonnes of jet fuel to European ports last month. That output captured one-fifth of the continent’s entire aviation fuel import market. The Nigerian facility…
Global food prices surged to their highest point in over three years this July as conflict and extreme weather battered farm yields. The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s price index reached 131.1 points, eclipsing June’s reading of 130.3. The United Nations agency blamed rising grain and vegetable oil costs for driving the monthly jump. Prolonged dry…
A massive petroleum fire tore through central Abuja late Thursday night, leaving three firefighters injured and scorching government infrastructure. An exploding fuel tanker packed with 45,000 litres of petrol sparked the blaze at an AYM Shafa station in Garki. First responders rushed to the scene around mid-evening as high flames threatened adjacent commercial districts. One…
A legislative probe into a fake presidential council exposed deep weakness in the federal bureaucracy on Thursday. The State House told lawmakers it never approved or created the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council. Yet the fake agency secured budget codes, seized secretariat offices, and obtained official government vehicle number plates. Federal Road Safety Corps officials…
A second senior change at the British High Commission in Abuja has been confirmed within eight weeks, with the United Kingdom government naming Ms Vicky Seymour as its new Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, filling the seat vacated by Mrs Gill Lever OBE, who concluded her tour of duty in June 2026 . The…
Six hours of gunfire, a burning village and a capsized boat have again exposed the fragility of security in eastern Sokoto State, where at least 21 people are feared dead and 37 others abducted after heavily armed men stormed Tsamaye community in Sabon Birni Local Government Area. The assault began around 9 p.m. on…
Afrobeats star David Adeleke, better known as Davido, will on Wednesday face journalists and residents in Osogbo to speak on security, the preparations of the Independent National Electoral Commission and questions of transparency surrounding the August 15 Osun State governorship election, according to an invitation released by the Imole Campaign Council on Tuesday. The…
Justice Faruku Hassan Bunza of the Kebbi State High Court has regained his freedom after seven days in bandit captivity. Gunmen snatched the jurist from his residence in Bunza Local Government Area shortly after he returned from Sokoto State on July 26. Police spokesperson Bashir Usman confirmed his safe release on Monday morning following confirmation…
Adeniyi Adeyemi, the detained head of a disputed presidential investment council, is fighting back against accusations that he invented the fake federal agency out of thin air. His legal team insists that key state institutions actively approved, funded, and housed the body over an extended period. The unfolding scandal exposes alarming gaps across Nigeria’s administrative…
Ghana has taken its firmest step yet toward reshaping the presidency, after the government endorsed a proposal to lengthen the president’s term from four to five years and open the ballot to younger contenders. The decision, announced in Accra on Thursday, sets in motion a long constitutional process that will ultimately be settled not…
