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An estimated 30,000 armed Fulani militants are currently driving rural insecurity and religious freedom violations across Nigeria. This disclosure forms the core of a new report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. The document characterizes these fluid nomadic factions as some of the deadliest non-state actors operating within the country. Moving in…
President Bola Tinubu announced yesterday that the difficult period of his administration’s economic reforms has ended. In his Eid-el-Kabir message, the president declared that the nation has completed its walk through a dark tunnel. He claimed that three years of public sacrifice have stabilized the economy. The president now positions the country as a preferred…
The United States has disbursed $187.3m in foreign assistance to Nigeria as Washington considers applying stricter conditions to future funding. Data published by the US Department of State confirms the cash release, positioning Nigeria as the second-largest aid recipient in sub-Saharan Africa this period, behind Ethiopia. The bulk of the capital flowed directly through the…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has launched a fierce legal defense of fuel imports to prevent a private monopoly. In a counter-affidavit filed at the Federal High Court in Lagos, the state oil firm urged judges to dismiss a lawsuit by Aliko Dangote. The billionaire’s twenty-billion-dollar refinery wants the court to void import permits…
Nigeria maintained its position as the third-largest global borrower from the World Bank’s International Development Association despite a marginal reduction in its debt stock. The nation’s outstanding exposure to the concessional lending arm stood at $18.5 billion as of March 31, 2026. This figure marks a slight 1.7 percent drop from the $18.7 billion recorded…
The United Nations has warned that nearly 35 million Nigerians face acute food insecurity as the annual agricultural lean season approaches. The UN Humanitarian Country Team disclosed that one in seven citizens will struggle to find food between June and August. These projections position Nigeria among the largest hunger crises globally, with the deficit concentrated…
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has returned a batch of 497 stranded Nigerian migrants from the neighbouring Niger Republic. The repatriated citizens arrived at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano aboard a chartered aircraft early this week. Officials executed the evacuation operation in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) under…
More than 2.1 million pregnant women now access antenatal care services across Nigeria under new federal healthcare reforms. The Nigeria Health Sector Renewal Investment Initiative aims to fix systemic gaps in governance, infrastructure, and workforce distribution. National coordinator for the Sector-Wide Approach (SWAp), Muntaqa Umar-Sadiq, announced the milestone during a progress briefing on Friday. The…
President Bola Tinubu has condemned the killing of an educator during a coordinated raid on schools in the Esiele community of Oyo State, labelling the act barbaric. Gunmen riding motorcycles invaded three education centres in the Oriire Local Government Area last Friday, abducting an unknown number of pupils, students, and academic staff. The Presidency confirmed…
Former President Goodluck Jonathan warned that Nigerians are becoming dangerously desensitised to persistent insecurity and mass murder. Speaking at a book launch in Abuja, the former leader lamented that citizens now treat news of violent deaths as routine daily occurrences. He contrasted this current apathy with the national outrage that followed early insurgent attacks during…
