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Nigeria’s Super Eagles have emerged as the second-highest-ranked team absent from the 2026 FIFA World Cup, holding firm at 26th in the latest FIFA Men’s World Ranking even as the expanded 48-nation tournament gets under way across the United States, Mexico and Canada. Only Denmark, ranked 21st globally, sits higher among countries that failed…
Soldiers of the Nigerian Army, backed by the Air Force, have rescued Mrs Amina Abubakar, widow of the late Major General Rabe Abubakar, weeks after bandits seized her and her husband on a Katsina road, even as the military widened its offensive across the troubled state. The Defence Headquarters announced the rescue on Monday,…
A Federal High Court ruling directing the Independent National Electoral Commission to deregister the African Democratic Congress and four other parties has triggered a wave of outrage from opposition figures, who cast the decision as a calculated assault on Nigeria’s multiparty democracy months before the 2027 general elections. Justice Peter Lifu delivered the judgment…
Nigeria’s headline inflation rate rose to 15.93 per cent in May 2026, the third straight monthly increase in the annual rate, as the organised private sector pinned the worsening trend on Middle East tensions, rising energy costs, insecurity and import bottlenecks. The Consumer Price Index report released by the National Bureau of Statistics on…
Households and small businesses across Nigeria are paying nearly two and a half times more for cooking gas than they did at the start of the year, pushing marketers toward large scale importation in a bid to crash prices and end a biting scarcity. Cooking gas now sells at N2,400 per kilogramme in several locations,…
The Central Bank of Nigeria has directed banks, fintech firms and payment service providers to store all payment transaction data generated within the country on local servers effective January 1, 2027. The directive forms part of broader reforms aimed at strengthening oversight of the rapidly expanding digital payments sector. In a circular issued by…
Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has described Monday’s Federal High Court judgment ordering the deregistration of five political parties, including his Accord Party, as an abuse of court process and a violation of a subsisting order from the Court of Appeal. In a statement issued in Osogbo on Monday by his spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed,…
Former Minister of Education Obiageli Ezekwesili has told President Bola Tinubu, the National Assembly and the Nigerian Governors’ Forum that the proposed state police will not resolve Nigeria’s insecurity crisis without comprehensive constitutional restructuring. In an open letter shared on Monday across her social media platforms, Ezekwesili argued that the Tinubu administration’s renewed push…
The African Democratic Congress has rejected a Federal High Court ruling directing the Independent National Electoral Commission to deregister it and four other parties, describing the decision as a dangerous attempt to weaponise the judiciary against Nigeria’s democratic process ahead of the 2027 general elections. Justice Peter Lifu delivered the judgment on Monday in…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has directed the Independent National Electoral Commission to deregister five political parties for failing to meet the constitutional and electoral performance thresholds required under Nigerian law. Justice Peter Lifu delivered the judgment on Monday in a suit filed by the Incorporated Trustees of the National Forum of Former…
