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A fiscal argument over how ₦12.8 trillion is parked inside Nigeria’s 2026 budget has hardened into one of the sharpest personal confrontations of the pre 2027 political season, with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar accusing the Presidency of trading disclosure for insults, and the Presidency accusing him of exporting a domestic quarrel to Washington….
Brent crude closed above $100 a barrel on Thursday for the first time since late May, after Iran aligned Houthi fighters struck Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea and opened a second maritime front in a conflict that has already crippled traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. The international benchmark settled 7 percent…
A disputed agency that lawmakers say never legally existed has forced the Nigerian state to account for itself in real time, with the House of Representatives on Tuesday handing defaulting government offices a 48 hour ultimatum to produce documents and officials in a probe that has now drawn in two ministers, the National Security…
Nigeria’s public debt has become the most contested number in the country’s fiscal conversation, and the Federal Government moved on Monday to reclaim the narrative, telling senators that the widely repeated figure of N80 trillion in fresh borrowing under President Bola Tinubu is exaggerated and rooted more in accounting than in new loans….
The Central Bank of Nigeria and the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation on Monday drew a firm line between themselves and the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, telling federal lawmakers that neither institution created, funded nor staffed the body now at the centre of one of the year’s…
The House of Representatives opens a formal inquiry today into how a council that the Federal Government insists never legally existed secured more than N1.3bn in the 2026 Appropriation Act, yet the two men at the heart of the controversy have not been called to testify, raising early questions about the reach and credibility…
The man at the centre of one of the most audacious impersonation scandals to hit the Nigerian public service in years has broken his silence, insisting he is not on the run even as the Nigeria Police Force moves to place him before a judge on forgery and impersonation charges. Adeniyi Adeyemi, who styled…
Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, the man at the centre of one of the most curious impersonation scandals to hit the seat of government in recent years, is scheduled to finally take his plea before a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday, July 14, as the police move to arraign him over an agency the Presidency…
Pressure over the phantom Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) has continued to mount inside the National Assembly, with the House of Representatives and the Senate charting opposite courses on how to confront a scandal that has already unsettled the Presidency and drawn President Bola Tinubu into issuing a 30-day investigative order. At plenary…
The Nigerian Senate has deferred legislative action on the controversy surrounding a fictitious presidential agency that successfully secured a N1.3 billion allocation in the 2026 national budget. Lawmakers resolved to pause any independent parliamentary inquiries until the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission concludes its ongoing criminal investigation. This tactical pause prevents an…
