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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…
Pressure on the Presidency over the widening PFIPC scandal has taken a sharper turn, with Paul Ibe, Media Adviser to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, insisting that President Bola Tinubu’s order for an anti-graft probe means little unless the officials at the heart of the matter step aside first. Ibe, in a post on…
A fresh political storm has gathered around the 2026 budget after former Vice President Atiku Abubakar accused President Bola Tinubu of presiding over what he called a deliberate pattern of budget manipulation, following disclosures that an education agency created to rescue millions of out-of-school children was loaded with billions of naira for road construction…
The Federal Government has moved to shut down a fast spreading narrative that it quietly spent trillions of naira outside the approved budget, insisting that reports crediting the claim to the International Monetary Fund misrepresent what the Fund actually said. The pushback came on Sunday in a statement from the Minister of Finance and…
An admission from the International Monetary Fund that Nigeria left public spending worth about two per cent of its Gross Domestic Product out of recent budget records has handed the opposition fresh ammunition, with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar now demanding that President Bola Tinubu’s government account for money he insists “somebody spent” and…
Nigeria’s fiscal managers have thrown open the debt taps at a pace not seen in recent memory, moving early and aggressively into the domestic market to raise cash before borrowing costs climb any higher. The strategy, described in the latest Fixed Income Thematic Report by Meristem Securities Limited, points to a government determined to…
The Federal Government has raised its 2026 independent revenue target to N2.5tn to boost non-oil income. Acting Executive Chairman of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission, Charles Abana, announced the fresh target in Abuja. The policy shift follows the close monitoring of N1.84trn generated by public agencies as of September 2025. This ambitious fiscal benchmark comes at…
