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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has drawn a firm line under the widening quarrel between the Tinubu administration and the opposition, warning the Federal Government on Thursday that any harm coming to Labour Party’s former standard bearer, Peter Obi, would be an assault on Nigeria’s democracy itself. Atiku, who is the presidential candidate of…
The man at the heart of one of the most bizarre controversies to hit the Tinubu administration is back in the spotlight, and this time it is his own words, on camera, doing the talking. A video of Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, who insists he is the Director-General of the disputed Presidential Foreign Intervention…
Pressure on the Presidency over the affair of a disputed government council widened on Sunday as the Tanimu Turaki faction of the Peoples Democratic Party demanded a full, independent investigation into the allegations and counter allegations trailing the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Femi Gbajabiamila. The faction argued that the controversy had grown…
A fresh political storm has gathered around the Presidency as the African Democratic Congress pressed for an independent judicial commission of inquiry into the controversy surrounding the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, insisting that the affair has grown far beyond the fate of a single official and now touches the credibility of the Nigerian…
The Presidency has widened the net in the unfolding controversy over a bogus presidential agency, vowing on Friday to hunt down and prosecute the government insiders who allegedly allowed Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew to run a fictitious body for months without detection. What began as a forgery case has now hardened into a public…
Pressure on the presidency over the disputed Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council mounted sharply on Friday as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar handed President Bola Tinubu a seven-day ultimatum to order what he called a transparent, comprehensive and independent investigation into the affair, warning that silence would be read as complicity. The former vice…
Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew has spent the better part of two years moving through the corridors of official Abuja with the confidence of a man who belonged there. He held meetings inside the Federal Secretariat, received foreign delegations, exchanged handshakes with directors-general and lawmakers, and signed correspondence as the Director-General of the Presidential Foreign…
The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, has said he does not personally see the level of hunger frequently described in public discussions, defending the administration’s economic record even as official data points to deepening hardship across the country. Speaking on Arise Television on Tuesday, June 23, 2026,…
A fresh dispute over Nigeria’s troubled electricity sector has opened between the Presidency and the opposition, after Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, dismissed a campaign pledge by Peter Obi to raise power generation and distribution by at least 10,000 megawatts within four years. Onanuga criticised the recent promise by…
The Presidency has dismissed as “childish, hollow and an unworthy distraction” the call by Nigerian Democratic Congress presidential candidate Peter Obi for President Bola Tinubu’s resignation, framing the demand as a misreading of Nigeria’s constitutional order and a reaction to the All Progressives Congress’s recent electoral gains. In a statement signed on Monday by…
