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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar launched a fierce attack on President Bola Tinubu on Monday, 14 September 2026, demanding a forensic audit of federation revenue as petrol pump prices touched 1,470 naira per litre. The African Democratic Congress presidential candidate accused the administration of running an organised system of grand larceny behind opaque deductions from…
Nigeria faces another shutdown of its public universities as the Academic Staff Union of Universities threatens to resume its suspended nationwide strike without further notice. Union president Christopher Piwuna issued the warning on Friday morning following an emergency meeting of the National Executive Council at the University of Abuja. Lecturers point to the incomplete implementation…
President Bola Tinubu’s latest attempt to stop the release of US investigative records has revived a three decade old controversy, but the legal dispute now centres less on whether a 1993 forfeiture occurred and more on whether records from an American law enforcement investigation can be withheld under US privacy and investigative exemptions. Tinubu,…
The proposal by a pro President Bola Tinubu support group for Peter Obi to withdraw from the 2027 presidential race and support the incumbent has opened a larger question about the political arithmetic of the Southeast, and whether an alliance between the region and the Southwest can realistically alter the succession calculations ahead of…
President Bola Tinubu’s three week European leave has arrived at a politically significant moment, with the 2027 presidential campaign already underway and the constitutional question of how presidential powers are handled during a vacation once again relevant to public scrutiny. Tinubu left Abuja on Sunday, August 30, for a three week annual leave, with London,…
Atiku Abubakar fired back at President Bola Tinubu on Friday, accusing the presidency of confusing public suffering with sound economic management. The former vice-president responded after Tinubu mocked his proposal to restore and restructure petrol subsidies as a sign of serious ignorance. In a statement released through his media aide Phrank Shaibu, Atiku argued that…
Governor Ademola Adeleke’s closed door meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday has drawn intense political attention, coming only five days after his re-election and at the very moment national alliances are being rearranged for the 2027 general elections. Adeleke arrived at the State House at about 5:20pm…
Two of Nigeria’s biggest fuel marketing bodies have thrown their weight behind President Bola Tinubu’s pledge to revive the country’s state owned refineries, rejecting former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s verdict that the plants will never run profitably, in a dispute that turns on decades of heavy spending and repeated failure. The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association…
President Bola Tinubu has approved yet another overhaul of Nigeria’s security architecture, ordering a new committee to produce a five-year defence plan within 90 days, even as fresh data and persistent gun violence cast doubt on whether another framework can address the governance failures that previous reforms left unresolved. The directive, issued at Wednesday’s Federal…
Governor Ademola Adeleke’s Special Adviser and Spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, has pushed back against suggestions that Osun State residents were blindsided by the governor’s endorsement of President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 re-election bid, insisting the endorsement predates Adeleke’s own victory at Saturday’s governorship poll. Rasheed made the clarification on Arise Television on Tuesday, responding to questions…