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Fresh bloodshed in Southern Kaduna has reopened Nigeria’s bitter argument over worsening insecurity, with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar accusing the administration of President Bola Tinubu of prioritising foreign applause over the safety of citizens. In a statement issued on Monday by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku, who is…
Nigeria’s opposition leaders have broken into bitter factions over plans to present a single candidate against President Bola Tinubu in 2027. Fresh feuds erupted after former President Olusegun Obasanjo moved to broker a joint ticket between Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso. Obasanjo’s political aides insist the former general personally engineered the alliance to build a…
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….
Foreign praise cannot substitute for domestic performance at the ballot box. The African Democratic Congress warned President Bola Tinubu that a commendation letter from US President Donald Trump will not save him from political defeat in 2027. The opposition party reacted after presidential aides enthusiastically circulated the diplomatic letter across public channels. Trump had praised…
President Bola Tinubu has approved the expansion of the Nigerian Army from eight to twelve divisions. The ambitious military restructuring includes the immediate recruitment of twenty-eight thousand new personnel to boost operational capacity. Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu announced the sweeping reform during a military conference in Abuja. The expansion creates specialized…
Nigeria has taken its most decisive step yet toward breaking the federal monopoly on policing. The House of Representatives on Thursday passed the Executive Bill seeking to establish state police forces nationwide. Lawmakers withdrew their own earlier constitutional amendment proposal during plenary to adopt President Bola Tinubu’s executive version instead. The legislative breakthrough follows the…
Nigeria has once again emerged as Africa’s most populous nation, with its population estimated at 242.4 million in 2026, a figure that cements its demographic dominance on the continent even as the country marks nearly two decades without an official headcount. The estimate, published by Worldometer and drawn from the United Nations Population Division’s…
A rumour that swept across Nigerian social media this week pushed the Minister of Defence, General Christopher Gwabin Musa (retd.), into a rare public rebuttal on Tuesday, as he stepped out of a closed door meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja to declare that he had no intention…
President Bola Tinubu’s congratulatory message to Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, the incoming President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), carried more than the usual ceremony. Alongside praise for a historic victory, the President added a pointed instruction: to reach out to her rivals, unify a divided bar, and “make efforts to correct issues that arose during…
Yoruba nation activist Chief Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, says more than 80,000 volunteers have now registered for his Iru Ekun Security Network, a figure that overshoots the 50,000 target the outfit set for itself and places the region’s newest community security experiment squarely within the national conversation on insecurity. In a…
