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Former Senate President Pius Anyim has defended President Bola Tinubu’s decision to skip the United Nations General Assembly in New York, insisting the Vice President is fully capable of standing in and that Nigerians already understand the President is on leave. Speaking on Arise News’ Prime Time on Monday, Anyim, who also served as…
President Bola Tinubu will not attend the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, his third consecutive absence from the annual gathering, and the decision has drawn a demand for explanation from his leading opponent in the 2027 race. In a statement on Sunday, 20 September 2026, the spokesperson to…
A sharp exchange over how public money should be spent has pitched President Bola Tinubu against a section of civil society, after the President faulted governors for building flyovers and a youth group swiftly turned the same charge back on him over the Lagos to Calabar Coastal Highway. The row traces to Thursday, July…
Nigeria’s costly electricity subsidy is heading for the exit. Minister of Power Joseph Tegbe announced on Friday that the Federal Government will begin phasing it out from 2027, framing the move as central to rescuing a power sector buried under trillions of naira in unpaid bills. Speaking at a media session in Abuja, Tegbe…
A decades old United States forfeiture matter that has shadowed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu since his years as a private businessman has been thrust back into the centre of Nigeria’s political contest, this time through the corridors of power in Washington rather than the courtrooms of Abuja. Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C., a Washington based…
Weeks of evasion ended for Adeniyi Adeyemi on Tuesday when operatives of the police Intelligence Response Team tracked the self styled Director General of the disputed Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council to a hideout in Osun State, only hours after a Federal High Court in Abuja ordered his arrest. The swift sequence of events…
President Bola Tinubu gathered his entire security establishment at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday evening for a closed-door review of a threat picture that has grown more complicated by the week, bringing together the military high command, intelligence heads and homeland security advisers for a session that ran beyond two hours. The State…
A privately authored, five-year blueprint proposing N154 trillion to overhaul Nigeria’s education system has entered public debate at a moment when the country still carries the world’s heaviest burden of out-of-school children and continues to fund the sector well below international benchmarks. The plan, branded the Nigeria Education Transformation Initiative, was set out in…
The long-running controversy over President Bola Tinubu’s academic records has resurfaced ahead of the 2027 general election, with a civil society group petitioning the Independent National Electoral Commission to reopen scrutiny of the qualifications he used to secure clearance for the 2023 presidential contest. The petition, dated June 19, 2026, was filed by the…
A fresh appeal for the release of detained Indigenous People of Biafra leader Nnamdi Kanu has come from the founder of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, who urged the Federal Government to free the separatist agitator or apply the same treatment to Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi. Ayodele made the call while…