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On his 66th birthday in February this year, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai walked into the Abuja headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in response to an invitation. He remains in captivity as Nigeria marks its own 66th independence anniversary today. But his travails are with the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences […]
Continue ReadingChrista Pike was in critical condition Thursday and receiving “lifesaving care” at a hospital, her lawyers said, a day after a failed attempt to execute her pushed Tennessee’s governor to halt further executions this year and order an independent review. Pike, who was sentenced to death for a 1995 murder, was taken to a […]
Continue ReadingA student of Ekiti State University (EKSU) has slammed the Bola Tinubu Renewed Hope Digital Acceleration Programme for students, alleging that an event advertised around the distribution of laptops left many students without the devices they expected to receive. The student, identified on X as @renny_theVA, said students were invited to the programme on Wednesday, […]
Continue ReadingIn his Independence Day address to Nigerians, President Bola Tinubu on Thursday declared that Nigeria has moved beyond the difficult phase of his administration’s economic reforms, saying the country is entering an “age of prosperity” focused on jobs, production and improved living standards. He made the declaration in his Independence Day address to Nigerians as […]
Continue ReadingIn a suit was filed on Monday September 28, the African Action Congress (AAC) has dragged President Bola Tinubu, the Attorney General of the Federation and other senior government officials before the Federal High Court in Abuja over the President’s failure to transmit power to Vice President Kashim Shettima during his prolonged vacation outside Nigeria. […]
Continue ReadingThe Debt Management Office (DMO) says Nigeria’s total public debt rose to N166.79 trillion as of June 30, 2026. The DMO published the latest public debt portfolio report on Friday. This represents a 9.4 percent or N14.39 trillion increase from the N152.4 trillion recorded at the end of June 2025. Taking into consideration the latest […]
Continue ReadingThere was a challenge by an X user who wanted anyone to show a road built by Peter Obi that still stands after 13 years. Another X user responds to the challenge with video evidence of a 15-year old road. See the video below: 15km road. 15 years later. The road is still standing, no […]
Continue ReadingThe new Miss Universe Nigeria 2026 is Danielle Adewusi, a medical doctor and women’s health advocate, who entered the competition with a background that extends beyond pageantry. Adewusi studied Medicine at King’s College London, where she earned an MBBS and a first-class BSc in Psychology. In an interview with Punch before the competition, she said […]
Continue ReadingFederal Government has opened discussions with the World Bank for three new loans totalling $1.5bn, even as Nigeria’s public debt climbed to a record N166.79tn at the end of June 2026. Documents obtained from the World Bank show that the proposed financing comprises three separate $500m facilities for climate resilience, social protection and early childhood […]
Continue ReadingThere is something profoundly unsettling about the selective elasticity of the Tinubu presidency’s capacity for outrage. Its vocal cords appear to be in fine fettle when Catholic clerics call attention to the misery that government policies have visited on Nigerians. Those same vocal cords mysteriously retreat into quiescence when a prominent Muslim cleric transforms the […]
Continue ReadingFounder of Word Assembly Ministries (WAM), Ilorin, Rev Isaac Omolehin, has raised the alarm over a threat by bandits to attack his church camp at Idofian village in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. In a statement made available to journalists on Saturday by his spokesperson, Grace Edema, the pastor said the threat forced […]
Continue ReadingPresidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Peter Obi, has insisted that he did not borrow money or issue bonds on behalf of Anambra State during his eight years as governor. Obi, who spoke on Arise TV’s Prime Time programme on Thursday, said his administration left office in March 2014 without owing salaries, […]
Continue ReadingFormer Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Kingsley Moghalu, has rejected his inclusion in the policy team of the African Democratic Congress presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, for the 2027 election. In a statement posted on his X handle on Thursday, Moghalu, who was a presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party in the […]
Continue Reading“Women have finished me,” my friend groaned. “Everything costs money. If you take a woman to dinner, you pay. If you buy her gifts, you pay. If you marry her, you pay school fees. If she has a birthday, you pay. If she is angry, you buy peace offerings. If she is happy, you celebrate […]
Continue ReadingNigerian, Olamide Shanu, 35, has pleaded guilty in the United States to conspiracy to commit money laundering after participating in sextortion and romance fraud schemes that defrauded about 150 Americans. Shanu pleaded guilty on Monday in the District of Idaho, according to a statement issued by the US Department of Justice on Tuesday. Department of […]
Continue ReadingNigerian pastor wanted by Cameroonian authorities has gone into hiding after a mummified body was discovered buried beneath a concrete slab at a property linked to his church in Yaoundé. Cameroon Tribune reports on Tuesday that the body was found on September 19 at about 9am by officers of the Nkoabang Special Police Station during […]
Continue ReadingThe high- level meetings and debates of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) open today at the UN Headquarters in New York, United States, with about 300 heads of states and governments, Vice Presidents, Ministers, and at least a Crown Prince in attendance. This is the 81st UNGA, the UN having been established in June 1945. […]
Continue ReadingLegendary Nigerian Juju musician King Sunny Ade marks his 80th birthday, a milestone for a career that defined and internationalised Nigerian popular music. Born Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye on September 22, 1946, the master guitarist, bandleader and cultural ambassador has spent over 60 years as the soundtrack to Yoruba and Nigerian high-society celebrations. Sunny Ade revolutionised […]
Continue ReadingFormer Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, has formally joined the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), three months after resigning from the African Democratic Congress (ADC) over alleged manipulation of its presidential primary. Announcing his defection to the NDC in Abuja on Tuesday, Lawal declared his support for the party’s presidential ticket […]
Continue ReadingGame theorists warn that when two hawks meet, the expected payoff for each becomes negative: C > V > 0. Yet, it is the man who is afraid to join a fight who says: “I was not born into this household.” The ọdán tree at the doorstep never fights the homeboy’s battles. And when a […]
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