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Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday said it had opened two foreign-currency domiciliary accounts for the controversial Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council. This is as the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, appeared at the headquarters of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to testify in the ongoing investigation […]
Continue ReadingFormer Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has been appointed as Chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), by president Bola Tinubu as part of a fresh round of 26 appointments into federal government agencies and commissions. The appointments, announced on Monday in a statement by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said […]
Continue ReadingFemi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to the President, has responded to invitation extended to him by the Independent Corrupt Practises Commission (ICPC) over the ongoing investigation into the alleged fake Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC). Counsel to the Chief of Staff, Jiti Ogunye, who made this disclosure in a release stated that Gbajabiamila appeared […]
Continue ReadingOn 9 June, 2026, the Presidency announced: “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the establishment of a Presidential Task Force on Ebola Virus Disease Preparedness and Emerging Public Health Threats and ordered the immediate release of ₦10 billion as emergency intervention funding.” You remember that statement? Today is 20 July. Thank God there has been […]
Continue ReadingThe 2026 FIFA World Cup featured a record prize fund of $871 million (£662 million), making it the most lucrative tournament in the competition’s history. FIFA had initially announced a prize pool of $727 million (£552 million), representing a 50 per cent increase from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, a December report on the […]
Continue ReadingAyodele Fayose, former Ekiti State Governor’s younger brother and activist, Isaac Fayose, has reacted to the backlash that followed a viral video showing him praying with Seyi Tinubu, and said he could withdraw his support for the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), presidential candidate, Peter Obi, if he chooses. Isaac Fayose, who said this on his […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan and former First Lady Patience Jonathan recently celebrated a significant family milestone as they attended the graduation ceremony of their son, Ariwera Jonathan, at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom. The proud parents joined family members and well-wishers to witness Ariara receive his degree, marking the successful completion of […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senate on Thursday passed the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) (Amendment) Bill, 2026, proposing a N50,000 fine for anyone convicted of hawking, trading or preaching inside commercial vehicles. The bill, which seeks to strengthen road safety enforcement and curb practices considered capable of distracting drivers, now awaits presidential assent. The legislation, if signed into […]
Continue ReadingWhen Daniel Bwala, one of Bola Tinubu’s many presidential “special advisers”, likened the jobs that Nigerians based in the United Kingdom do to “modern-day slavery”, I could not help but find his choice of metaphor ironic. Rehashing the old tale of over-educated Nigerians working jobs beneath their credentialed worth is ironic precisely because Bwala himself […]
Continue Readingresh details have emerged from the Ebonyi State Ministry of Justice regarding the circumstances in which 26-year-old Mary Habila was found dead at the residence of the Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, with the state’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) revealing that she was discovered naked, lying lifeless on the floor, with blood around […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Catholic priest, Benjamin Madu, has reportedly committed suicide in North Shore Massachusetts, United States. He was found dead at his residence on July 2, 2026, days before his R-1 religious worker visa was due to expire. Rev. Fr. Madu served as a priest at St. Ann and Our Lady of Good Voyage churches in […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has called for an independent investigation into the controversy surrounding the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC) scandal. Atiku, in a statement issued on Wednesday by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, also raised fresh questions over an alleged N6.44bn budgetary allocation for Nigeria’s 2026 FIFA […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the final forfeiture of 48 property linked to a former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to the Nigerian Government. The judge, in a judgment delivered in Abuja on Wednesday, held that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had established the […]
Continue ReadingThe Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) were in the media yesterday (Sunday) urging President Bola Tinubu to replicate in the North the feat that rescued the Oriire pupils and teachers in Oyo State. I am with them. Their request is not a northern demand; it is a national obligation. No […]
Continue ReadingNigerian actress, film producer, screenwriter, comperé, TV presenter, OAP, and philanthropist, Aniebiet Francis has shared her opinion on the importance of consent in marriage, saying a woman’s choices and boundaries should be respected during sexual intimacy. She wrote: “As a woman, any s.ex you are not enjoying is s.ex slavery. “When you are emotionally, intellectually […]
Continue ReadingThe family of the 2023 Labour Party’s Lagos State governorship candidate, Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour has announced the death of his mother, Mrs. Nkechi Stella Rhodes-Vivour (née Waboso). Rhodes-Vivour shared the news in a post on X, expressing gratitude for her life while mourning her passing. The family said details of the funeral arrangements will be […]
Continue ReadingThe ongoing conversation on the establishment of state police in Nigeria is essentially a debate on Nigerian federalism. The argument that has mostly obfuscated the understanding and indispensability of federalism to the long term survival and viability of Nigeria is its subordination to the ‘Leadership’ factor. Those who make the argument will tell you that what ails […]
Continue ReadingGovernor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, has called for independent scrutiny of the May 14 abduction of children and teachers from Ahoro-Esinle and Yawota communities in Oriire Local Government Area of the state. The governor made the call in his statewide broadcast on Monday in Ibadan, shortly after he received 44 children and teachers recently […]
Continue ReadingPeter F. Drucker, the Austrian-American management guru (1909 -2005), it was who opined that change is an inevitable constant in human situations and that innovation is important in the 21st Century where skills become obsolete at the speed of light and what was deemed essential yesterday sooner or later becomes irrelevant, requiring new thinking, new […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, in a split decision of two-to-one on Monday, affirmed the judgment restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from recognising or participating in any state congresses organised by committees appointed by the Senator David Mark-led caretaker leadership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). In a lead verdict delivered […]
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