A covert intelligence operation coordinated by the Army Headquarters and the State Security Service (SSS), helped thwart a deadly plot to overthrow President Bola Tinubu’s government and assassinate key political figures, PREMIUM TIMES has authoritatively reported. Multiple senior administration insiders said the plot began to unravel in late September...
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Move by the Federal Government to revisit the dispute over oil wells between Akwa Ibom and Cross River States has sparked fears and apprehension as the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) announced plans to begin the “plotting of coordinates of the disputed and newly drilled oil and...
Kaduna State Police Command has arrested seven suspected bandits and recovered five firearms with live ammunition in separate intelligence-led operations across the state. In a press statement issued in kaduna by the Command’s spokesman, DSP Mansir Hassan, said the arrests were part of its sustained crackdown on banditry and...
Taraba State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Child Development, Mary Sinjen has debunked allegations raised by a social media activist, Abdulmumin Iman that the ministry has released N1 billion on consultancy. Sinjen said Iman has misplaced information about the ministry’s functions by connecting funds approvals of Nigeria For Women...
As a part of ongoing efforts to reposition Nigeria’s gas sector as the engine room of national industrialisation, energy security, and sustainable economic growth, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) has officially unveiled its Gas Master Plan (GMP) 2026, tagged NGMP 2026. This was disclosed in a...
Following the promise of rebuilding about two years after the community was hit by an accident bomb from military drones, the Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima @officialSKSM, has commissioned the Tudun Biri Resettlement Scheme, with about 133 completed housing units, educational facilities and other state-of-the-art infrastructure. Senator Shettima had...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Lagos Zonal Directorate 2, on Friday, January 30, 2026, arraigned an alleged serial fraudster, Titilayo Funmilayo Eboh, for an alleged N247, 500,000 (Two Hundred and Forty-seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Naira) fraud before Justice Ramon Oshodi of the State High Court sitting in...
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN), has downplayed the impact of the recent judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, insisting that the ruling poses no threat to the party’s ongoing “rebirth” process. Turaki made this known on Friday...
Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, has nullified the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Convention held in the city in November 2025, effectively dissolving the National Working Committee (NWC) that emerged from the exercise. Justice Uche Agomoh, in a judgment delivered on Friday, ruled that the convention...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has issued a stern warning to the Rivers State Government over what he described as the denial of access to the Yakubu Gowon Stadium, Port Harcourt, for a political rally by the Renewed Hope Ambassadors. Wike, a former governor of...
Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State has launched Operation TSAFTA, an environmental sanitation initiative designed to strengthen waste management while creating jobs for 5,000 youths and women across the state. The Governor, who spoke at the official launch of the programme, disclosed that an additional 7,000 jobs would be...
Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani has commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for selecting Tudun Biri village as the first beneficiary of the Federal Government’s Resettlement Scheme for Persons Impacted by Conflicts, following the accidental airstrike that claimed innocent lives in December 2023. The governor, who spoke on Friday at...
Borno State APC e-registration and reconciliation committee has shifted into high gear, demanding that political heavyweights—including Senators and House of Representatives members—take direct responsibility for the party’s digital enrollment within their constituencies. Committee Chairman, Ambassador Baba Ahmed Jidda, on Friday emphasized that with the exercise nearing its conclusion, the...
Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume (Borno South) has commiserated with Troops of Theatre Command North East Joint Task Force ‘Operation Hadin Kai’ (OPHK), members of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), and families of those killed during encounter with Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists in Sabon Gari village. He also extend his...
*My Justification: Mike Ozekhome, SAN, Represents Peace, Justice, and the Voice for the Voiceless in Nigeria.* For over four decades, Chief Mike Agbedor Abu Ozekhome, SAN, has stood as one of Nigeria’s most fearless defenders of the oppressed, the marginalized, and the constitution itself. His name is inseparable from...
Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN Human rights activism has never been a gentleman’s pastime. It is, by its very nature, an inconvenient vocation, one that unsettles power, interrogates authority, and stubbornly refuses to genuflect when the State elects impunity over justice. Across jurisdictions and generations,...
Armed Forces of Nigeria have recorded significant operational successes across the country in January 2026, neutralising scores of terrorists, arresting 452 suspected criminals and rescuing no fewer than 284 kidnapped victims, the Defence Headquarters has said. Speaking at a media briefing in Abuja on January 30, 2026, the Director...
705 refugees (85 households) from Minawao Refugee Camp, Cameroon, arrived in Banki town in Bama LGA of Borno State on Thursday evening. According to the Chairman, Borno State Repatriation and Resettlement Committee on IDPs from Cameroon Republic, Hon. Engr. Lawan Abba Wakilbe, they were bid farewell by Governor Minjinyawa...
At least 17 people have died following a renewed outbreak of Lassa fever in eight states of the country, raising fresh concerns among public health authorities as Nigeria enters the peak season for the viral disease. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) confirmed the deaths in...
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has appealed to the Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, to reconsider the closure of the Onitsha Main Market, citing the severe economic hardship being faced by traders and their families. The appeal was made by the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Senator John Azuta-Mbata, in a...