Sequel to the complaint received from the Local Government Chairmen, in Osun State, by the Osun State Attorney General that unauthorized accounts have been opened for the Osun state LGs allocation, so as to allow the authorized persons to operate and maintain the accounts, in the United Bank for...
By OLA MODUPE, Osogbo
The Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, January 26, 2026 arraigned one Ndubuisi Iheukwumere John before Justice Agbaje Olufunmilola Adetutu of the Federal High Court, sitting in Asaba, Delta State for fraud. He was arraigned on a two-count charge, bordering on advance...
National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has extend the electronic membership registration exercise from 31st January 2026 to 8th February 2026, following requests from Party stakeholders. National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, announced this in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja. Mr....
Senate has set March 17, 2026, as the tentative date for the final consideration and passage of the ₦58.472 trillion 2026 budget. The timeline was disclosed by the Senate Committee on Appropriations after a special session held on Friday, during which February 2 to 13, 2026, was approved for...
In a well-coordinated dawn attack on 28 January 2026, troops of Sector 1 Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) conducted successful night dawn surprise operations at Bula Dalo, where they neutralized over 12 terrorists, compelling the remnants to flee in disarray. Media Information Officer, Headquarters Joint Task Force North East Operation...
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...
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...