Former First Lady, Aisha Buhari, has opened up on a painful chapter in her marriage to the late President Muhammadu Buhari, revealing how rumours within Aso Rock briefly drove a wedge of fear between them and disrupted his health routine. According to her, false claims circulating inside the Presidential...
Tom Chiahemen
The recent decision of the Supreme Court has prompted deep reflection and widespread concern across the country. The ruling—widely perceived as empowering the President to remove elected leaders at will—has sent shockwaves through the polity and raised serious questions about the future of democracy and federalism in Nigeria. In...
For the third consecutive year, Nigerians are counting down to Christmas without the familiar anxiety of fuel scarcity — a development that supporters of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu say is worth celebrating. With exactly ten days to Christmas, petrol is readily available across the country, selling for under ₦900...
Federal Government, states and local government councils shared a total of ₦1.928 trillion as federation account revenue for November 2025, following approval by the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC). The allocation was endorsed at the December 2025 FAAC meeting held in Abuja, which was chaired by the Minister of...
Nigeria Police Force has announced the resumption of full enforcement of the Tinted Glass Permit policy, citing growing security concerns and the urgent need to protect lives and property across the country. The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, who announced this in a statement issued on Monday,...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to Wednesday’s split judgment of the Supreme Court on the contentious declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State, describing the ruling as a defining moment for Nigeria’s democracy while calling for urgent safeguards to prevent abuse of presidential emergency powers. In...
Nigeria’s inflation rate fell further in November, offering fresh relief to households after years of punishing price increases that triggered a deep cost-of-living crisis. The latest data released on Monday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed that headline inflation moderated to 14.45 per cent in November 2025,...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has restated his administration’s firm resolve to mobilise all military and law enforcement assets to crush security threats and protect the lives all citizens of Nigeria. Accordingly, he announced the procurement of mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles and a new armoured fleet for the military, as well...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC,) on Monday, December 15, 2025, opposed moves by a former Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige to secure bail after being arraigned before Justice M.A. Hassan of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Gwarimpa Abuja. Prosecution counsel, Sylvanus Tahir, SAN, told...
Borno State Police Command, under the leadership of the CP Naziru Abdulmajid, has recorded another operational success with the recovery of an Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) in Maiduguri, thereby averting a potential explosion and threat to public safety. Police Public Relations Officer, Borno State Police Command, ASP Nahum Daso, announced...
REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU, GCFR AT THE LAUNCH OF THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE LATE PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARIMONDAY, OCTOBER 15TH, 2025 “The coalition we built in 2014 is now the fastest-growing political party in Africa today. Its growth continues”. President Tinubu It is my profound honour...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has pushed back strongly against what it described as a wave of “deliberate misrepresentation” of its work, insisting that its mandate is firmly rooted in law and has nothing to do with targeting opposition politicians. In a statement issued via its official X...
Troops of Joint Task Force Operation ENDURING PEACE (JTF OPEP) during the conduct of ongoing Operation PEACE SHIELD have continued to record significant operational successes against criminal elements across Kaduna and Plateau States, neutralising kidnappers, rescuing abducted victims, and foiling attempted attacks in a series of coordinated operations conducted...
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and France’s Direction Générale des Finances Publiques (DGFiP) recently, has triggered intense public debate, not because tax cooperation is unusual, but because taxation sits at the very heart of state power. The MoU signed on December...
Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has moved to reinforce discipline on Nigerian roads with an order to prosecute popular TikTok streamer Habeeb Hamzat, widely known as Peller, following a road crash linked to distracted driving. The directive was issued by the Corps Marshal, Shehu Mohammed, after a video circulated...
There are hardly any economic indices in Nigeria today that have not improved since President Tinubu assumed office on Monday, May 29, 2023. Below, I have listed ten, just in case you are misled by disgruntled politicians into thinking you are worse off today than you were in 2023....
Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau Jibrin, has commended security operatives for rescuing three of the five persons kidnapped in Zurin Mahauta village in Lakwaya town, Gwarzo LGA of Kano State, by bandits on Sunday night. Bandits suspected to be from neighbouring states had stormed the village last...
In recent days, an avalanche of sensational allegations has been deliberately rehashed against Hon. Oboku Abonsizibe Oforji, Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Basic Examination Bodies. Carefully choreographed, emotionally charged, and aggressively circulated, these claims are not the product of investigative rigour or civic concern. Rather, they...