African Democratic Congress (ADC) has raised the alarm over reports that civil servants across several states are being coerced to register for the APC’s ongoing e-registration exercise, allegedly under pressure from the party’s national leadership. National Publicity Secretary of the ADC, Bolaji Abdullahi, in a statement on Sunday, described...
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The 12th Prosecution Witness, PW12, David Oyesina Jaiyeoba in the trial of former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN’s) governor, Godwin Emefiele, on Friday, January 30, 2026, told the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Abuja, presided over by Justice Hamza Muazu that the sum of $2,045,000 (Two Million, Forty...
Former Vice President Peter Obi has commended Governor Seyi Makinde for his leadership and commitment to public service during the 50th anniversary thanksgiving of Oyo State, held at the Cathedral of St Peter Anglican Church, Aremo, Ibadan. In a post on his X handle, Obi reflected on his long-standing...
Agwatashi (Olosoho) community in Obi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, has called on the authority of the Nigerian Army, to remove its name from the news that has gone viral that an illegal armed factory has been discovered in the community. The community made its position known in...
Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has reaffirmed its commitment to technology-driven border management and international cooperation. The commitment was made during the 2026 World Customs Organisation (WCO) Technology Conference and Exhibition which started on Wednesday, 28 January 2026, at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) in the United Arab...
Renewed Hope Interfaith Movement has launched the Benue State Chapter of the Interfaith Inclusion Project, aiming to support the Tinubu/Alia 2027 election bid. Performing the ceremony at the Pauline Makka Centre in Makurdi, the Director General of the project, Hon. King Samuel who inaugurated the Benue State Director of...
A Cameroon lawmaker, Manghe Romeo Etta, has dragged the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to court over alleged fundamental rights abuse. Etta, is seeking N200m damages for violation of his fundamental rights. Etta a youth Senator representing Manyu Division at the National Assembly of te Republic of Cameroon According to...
Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has urged Nigerian youths to seize the opportunities created by ongoing national reforms, describing them as critical pathways for personal growth and nation-building. The Minister stated this while delivering the 2026 Convocation Lecture at the 34th Convocation Ceremony of the Federal...
The newly elected Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State has reaffirmed its total and unflinching loyalty to the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) under the leadership of Barrister Kabiru Turaki. In a statement issued on Friday, the Lagos PDP Exco-elect declared its full alignment...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has pledged a stronger development partnership with Taraba State following the formal entry of Governor Agbu Kefas and his supporters into the All Progressives Congress (APC). This is just as Vice President Kashim Shettima has said that the state is pivotal to Nigeria’s food and...
Senior lawmakers and development stakeholders on Saturday called for an urgent, coordinated economic rescue of the North West, warning that decades of fragmented development efforts have deepened poverty, insecurity and underdevelopment in the region. The call was made at the North West Development Summit held at the Yar’Adua Conference...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) on Friday received a suspected operator of a fake crypto-currency investment platform, Polyfarm. The suspect, Bamu Gift Wandji was arrested by the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Gwagwalada on January 12, 2026, for running a fraudulent investment scheme and was...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...