A senior lecturer at the Department of Architecture, Modibbo Adama University (MAU) Adamawa, Arch. Bala Baba, has traced the causes of massive collapsed of buildings in Nigeria to quacks handling those projects. Baba, who is also the Adamawa State Chairman of Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA) chapter told NATIONAL...
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Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has urged African countries to stop positioning themselves as dependants on a shrinking pool of foreign aid, insisting that the continent must instead present itself as a major destination for global investment and trade. Okonjo-Iweala made the call on...
Abuja — The Federal Government of Nigeria, working with global and local partners, has intensified efforts to strengthen translational research across Africa, emphasising that the continent must urgently shift from being a source of extracted data to a driver of scientific innovation, health solutions and economic growth. The call...
Africa’s future is too often discussed in the abstract, as if it were a distant promise. In truth, the continent’s youth are already powerful force— dynamic, restless, and actively shaping realities on the ground. The central question is no longer whether Africa’s youth will influence the continent’s trajectory, but...
Nigerian international Ademola Lookman has landed in Madrid as he edges closer to completing a move to Spanish giants Atlético Madrid. The forward is in the Spanish capital to undergo routine medical examinations ahead of the proposed transfer. Sources close to the deal indicate that Atlético Madrid have already...
South African pop sensation Tyla has emerged winner of the Best African Music Performance category at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards, held on February 1, 2026, at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, once again outshining Nigerian stars Davido, Burna Boy and Ayra Starr in a fiercely competitive field....
Afrobeat icon, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti has been posthumously honoured with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, nearly 30 years after his death, in a landmark moment for African music and global culture. The honour was bestowed on Saturday, January 31, 2026, during the Recording Academy’s Special Merit Awards ceremony held at...
Human rights activist and former presidential candidate of African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has faulted President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent comments on Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, describing them as hypocritical and detached from the musician’s lifelong resistance to state power. Reacting via his verified X (formerly Twitter) handle,...
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...
*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,...
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...
The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima @officialSKSM, has said the ongoing reforms of the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT are beginning to restore the confidence of the global community in Nigeria. This, he said, explains why persons from foreign countries now choose to participate in professional courses...
Former Presidential aide, Reno Omokri has explained why former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore cannot lawfully rely on his past statements to justify calling President Bola Ahmed Tinubu a drug baron, insisting that those remarks were long withdrawn after being found to be false. Omokri made this known in a...
Senate to hold briefing on US air strikes as Ningi kicks over alleged exclusion of National Assembly
Senate to hold briefing on US air strikes as Ningi kicks over alleged exclusion of National Assembly
Senate has announced plans to hold an executive briefing on the United States air strikes carried out on December 25 against terrorist targets in Sokoto State, following concerns raised by Senator Abdul Ningi over the alleged exclusion of the National Assembly from prior discussions. The issue was brought to...
Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has taken a swipe at President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over Nigeria’s worsening electricity crisis, reminding Nigerians of a campaign promise the President made ahead of the 2023 general election. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Obi recalled Tinubu’s 2022 pledge that...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has expressed deep sorrow over the death of Sunday Ndidi, father of Super Eagles captain and Besiktas midfielder, Wilfred Ndidi. Sunday Ndidi reportedly died in a fatal road accident on Tuesday in Umunede, near Agbor, Delta State, plunging his family and the Nigerian football community...
First batch of 300 Nigerian refugees has returned to Gwoza in Borno State, marking the commencement of the fourth phase of a sustained repatriation exercise. The returnees, comprising 75 households, arrived in Pulka, Gwoza Local Government in a coordinated and dignified homecoming. The journey for the families represented not...
Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has raised concerns over what he described as a troubling absence of genuine loyalty among Nigeria’s political elite, warning that self-interest has continued to undermine national progress. Obi made the remarks on Tuesday in Abuja while attending the book launch of “The...