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Bosun Tijani, the Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, has once again found himself explaining why governance is far more complicated than campaign rhetoric and social media bravado suggest.   Speaking recently, Tijani claimed that bandits operating across parts of the country rely on “a special kind of technology” to make calls and evade […]

The DoorDash worker seen on surveillance video allegedly spraying a substance on a food order she delivered is in police custody. Her reason for spraying the bag? She claims that she was spraying at a spider. According to a news release by the McCracken County Sheriff’s Office, Kourtney Stevenson has been arrested. She is facing charges of two […]

Nigeria is short of policemen, short of patience and short of trust. What it is not short of, it turns out, is armed escorts for the President’s son. When Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s tireless moral witness stepped out of a Lagos hotel to find a small infantry unit bristling with rifles, he assumed he had wandered […]

  Culled From From aso.rocks can authoritatively report that the state oil company, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), is in the final stages of sealing a $4.7 billion crude-for-loan agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Aramco; a landmark transaction that would rank as the company’s largest oil-backed financing deal to date, according to officials familiar […]

In an era when Africa is too often described by its deficits, Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has chosen to define the continent by its possibilities. Few private citizens have so deliberately aligned personal ambition with continental destiny. Fewer still have pursued that alignment with the scale, patience and audacity that Dangote has brought […]

President of the Dangote Industries Limited, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has launched a fresh offensive against the regulator, the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), insisting the leadership of the authority is sabotaging efforts at boosting local refining.   At a press conference on Sunday, at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, he said imports were […]

Yesterday, December 15, the Supreme Court of Nigeria struck out the suit filed by 11 Governors of states controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenging the emergency rule imposed on Rivers State by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on March 18, 2025. The suit: AG Adamawa & 10 Ors vs. AG Federation and the National […]

From last week continues the narrative on the emergence of Dr Moses Majekodunmi as administrator of Western Nigeria following the declaration of emergency rule. It also highlights the emergence and various roles played by Oba Akinyele, Oba Akenzua and Oba Aderele. This came to a head when Alhaji Chief Dauda Soroye Adegbenro (1909-1975), the Balogun of […]

When Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka stepped out of a high-profile hotel in Lagos last week, he was greeted by an outlandish sight. Lined up like a presidential guard were no fewer than 15 heavily-armed police officers and other security agents, complete with rifles, bulletproof vests, and the unmistakable swagger of state agents protecting an untouchable […]

The African continent, long a theatre of political experimentation and turbulence, has in recent years witnessed a dramatic resurgence of military interventions in governance. Since 2020, at least nine states across West and Central Africa have succumbed to coups d’état or serious attempts: Mali, Chad, Guinea, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Niger, Gabon, Madagascar, and Guinea‑Bissau – […]

  The declaration last Friday by Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda, that the peace deal entered into with bandits has yielded positive results in councils that were affected by insecurity, is a damning surrender to criminality; a confession of state failure, and an open declaration that the Nigerian government no longer believes in justice, deterrence, […]

Nigeria is a nation fond of grand slogans. “Renewed Hope” is the latest. Yet for millions of Nigerian women and girls, hope ends at home. New data suggest that the living room, not the battlefield or the back alley, has become the country’s most reliable site of violence. Three in four cases of gender-based violence […]