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The Management of the Green Legacy hotel, an arm of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, has threatened legal action against the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), following the “invasion” of the hotel by EFCC operatives on Sunday.   In a statement, the hotel’s Managing Director, Vitalis Ortese, said about 50 armed men from the […]

  Once again, the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has shown itself to be a sanctimonious and impervious custodian of mediocrity and an unapologetic persecutor of truth. In a profoundly petty act of despotic brigandage, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), that perennial errand boy of executive overreach and lawlessness, has banned Eedris Abdulkareem’s latest […]

Nigeria’s passport has inched its way up the global mobility ladder, climbing to 88th place in the 2025 Henley Passport Index released this month. The HPI ranks 199 passports against 227 travel destinations; based on the number of destinations a passport holder can access without a visa. The data used comes from the International Air […]

In 2021, Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission published its “INEC Strategic Plan 2022-2026,” the third of the commission’s such plans since 1999.   Introducing it, commission chairman Mahmoud Yakubu described the objective as being “deepening electoral integrity.”   “Recognizing the central role that free, fair and credible elections play in democratic consolidation, the Strategic Planning […]

Refineries in India are buying Nigerian crude while the country’s Dangote Petroleum Refinery is largely running on American oil, The PUNCH reports.   In a twist that underscores the complexities of global oil trade, India’s state refiners are snapping up Nigerian crude oil while Africa’s largest refinery, located in Nigeria, is increasingly importing crude from […]

In less than two weeks, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration has been twice lucky with female sports. The Super Falcons won the Women African Football Cup of Nations (WAFCON) title for a record 10th time in Morocco on July 25. While the country was still trying to fully digest the euphoria of that victory, and […]

  There is no eloquence left for this shame. Only rage. Cold, righteous rage. Nigeria, the self-proclaimed “Giant of Africa,” has become a tomb of innocence. A nation where childhood is buried beneath the rubble of government apathy, where futures are starved in daylight, and where the state – bloated with rhetoric and corruption – […]

  President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is said to be “incandescent with rage” following reports that Jupiter Lithium Limited, a British mining firm, has formally made known its intention to initiate arbitration proceedings against the Nigerian government over the abrupt cancellation of its lithium mining permits in Kaduna State. The Tinubu administration has not provided any […]

  The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has denied reports (not by Channels Television) that he forced the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Bayo Ojulari, to resign.    In a statement on Wednesday by EFCC spokesman Dele Oyewale, Olukoyede faulted a report by […]

    The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has directed the Nigeria Civil Aviation Agency to place Fuji musician, Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, better known as K1 De Ultimate, on a no-fly list.   Keyamo, who announced this in a post on his X handle on Thursday, said the artiste would be on […]

There is a stench rising from Nigeria’s political elite, and it is the rancid odor of cowardice masquerading as patriotism. Their unrelenting obsession with British Conservative Leader, Kemi Badenoch has descended into full-blown hysteria, a grotesque spectacle that reveals far more about them than it ever could about her. This is not patriotism. This is […]

“When the stomach aches, fine clothes can’t hide the pain.” This Yoruba proverb resonates loudly across today’s Nigeria – a country grappling with poverty, economic despair, and deep systemic dysfunction. And yet, amid this reality, President Bola Tinubu’s administration has rolled out a golden carpet of rewards to the Super Falcons for their remarkable victory […]