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In a major strategic pivot, President Bola Tinubu has reportedly directed Nigeria’s top intelligence chief, Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Adeola Ajayi, to shift the country’s defense procurement away from Russia and aggressively court Western arms suppliers -particularly from the United States and Europe. The proposed shift toward US arms manufacturers marks […]

In a continent of staggering beauty and boundless potential, Africa’s wealth lies buried beneath mountains of exploitation, misgovernance, and entrenched inequality. In recent years, a cruel paradox has deepened: while luxury towers rise in Johannesburg and private jets idle in Lagos hangars, nearly half of Africa’s 750 million people struggle to feed themselves, educate their […]

Once again, the Nigerian Senate has demonstrated that power, when wielded with impunity, becomes indistinguishable from tyranny. With the recent court ruling invalidating the six-month suspension of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the upper chamber of our legislature has earned fresh notoriety, not as defenders of democracy, but as architects of abuse, overreach, and constitutional contempt. Justice […]

President Bola Tinubu has issued a sharp rebuke to US President Donald Trump and his administration, declaring that Nigeria will not yield to intimidation or “strong-arm diplomacy.” This comes in the wake of a controversial migration repatriation deal presented by Washington, which Tinubu swiftly rejected, sparking a new wave of diplomatic tensions and signaling a […]

In what may be the most consequential political move of the post-2023 era, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has formally resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), severing ties with the political house he helped build from the ground up. At 78, and with a long legacy in Nigeria’s democratic evolution, Atiku’s decision comes not […]

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has resigned his membership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) with immediate effect.   In a letter dated July 14, 2025, and addressed to the Chairman PDP, Jada 1 Ward Jada LGA Adamawa State, Atiku said his resignation is due to irreconcilable differences that have emerged in the former ruling […]

In a move sending ripples across Nigeria’s political landscape, multiple high-ranking sources within the ruling All-Progressives Congress (APC) have confirmed to Searchng.ng nigerian search engine that President Bola Tinubu is actively reviewing a list of potential running mates for the 2027 general elections – a development that casts fresh uncertainty over the future of Vice […]

The Presidency has revealed two reasons why the United States reduced visa validity for Nigerians.   Recently, the US government announced that it would give three-month single-entry visas to Nigerian applicants instead of the five-year multiple-entry visa that was the norm. Although the US embassy in Nigeria initially said its decision was based on reciprocity, […]

In the quiet corridors of a private London clinic, Muhammadu Buhari; soldier, statesman, austere figure of Nigerian history, took his final breath. Aged 82, he departed this world as he had lived much of his public life: without flourish, without noise, yet leaving behind a landscape forever altered by his shadow. Buhari’s death on Sunday […]

Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda, has announced the burial arrangements for Nigeria’s former President, Muhammadu Buhari, who passed away on Sunday, July 13, 2025, in a hospital in London.   At a press briefing on Monday, the Katsina governor said following consultations with the late president’s family and close associates in London, it has been […]

Muhammadu Buhari was the rarest of individuals to grace political life anywhere in the world: an incorruptible servant of the people. He was not motivated by pride, or by riches, the accumulation of which repelled him. He was drawn to public service, discipline, and patriotism, and the unity of Nigeria as a one nation and […]

When I joined the State House Press Corps in November 2015—six months into President Muhammadu Buhari’s first term—it felt like history was being written in real time. He had swept into office with a tidal wave of expectations, buoyed by promises of change, anti-corruption, and discipline. For many in my newsroom at LEADERSHIP, his victory […]