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A major shake up is looming in President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet as no fewer than nine serving ministers are preparing to resign ahead of the 2027 general elections, following the President’s directive that all political appointees with electoral ambitions must step down on or before March 31, 2026. The development, confirmed by senior government and […]

The forthcoming national convention of the All Progressives Congress is, on paper, an administrative ritual. In practice, it is something closer to a controlled experiment in elite management; part theatre, part negotiation, and part quiet coronation. What emerges from it will say less about the ruling party’s constitution than about its true constitution: the distribution […]

The convention will allow APC members to choose national executives who will pilot the affairs of the party ahead of the 2027 general elections.   No fewer than 8,433 delegates are expected to participate in the 2026 national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at Eagle Square, Abuja.    The Minister of Information and […]

President Bola Tinubu returned to Nigeria on Monday to a growing storm of criticism after his lavishly choreographed state visit to the United Kingdom delivered little for the country’s struggling economy and saddled it with a controversial £746m port rehabilitation deal that overwhelmingly benefits British industry. Tinubu’s two day visit, the first by a Nigerian […]

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has denied allegations that its officers opened fire on members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) during a violent takeover of the union’s national secretariat in Abuja, even as it confirmed the arrest of seven suspects, including former NURTW president Tajudeen Ibikunle Baruwa   In […]

Tension erupted into high drama inside a Baltimore County, Maryland courtroom in the United States as blogger Funke Ashekun and her husband reportedly collapsed on separate days following a crushing defamation verdict in favor of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries and its General Overseer, Daniel Kolawole Olukoya.   A jury at the Baltimore County […]

Former Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir El Rufai will be arraigned in court on Tuesday after spending more than 35 days in the custody of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), the agency announced on Monday. El Rufai, who was arrested on February 18 shortly after being released by the Economic […]

The leadership crisis rocking the National Union of Road Transport Workers took a dramatic turn as Tajudeen Baruwa assumed control of the union’s national secretariat in Abuja, dislodging Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, following a series of court rulings that reshaped the union’s power structure.   Speaking to journalists at the secretariat after […]

Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja has convicted and sentenced a  former acting Accountant-General of the Federation, Chukwunyere Nwabuoku, to a 72-year jail term without an option of fine.   Delivering Judgment, Justice Omotosho held that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had been able to prove the nine-count money […]

Nigeria’s anti corruption watchdog has imposed a $126 million fine on TotalEnergies for allegedly violating expatriate worker quotas, igniting a legal and political confrontation that now threatens to overshadow President Bola Tinubu’s efforts to restore stability and credibility to the country’s troubled oil sector. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) accuses […]

  Italian energy giant ENI is preparing to launch an accelerated investment programme for the former OPL 245 deepwater fields after signing a sweeping settlement agreement with the Nigerian government that ends more than a decade of legal warfare and arbitration. The deal, finalized earlier this month, has dissolved the ICSID case that once threatened […]

Politics in Kano has always been a contact sport disguised as ideology. The defection of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf from the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is therefore less a moral tragedy than a familiar ritual: the periodic shedding of political skins in pursuit of survival. Yet the […]