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A Canada-based travel agent, Damilare Matthew Kolawole, is insisting that the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) retract an investigative report exposing his business practices before he begins refunding 120,635 Canadian dollars (roughly N132 million) belonging to aggrieved visa seekers. This condition was disclosed by Ayo Ladipo (pseudonym), another travel consultant residing in Canada who referred […]

Relatives of Deborah Okwori, an interior designer who was violently killed in her Lagos apartment on September 3, 2025, are demanding that her self-confessed assailant, Lintex Ogale, face a full capital murder trial rather than receive a lenient sentence. Ogale, who was apprehended at the crime scene within Dele Adedugbe Estate, has remained in detention. […]

Tobic General Merchants, an enterprise where high-ranking Lagos State parliamentarian Tobun Abiodun holds a 90 percent equity stake, clinched two lucrative state government contracts valued at N114.85 million over a six-week stretch in late 2025. Both awarding authorities—the Ministry of Commerce, Cooperatives, Trade and Investment, alongside the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure—fall squarely within the […]

Six years have passed since a massive wave of youth-led demonstrations swept across Nigeria under the EndSARS banner, demanding an end to arbitrary arrests, violent abuses, and corrupt extortion by the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). Triggered on October 8, 2020, following viral footage of an apparent summary execution by rogue operatives in Delta State, […]

Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, has sparked controversy on social media after directing a harsh Yoruba insult at an online critic and subsequently blocking another user who questioned a government telecommunications initiative. The incident began following a video Tijani published on X detailing the Nigeria Universal Communication Access Project (NUCAP). […]

Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, who previously served as the governor of Delta State, has passed away at the age of 71. According to a relative who spoke with Channels Television, the former leader died on Monday morning, October 19, 2026, at a medical facility in Abuja following a battle with illness. Relatives have expressed profound grief […]

Sweeping policy adjustments spearheaded by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Olayemi Cardoso have revitalized the nation’s currency market, significantly expanded foreign exchange buffers, and enhanced the stability of financial institutions, according to Ayobami Oyalowo, Executive Director of Finance and Administration at the Ogun-Oshun River Basin Authority. Reviewing Cardoso’s initial three years at the helm, […]

Mike Igini, a former Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has warned that partisan figures systematically tamper with rosters of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members enlisted for election duties to swing voting outcomes. Speaking on ARISE NEWS, Igini described a scheme where political actors bypass standard procedures by inserting […]

Prior to late 2020, Matthew Ifeanyi Agbeze was focused on building his career as an entertainer and digital content creator under the pseudonym ‘Precious Stone.’ Through his digital channels, he produced sketches and videos, looking ahead to a bright future in the creative industry. That reality abruptly fractured on October 20, 2020, leaving him bearing […]