The House of Representatives has approved President Bola Tinubu’s request to secure a $2.35 billion loan to help finance the 2025 budget deficit, despite growing concerns over Nigeria’s rising debt profile. The House also granted approval for the issuance of a $500 million sovereign sukuk on the international capital market to support infrastructure development and…
President Bola Tinubu has ordered the removal of persons convicted for kidnapping, drug trafficking, human trafficking, fraud, and unlawful possession of firearms from the list of beneficiaries under the federal government’s prerogative of mercy. A statement on Wednesday by Bayo Onanuga, special adviser to the president on information and strategy, said Tinubu took the decision…
Fiery Plateau State clergy, Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo has narrated how Fulani bandits stormed a hospital in a community in the state, kidnapped Christian girls who they took into some rocky area and gang-raped them at gunpoint over eight hours before they were released. In a video he posted on his Facebook page on Wednesday, Rev….
Police in Bangkok have arrested eight Nigerian men and a Thai woman after disguising themselves as construction workers during a late-night drug bust in the city’s Nana area. The operation took place around midnight on Sukhumvit 11 Road in Watthana district following complaints from residents and tourists about drug peddlers and pickpockets harassing people in…
At least 43 Fulani herders have been killed in a series of coordinated attacks by suspected vigilante groups across parts of Kebbi and Niger States, according to community sources and local leaders. According to Zagazola Makama, a counter insurgency reporter, the attack occurred between Oct. 24 and 26, affected several rural settlements in Argungu, Arewa,…
All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced that at least four sitting governors from opposition parties are in “advanced talks” to join the ruling party before the end of 2025, a move the party believes will cement its dominance ahead of the 2027 general elections. Dr. Ijeoma Arodiogbu, APC’s National Vice Chairman (South-East), disclosed this in…
The United States President, Donald Trump, has defended Israel’s renewed strikes in Gaza, saying the country has the right to respond to attacks on its soldiers. “As I understand it, they took out an Israeli soldier,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Wednesday as quoted by RT. “They killed an Israeli soldier. So…
A 42-year-old man, identified as Emmanuel Egbosimba, has been arraigned before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly repeatedly defiling his now 19-year-old biological daughter over a period of five years. According to the Police Prosecutor, ASP Adegoke Ademigbuji, the disturbing act began in 2020, when the victim was just 14 years old, and continued…
The Department of State Services, DSS, has arrested one Innocent Chukwuma for allegedly using his social media handle to canvas for military rule in Nigeria. A popular security expert, Zagazola Makama, disclosed this on Wednesday on his official X handle. According to him, the suspect was trailed to Oyigbo, Port Harcourt, Rivers State where he…
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, explained on Tuesday that he shunned an invitation by the US embassy for a visa re-interview in September because he was not comfortable with the September 11 date fixed for the exercise. September 11 became a symbolic date in the US after the September 11, 2001, devastating terror attack on…