The United Kingdom has officially launched its largest Visa Application Centre (VAC) in Africa, located in Ikeja, Lagos, through its new commercial partner, VFS Global. This marks a significant milestone in strengthening the UK’s visa application services for Nigerian residents. According to the British High Commission, the new VAC, alongside facilities in Abuja and Victoria…
President Bola Tinubu has rejected a proposed N942 billion budget from the National Population Commission (NPC) for the upcoming national housing and population census. Sources familiar with the discussions revealed that Tinubu insisted on cutting costs and suggested using members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) for the exercise. During a meeting at the…
Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has recommended a single term of five years for the presidency in Nigeria. Obi said this when he visited the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, at the government house, Bauchi, on Friday. According to him, a five-year term, which is the practice in South Korea,…
Omoyele Sowore, a Nigerian activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters has alleged that the Federal Government has perfect plans to sentence Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to death. Sowore made this allegation in a post on his Facebook page on Wednesday, November 5, 2025. He said that there is…
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has revealed why President Bola Tinubu appointed former Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, as the minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. According to Akpabio, Wike’s performance as a local government chairman, Chief of Staff to the Rivers State Government, Minister and two-term governor gave him the job. The Senate leader…
The socio-political group supporting the leading aspirant for Ibadan North Federal Constituency, OMO BAO Ladies, has congratulated Dr. Peju Esan on the occasion of her birthday today. In a statement signed by the group’s media office in Ibadan on Wednesday, they praised Dr. Peju Esan for her exceptional leadership in every aspect of her life,…
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, has ordered a clampdown on marketers hoarding or exploiting consumers following the recent surge in the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, popularly known as cooking gas. This was disclosed in a statement signed by the minister’s spokesman, Louis Ibah, on Monday. Recalls that the prices…
The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has challenged the widely held belief that Ile-Ife is the cradle of the Yoruba race. Speaking in a video shared on his Facebook page on Tuesday, the monarch dismissed claims that Yoruba culture originated from Ife. He argued that people were already living in the ancient town before…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, has announced the death of Lt. General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja, Chief of the Army Staff. Lagbaja died at the age of 56. According to a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, he passed away on Tuesday night in…
Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, has stated that Governor Siminalayi Fubara is the cause of the violence recorded in Rivers State following the local government elections. “The governor is the architect of the violence in Rivers State,” he said during an appearance on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Tuesday evening. https://x.com/channelstv/status/1843719495849795714?t=J1OldEicI65EXnVTveFI1Q&s=19 Regarding the burning…