The House of Representatives Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution announced on Thursday that it has received 31 proposals for the creation of new states across the six geopolitical zones. Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu read a letter from the committee during plenary, outlining the conditions that must be met before any state creation…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has dismantled another major cocaine trafficking network in Lagos with the arrest of a female drug kingpin who hid 23.50 kilograms of cocaine inside her children’s room, barely twenty months after a related cartel was crushed in the South-West. In a statement on Sunday by the Agency’s Director…
President Bola Tinubu says he is erecting a solid economic foundation for Nigerians. Presenting his scorecard on the anniversary of the country’s independence, the president said he “inherited a near-collapsed economy caused by decades of fiscal policy distortions and misalignment that had impaired real growth”. The president said the nation’s currency is stronger, the stock…
Honourable Asefon Sunday, the Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Students Engagement has condemned a press conference undermining the just concluded All Progressive Congress (APC) consensus primary election. In a press release sighted by GISTSMATE MEDIA, Asefon said some non-indigenes of the state are behind the purported press release discrediting the election which…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has officially expelled former Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, from the party over allegations of anti-party activities. Aregbesola, who governed Osun State for eight years, had formed a faction within the APC known as The Osun Progressives (TOP), now rebranded as the Omoluabi Caucus. The group was accused of contributing…
Out of 108 elected Senators (excluding the late Senator Ifeanyi Uba), only four are women. The remaining 104 Senators in Nigeria are men. Female Senators constitute approximately four percent of the entire 10th Senate. Political watchers have lamented the gross under representation of women in parliament. In the 9th National Assembly, there were eight female…
The Independent Petroleum Marketers of Nigeria has said that the price war between the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and Dangote Petroleum is affecting its members. The Chairman, IPMAN, Enugu Depot Community in charge of Anambra, Ebonyi and Enugu states, Mr Chinedu Anyaso, stated this during an interview with journalists in Awka, Anambra State, on…
The federal government through the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has warned Point of Sale (POS) operators in the Fintech sector and threatened to shut down those who fail to register their businesses. The CAC in a statement on Friday noted that the 60-day deadline for registration, which expired on September 5, 2024, has not been…
Despite widespread economic hardship and soaring inflation across the country, the Federal Government has allocated N5bn towards the renovation of the vice president’s official residence in Lagos State. In the N2.17tn supplementary budget passed in November 2023, the Federal Government had budgeted N3bn for the renovation of the vice president’s official residence in Lagos State…
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), a humanitarian health organisation, has raised the alarm that Northern Nigeria is currently facing an alarming malnutrition crisis, which has claimed the lives of 652 children within the first seven months of 2025 — a development that requires urgent mobilisation to tackle. MSF, in a statement released to journalists…
