The Presidency has said there has been no change in the position of Senator George Akume as Secretary to the Government of the Federation. “There has been no change in the status of His Excellency, Senator George Akume, as Secretary to the Government of the Federation,” Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy,…
Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, a Nigerian born UK-based lawyer and women’s right activist, says Kemi Badenoch, Conservative Party leader, has “pressed her self-destruct button” with her repeated denigration of Nigeria. Recently on the Rosebud Podcast, Badenoch made headlines when she stated she had not renewed her Nigerian passport in over 20 years. She said she no longer…
The Kano State Government has filed a lawsuit against former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, two of his sons, and several others before the State High Court over an alleged N4.49 billion fraud. The suit seeks to recover the state’s 20 per cent equity stake in Dala Inland Dry Port Limited and to reclaim public funds totalling…
The Department of State Services (DSS) has filed multiple terrorism charges against two commanders of the Ansaru terrorist group, an Al-Qaeda-linked group. According to NTA, Mahmud Usman (aka Abu Bara’a/Abbas/Mukhtar), the self-styled Emir of Ansaru; and Mahmud al-Nigeri (aka Malam Mamuda), Bara’s deputy and chief of staff, who were recently arrested during operations by security…
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has arrived the Force Headquarters at the Federal Capital Territory to honour a police invitation. Ajaero was accompanied by human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), human rights activist and lawyer, Deji Adeyanju and a group of workers. The police had invited the NLC leader over…
Seyi Tinubu, son of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has expressed outrage over the leak of his father’s speech online minutes before it was delivered to the nation. The speech, which addressed the ongoing protests against the government’s leadership, was meant to be a live broadcast, but copies of it were released online beforehand. Seyi Tinubu…
A member of the United States House of Representatives, Riley Moore, has called on the Nigerian government to pardon a farmer, Sunday Jackson, who was sentenced to death for killing a herdsman during a 2015 confrontation in Adamawa State. Speaking on Thursday during a US House hearing on President Donald Trump’s redesignation of Nigeria as…
No fewer than 349 lives have been lost in various disasters that occurred between September 2024 and May 2025 across Niger State. The disasters include two tanker explosions, dynamite explosions, flood disasters, and bandits’ attacks. The Director General, State Emergency Management Agency, Abdullahi Baba Arah, made this known on Tuesday while briefing journalists on the…
Lomond School, a Scottish boarding school, located in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute has become the first private school in the United Kingdom to allow parents to pay school fees using Bitcoin cryptocurrency. The school’s management says it will begin accepting Bitcoin payments for tuition starting from the autumn term. According to the BBC, Lomond’s annual…
A South African court on Thursday sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her six-year-old daughter, in a case that horrified the country. Joshlin Smith went missing in February last year from her home in Saldanha Bay, a fishing town 135 kilometres (85 miles) north of Cape Town, and has never…