GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that Oba Francis Alao, the Olugbon of Orile-Igbon in Oyo State, has lambasted former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. This Nigeria news platform understands that the monarch dared Obasanjo to surrender himself to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) because he is not a saint. Alao made the statement days after Obasanjo…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has clarified its stance regarding the nationwide ban on sachet alcohol. The Director of the FCT Directorate of the agency, Kenneth Azikiwe, in Abuja on Monday, said the temporary lifting of the ban was only valid until Dec. 31, 2025. He emphasised that the recent…
Nigeria has assumed the chairmanship of the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four (G-24), taking over from Argentina. The transition was confirmed during the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings, with Nigeria set to formally assume office on November 1, 2025. The G-24, formally known as the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development, comprises developing…
Many traders are currently protesting the Onitsha Main Market closure by the Anambra State government. On Tuesday, January 27, viral videos show the protesters as security officials enforce the market closure order by Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo. Eyewitnesses also confirmed that traders were seen staging a protest walk from the Main Market down to Upper…
A Magistrate Court sitting in Akure has ordered the remand of a 31-year-old Pastor of Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Victor Oluwasegun, to a correctional center for impregnating a 15- year old girl. The Pastor was said to have also impregnated five other young girls in the family way. Oluwasegun was said to have had unlawful…
Nenadi Usman, chairperson of the Labour Party (LP) caretaker committee, says her leadership of the party has endorsed Peter Obi’s involvement in coalition meetings ahead of the 2027 elections. Obi, the LP’s presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, has been attending political coalition meetings aimed at unseating the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027. Earlier…
Nasir El-Rufai, the immediate past governor of Kaduna State, has alleged that his political opponents are planning to arrest, detain and torture him in a dungeon in the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA). El-Rufai, however, vowed that he wouldn’t be intimidated by such threats. He said this in response to a warning from…
The State House has allocated the sum of N10bn in the 2025 approved budget for the installation of a solar mini-grid at the Presidential Villa. This follows an increase in the overall budgetary allocation to the State House Headquarters, which rose from N47.11bn in the initially proposed 2025 budget to N57.11bn in the approved version….
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a Brazil-based Nigerian businessman, Uche Franklin Onyekwere, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, for allegedly concealing cocaine on his body and inside his footwear. Onyekwere, 47, was arrested on Thursday, January 29, 2026, at the arrival hall of the Lagos airport during the…
World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has praised President Bola Tinubu’s economic reforms, describing them as a step “in the right direction”. Okonjo-Iweala was at the villa to brief President Tinubu on the Women Exporters Fund for 146 Nigerian businesswomen. Speaking after a closed-door meeting with the President at the Presidential Villa, Abuja,…
