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Court Convicts Ex-Power Minister Saleh Mamman Over ₦33.8bn Fraud

Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has convicted a former Minister of Power, Mr Saleh Mamman, on a 12-count charge bordering on fraud and money laundering brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Delivering judgment, Justice Omotosho held that the anti-graft agency successfully proved the former minister’s culpability […]

Video: Oshiomhole, Akpabio Clash Disrupts Senate Plenary for 15 Minutes

Proceedings in the Senate were temporarily disrupted on Tuesday following a heated exchange between Senator Adams Oshiomhole and Senate President Godswill Akpabio during plenary. The confrontation, which lasted more than 15 minutes, began while Akpabio was reading the Votes and Proceedings from the previous legislative sitting. The video, as can be seen on the TVC’s […]

APC Waives Presidential Screening Requirement for Tinubu Ahead of 2027 Polls

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has waived the screening requirement for President Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2027 presidential election. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, disclosed this in a statement following the 188th meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) held on Wednesday. According to Morka, the NWC resolved that Tinubu should be […]

FG Orders Full Closure of Eko Bridge Carriageway for Emergency Repairs

The Federal Government has announced plans to shut an entire carriageway of the Eko Bridge in Lagos State to facilitate urgent repair works. The Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, disclosed this on Wednesday during the handover of the Carter Bridge rehabilitation project site to the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) in Lagos. “By […]

NANS Threatens Protests Against South African Firms Over Xenophobic Attacks

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), South-West Zone D, has threatened to stage peaceful protests and picket South African businesses operating in Nigeria over renewed xenophobic attacks in South Africa. The zonal coordinator, Mr. Kayode Adeyemo, disclosed this in a statement issued in Ibadan on Wednesday. Adeyemo expressed outrage over what he described as […]

Court Orders Interim Forfeiture of Nine Abuja Properties Linked to Timipre Sylva

The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the interim forfeiture of nine properties linked to former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, to the Federal Government. Justice Obiora Egwuatu issued the order after counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Oluwaleke Atolagbe, moved an ex parte motion seeking the forfeiture. […]

Tinubu Courts Global Investors in Paris With Reform, Transparency Agenda

President Bola Tinubu has met with global investors in Paris, France, where he emphasised transparency, fiscal discipline, and the rationale behind the swift implementation of his administration’s economic reforms. Mr. Tinubu, who departed Nigeria on Sunday for a three-nation tour, said his government’s economic reform programme was designed to remove structural distortions within the economy […]

17 Reps Defect from ADC to NDC, One Joins APC Over Party Crisis

Seventeen members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday defected from the African Democratic Congress (ADC) to the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), citing the party’s ongoing leadership crisis. In separate letters read at plenary by the Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu, the lawmakers attributed their defection to internal instability within the ADC. Their move follows the […]

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