Panic erupted on Broad Street, Lagos Island, on Tuesday after smoke from a basement fire forced the evacuation of Afrilan Towers, a six-storey office building housing, among others, a branch of the United Bank for Africa (UBA). The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service said the incident began in the inverter room of Afriland Tower’s […]
Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 election, has filed two fundamental rights suits at the Federal High Court, Abuja, against the Department of State Services (DSS) and social media giants Meta (Facebook) and X Corp. In a statement issued on Tuesday by his legal team and signed by […]
The Department of State Services (DSS) has filed a five-count criminal charge against the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Also listed as defendants in the case are social media giants X Corp and Meta Inc., the parent companies of X (formerly Twitter) and […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has recorded 4.44 million online registrations and 509,929 physical registrations in the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR). The figures were released on Monday in Abuja by Sam Olumekun, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee. Olumekun said that as of Sunday, 14 September, […]
Nigeria’s headline inflation rate fell to 20.12 per cent in August, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has reported. The figure, released on Monday in Abuja in the bureau’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Inflation Report for August 2025, marked a decline of 1.76 percentage points from 21.88 per cent recorded in July. On a […]
The Clerk to the National Assembly, Kamorudeen Ogunlana, has said his office has no authority to reinstate suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan to legislative duties. This was contained in a statement issued on Monday by the Director of Information, Bullah Audu Bi-Allah, on behalf of the clerk. The statement followed media reports, public commentary, and a […]
Nigerian chef Hilda Baci has set another Guinness World Record, this time for cooking the largest pot of jollof rice in Lagos. Baci, who first gained international fame in May 2023 with her 100-hour cook-a-thon, achieved the latest feat in partnership with Gino Nigeria on 13 September 2025. She prepared 4,000 kilogrammes of jollof rice—equivalent […]
The President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has dismissed claims of monopolistic practices as the company rolled out 1,000 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) trucks in Lagos. Speaking at a press briefing on Monday, Dangote said the company had already invested ₦2 trillion in trucks and logistics. He disclosed that 4,000 CNG trucks had been ordered […]
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) have issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Federal Government over unresolved matters affecting non-academic staff in universities. In a letter dated 12 September 2025, the unions condemned what they described as the “unjust” disbursement of earned […]
The Special Offences Division of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja, has granted former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele permission to engage forensic experts to examine WhatsApp conversations and a mobile device marked “iPhone 2” tendered as evidence in his ongoing trial. In his ruling, Justice Rahman Oshodi held that the defendant was […]
