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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has held talks with French businessman Vincent Bolloré in Paris on plans to expand investment in Nigeria’s creative and digital economy. The meeting, held during the President’s working vacation, focused on opportunities to deepen the localisation of operations by the Bolloré Group and increase investment in sectors including film, entertainment, fibre-optic […]

The battle over political money ahead of Nigeria’s 2027 general elections has taken a legal turn, with the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) dragging the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before the Federal High Court in Abuja. SERAP is demanding that INEC publicly disclose whether it has imposed limits on political contributions under Section […]

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has called on President Bola Tinubu’s administration to explain why the President will again not attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York, describing his repeated absence as a matter deserving public clarification. The development follows the Presidency’s announcement that Vice President Kashim Shettima will represent Nigeria and lead […]

A chair can say a lot. Sometimes it says nothing. And sometimes, its emptiness becomes the loudest statement in the room. For the third consecutive year, Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is not personally attending the United Nations General Assembly, with Vice President Kashim Shettima representing Nigeria. That fact alone proves nothing beyond the fact […]

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed state governments and transport stakeholders to intensify efforts to reduce transportation costs across Nigeria through the expansion of compressed natural gas (CNG) and electric-powered public transport. The President said the Federal Government, in collaboration with the 36 state governments, is targeting measurable reductions in transportation costs from October 1 […]

Reputation is one of the most misunderstood assets in public life. Leaders often treat it as something manufactured by communications teams: a slogan unveiled, a speech polished, a logo refreshed, a flattering interview secured. Yet reputation is not what an institution says about itself. It is what people conclude after watching how that institution behaves […]

Five of the largest U.S. television networks have suspended their shared coverage of President Donald Trump after the White House barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico from its grounds, escalating an already tense confrontation between the administration and the news media. ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC announced Monday that they would not participate in […]

The confrontation between the White House and major news organizations has reached a point that should concern Americans across the political spectrum. The issue is not whether journalists deserve immunity from criticism. They do not.The issue is whether government officials should be able to restrict press access because they disapprove of how those journalists report […]

The high- level meetings and debates of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) open today at the UN Headquarters in New York, United States, with about 300 heads of states and governments, Vice Presidents, Ministers, and at least a Crown Prince in attendance. This is the 81st UNGA, the UN having been established in June 1945. […]

Liquidity in Nigeria’s banking system fell sharply on Thursday following a fresh Open Market Operations (OMO) intervention by the Central Bank of Nigeria, with available cash declining by ₦3.86tn. Market data referenced by AIICO Capital Limited in an investor note showed that system liquidity dropped 65.53 per cent, from ₦5.89tn to ₦2.03tn. The decline followed […]Read More

After Deadly Rhode Island Stabbing. A night out turned deadly after a fight erupted outside a Providence lounge, leaving a University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth football player dead and another injured. Chukwunonso Uzoma Eze, 19, a Nigerian student at UMass Dartmouth, has been charged with murder in connection with the stabbing death of 18-year-old Marvins Antoine of […]

  President Donald Trump came before the United Nations this week with a message that has defined much of his second presidency: The United States is powerful, it intends to use that power, and it will not permit international institutions to place limits on American sovereignty. There was little ambiguity in the message. Trump celebrated […]