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Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer gestures during a joint press conference with US President Donald Trump (unseen) following their meeting at Chequers, in Aylesbury, central England, on September 18, 2025, on the second day of the US President’s second state visit. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)   Starmer announced Monday that he will stand […]

Former Nigerian Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been acquitted of all six bribery-related charges brought against her by the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA), bringing to a close one of the most high-profile corruption investigations involving a former African public official. A jury at Southwark Crown Court in London returned unanimous not-guilty […]

Every institution has its defining scandal. For some, it is corruption. For others, incompetence. For a few particularly unfortunate organizations, it is both. The latest controversy engulfing Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) belongs to a more modern category of institutional failure: the inability to protect the very information entrusted to its care.   According […]

Nigeria’s counter-insurgency campaign recorded one of its most consequential tactical victories in recent years after troops of the Joint Task Force (North East), Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), stormed a heavily fortified terrorist enclave in the Mandara Mountains of southern Borno State and rescued 360 hostages abducted and held by insurgents.   The daring operation, conducted […]

Three years into the presidency of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria resembles a patient who was promised corrective surgery only to awaken from the operation poorer, hungrier and still bleeding. The slogans remain uplifting. The speeches are polished. The PowerPoint slides from government ministries continue to glow with the optimism of consultants billing by the hour. […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Lagos Zonal Directorate 2, on Wednesday, arraigned self-styled relationship therapist Okoro Blessing Nkiruka, popularly known as Blessing CEO, before the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, over an alleged fresh ₦13 million fraud. ADVERTISEMENT   Blessing CEO was arraigned before Justice Yelim Bogoro on a six-count charge bordering […]

At least 39 residents of Magamin Diddi village in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State have been abducted by armed bandits during a reconciliation mission.   The victims, mostly elders from the community, had reportedly travelled to Fadama Forest to meet with the parents of a notorious bandit leader, identified as Smally, in an […]

Boko Haram insurgents have killed soldiers at a military formation at Mandara-Girau, in Biu local government area of Borno State.   Mandara-Girau is located few kilometers away from Biu town.   Security sources revealed that the attackers stormed the military location in the early hours of Friday and opened fire on the troops, amidst heavy […]

The Federal government has commenced plans to repatriate more than 1,000 of its citizens from South Africa as concerns grow over rising anti-immigrant sentiments and renewed xenophobic tensions in the southern African nation.   Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Friday that screening for a voluntary repatriation programme began on Thursday, with authorities expecting […]

A Nigerian federal court has sentenced four men to death by hanging for their roles in the June 2022 attack on St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, southwestern Nigeria. The attack, one of the deadliest assaults on a place of worship in the country, killed dozens of worshippers and injured many others. The four convicted […]

The family of former minister and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) confirmed the abduction, disclosing that Mrs. Olaide John-Paul and her 12-year-old twin sons were kidnapped by the gunmen on Wednesday, June 3, 2026.   According to a statement issued by Adelabu’s media aide, Femi Awogboro, the victims were kidnapped at about 7:30 […]

The Nigeria Police Force, Yobe State Command, has uncovered an illegal firearms fabrication factory in Potiskum, Yobe State, as well as arrested seven suspects, the police describing it as one of the significant breakthroughs.   The Command’s spokesman, SP Dungus Abdulkarim, in a press statement, said the arrest was part of the renewed strategies of […]