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A visiting United States congressional delegation has struck a markedly softer and more conciliatory tone toward Nigeria, signaling a reset in bilateral relations after weeks of unusually harsh rhetoric from Washington over the country’s security crisis. The shift followed the conclusion of a fact-finding visit to Abuja by a US congressional team led by Congressman […]

“Two Years of Nigeria’s Foreign Policy Under President Tinubu Administration: An Informed Commentary” by Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs & International Relations is an exercise in gloss and self-justification at a moment when reality is increasingly stubborn. On its face, the article reads like a paean to the […]

The United States House Appropriations Committee is holding a critical joint congressional briefing today, Tuesday, December, 2, 2025, to examine the escalating violence, mass abductions, and targeted attacks gripping Nigeria, particularly those impacting Christian communities. The high-level session in Washington spotlights the deepening US concern over a crisis that has seen thousands killed and abducted […]

President Bola Tinubu has nominated Christopher Gwabin Musa as the new Minister of Defence.   His nomination was contained in a letter President Tinubu conveyed to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio. Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, disclosed Musa’s nomination in a statement he issued on Tuesday afternoon. In the […]

A former permanent secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Joe Keshi, has faulted the ambassadorial list sent to the Senate by President Bola Tinubu for confirmation.   Keshi questioned the character of some of the nominees, who he claimed should have no business being in the diplomatic service “by any standard”.   “I’m comfortable […]

A former Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Kabiru Turaki (SAN), has been elected as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).   Turaki emerged at the national convention of the party in Ibadan, Oyo State, where delegates from 17 states across the country cast their votes to choose national officers.   […]

Things got heated between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, his entourage, and some soldiers when he was stopped from gaining access to a land in the Gaduwa district of the area.   “This is unprofessional. You cannot be threatening a minister like this,” one of the officials accompanying Wike told the […]

Nigeria finds itself navigating one of its gravest diplomatic crises in decades after US President Donald Trump’s dramatic designation of Nigeria as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) on religious-freedom grounds, followed by threats of military intervention and aid cuts. culled from Culled From From aso.rocks has confirmed from US State Department sources that beyond […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared a former Minister of Petroleum Resources and former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, wanted.   In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, on Monday, the Commission said Sylva was wanted in connection with an alleged case of conspiracy and dishonest conversion of $14,859,257. […]

Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed judgment for November 20 in the terrorism trial of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.   Justice Omotosho chose the date on Friday while ruling after Kanu failed to open his defence having exhausted the six days […]

When Donald Trump publicly floated the possibility of US troops and air-strikes in Nigeria over the alleged mass killing of Christians, he did more than issue a startling foreign-policy statement. He triggered a tectonic shift in US–Nigeria relations, illuminated long-buried tensions, and raised urgent questions about sovereignty, secularism, and strategic partnerships in Africa. This report […]

President Bola Tinubu has pledged his administration’s resolve to deepen global engagement and intensify the fight against terrorism and criminality. The President spoke shortly after an economic briefing by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, who reported during the Federal Executive Council meeting on Thursday that the administration’s reform […]