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The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has sealed off France, Belgium and Italy visa centres located at the Mukhtar El-Yakub House, Central Business District, Abuja.   The office was sealed with the combined efforts of operatives from the FCCPC, Nigerian Police Force and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps as staff of the […]

A widening schism is emerging between President Bola Tinubu and his National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, over the fate of plans to host a permanent UN counter terrorism office in Abuja. In a stunning reversal, President Tinubu has reportedly backpedaled on an earlier commitment to host a permanent United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT) in […]

Justice Chizoba Orji of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court on Thursday granted Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, a ₦50m bail after she pleaded not guilty to alleged defamation.    The female lawmaker was granted bail with one surety, who must have a landed property in Abuja and must be a responsible resident of […]

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Olohundare Jimoh, has said that the use of a stun gun as a form of threat or to create fear in the mind of another constitutes an offence under the law.   Jimoh disclosed this on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday while giving an update on the case […]

President Bola Tinubu has directed the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, and the Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa, to immediately arrest killer herders who perpetrated the heinous killing of over 100 people in Yelewata community in Benue State.   President Tinubu gave the directive while addressing stakeholders at the Government House, Markudi.   […]

President Bola Tinubu has directed security chiefs to implement his earlier directive to bring lasting peace and security to Benue State.   President Tinubu renewed his order in the wake of the latest round of reprisal attacks that led to the death of many people.   On the president’s directive, intelligence chiefs, the police and […]

  By any honest reckoning, Nigeria was already bent beneath the weight of misgovernance when President Bola Tinubu seized the reins of power in May 2023. But what has unfolded since is not just economic hardship – it is a deliberate, systemic immiseration of a people already brought to their knees. Where Buhari left ruin, […]

In a powerful symbolic gesture, President Bola Tinubu conferred national honors on several fallen and living heroes of Nigeria’s pro-democracy movement, declaring that their sacrifices “wove the culture of democracy into the very fabric of our nation.” “As we mark a twenty-sixth year of unbroken democracy, it is right to honor those who have made […]

In a bold but controversial move to regain control over national parks and forest reserves, the Nigerian Ministry of Environment has obtained presidential approval for the creation of a new paramilitary “forest guard” force, to reclaim Nigeria’s 1,129 forest reserves – many of which are now strongholds for bandits, jihadists, kidnappers, and illegal miners. Aso […]

President Bola Tinubu has urged the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, not to be distracted by busybodies and naysayers but to focus on his mandate to transform the nation’s capital.   Tinubu stated this on Tuesday when he inaugurated the rehabilitated and refurbished International Conference Centre, Abuja, which was renamed in […]

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project Nigeria has urged President Bola Tinubu to direct the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, to withdraw the threat to shut down 34 foreign embassies in Abuja over ground rent debts.   The group’s reaction followed recent revelations by the FCTA that at least 34 embassies in […]

Two years into President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s reign, Nigeria finds itself not at the threshold of the promised “Renewed Hope” but trapped in the ruins of what critics now call a “Harvest of Suffering.” In his second-anniversary address, President Tinubu painted a picture of progress; a fantasy panorama so detached from Nigeria’s scorched-earth reality that […]