The Senate on Tuesday grilled the management of the Investments and Securities Tribunal (IST) over its expenditure of N16 million on office cleaning and fumigation in 2025, describing the spending as questionable at a time of widespread economic strain. The scrutiny came during the tribunal’s defence of its 2026 budget before the Senate Committee on…
Nigeria and Galatasaray top striker Victor Osimhen said he could have been playing his football in Italy with Juventus but for the treatment meted out to him by former club, Napoli. Speaking to Gazzetta dello Sport, Osimhen revealed that Juventus wanted his services before he signed for Turkish side Galatasaray, but Napoli’s president Aurelio De…
The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has reportedly acquired about 35 commercial drones, signalling a shift in tactics in its campaign against Nigerian security forces. The development comes months after air and drone strikes ordered by Donald Trump, US president, targeted insurgent groups in Sokoto state on Christmas Day 2025. Although the strikes were…
The Senate on Tuesday passed the Electoral Act, 2022 (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill 2026 after heated deliberations and a contentious debate over Clause 60, which triggered a rowdy session in the upper chamber Proceedings resumed with a demand for a division on Clause 60 raised by Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (ADC, Abia South). Senate President Godswill…
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation, has accused Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna state, of posing a threat to national security over allegations made against Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, National Security Adviser (NSA), and Senator Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna. In a statement on Tuesday, Fani-Kayode said El-Rufai made “very serious allegations” during…
The Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested three Maiduguri-based socialites for alleged Naira mutilation. The suspects are Jibrin Bukar, Dauda Adamu and Abdullahi Mohammed. Bukar, Adamu and Mohammed were arrested following a viral video circulated on social media platforms where they were seen spraying and mutilating Naira notes…
Members of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Joint Campus Council Lagos, escaped being abducted on way to their convention in Ekiti. The delegation of student leaders were said to be travelling to the NANS South-West Zone D Convention at Ekiti State University when the incident occurred. In a Tuesday statement by its Public…
The trial of former Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, and his Commissioner for Finance, Ademola Banu, over the alleged diversion of ₦5.78 billion Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) funds resumed on Monday, February 16, 2026, with fresh revelations before Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin. Testifying as the sixth…
By Suyi Ayodele He was meant to be second-in-command to the Owa Obokun of Ijesaland; in reality, he was the town’s de facto ruler. Ògèdèngbé Agbógungbórò (he who goes to war bearing his deity along) was the great 19th-century Ijesha warrior whose steel had been tempered in the furnace of the Yoruba wars. A hard…
The Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, has raised fresh concerns over what he described as the lack of urgency by security agencies in addressing insecurity in the state, alleging that intelligence provided to them is often ignored because it is “not their priority.” Speaking during an interview, the governor said that although technology now makes…
