A 21-year-old female police officer, Peace Banshuam Otu, has reportedly been kidnapped in the Obuluku (Isieluku) area of Delta State. Banshuam, an indigene of Baffin Village in Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State, was recently recruited into the Nigeria Police Force and posted to Delta State. She...
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By JACOB KUBEKA, Abuja – National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, has called on all aspirants seeking elective positions on the platform of the party to conduct themselves with utmost discipline, maturity, and statesmanship ahead of the forthcoming party primaries across the country....
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has trained 500 young men and women in financial prudence and distributed 150 minibuses and 200 tricycles to another set in Cross River State as part of its empowerment programme. Speaking during the Skills Acquisition and Capacity Enhancement Programme in Calabar, Cross...
By LEONARD KARSHIMA SHILGBA – There is a quiet but devastating irony in modern Christianity: the Church that began in homes now struggles to function without cathedrals; the faith whose Founder “had nowhere to lay His head” now measures spiritual success by the acreage of its auditoriums; and the...
Former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has endorsed the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) decision to zone its 2027 presidential ticket South. He described the decision as “a step toward national healing, fairness and national unity.” Kwankwaso spoke on Saturday while addressing delegates at the party’s national convention in Abuja....
When the Economist described Nigeria over 18 years ago as a “democracy by court order”, it ventured into prophetic journalism. In the period since then, partisan politicians have become comfortable with playing second fiddle to judges, a sizeable number of whom have emerged as the most avid tribe of belligerents in...
By ZAGAZOLA MAKAMA – The latest international media appearance by Plateau-based activist, Masara Kim Usman, has once again exposed how misinformation, emotional propaganda and outright fabrication are being weaponised to inflame Plateau’s communal crisis and falsely portray it as an “Islamic jihadist war” against Christians. In his now-circulating interview,...
I have fallen victim to two sets of phone calls in recent weeks about political developments in Nigeria. Between foreign friends and associates on one hand and my local elite readers and friends on the other. The foreigners have uniformly expressed consternation at recent political developments in Nigeria. They...
The key failure of the post-colonial state in Africa – transcending both ideology and individual personality – is a refusal to grasp the importance of succession planning. This failure haunts every sector, from politics to the economy, to the very way our society is held together. Without a plan...
In my Ph.D. class in governance and leadership, at the Abuja Leadership Centre where we are dealing with the comparative analysis of governance and leadership in Africa, we just treated the intractable issue of institutions and accountability. We noted how institutional integrity upholds and sustains accountability, but unfortunately, how...
BY NGOBUA JOHNNIE – Abuja – Senior Deputy Directors in the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE), have decried unjust career stagnation and unfair promotion of staff in the Bureau. In a recent petition signed by the Concerned Senior Directors of BPE and addressed to the Vice President, Senator Kashim...
There are two broad categories of success in this country. The first announces itself long before it arrives. It travels with noise, dresses in spectacle, and insists, sometimes rather impatiently, that you take notice. The second is quieter, almost reluctant to be seen. It builds, it steadies, it gives,...
In what is being described as a major breakthrough in academic research support, Thesisprofs has announced the official launch of Thesis SpeedWrite, a structured AI-powered academic writing system developed to simplify and reorganise the way students and academics approach thesis, dissertation, and academic writing. The platform, scheduled for official...
The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), has rapped the Socio-economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), for berating the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) over Tuesday’s judgement awarding N100 million to two operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) defamed by the NGO....
Baze University has announced the appointment of Professor Abiodun Adeniyi as its new Vice-Chancellor and Ahmad Mahmoud Lawi as Registrar, with both appointments taking effect from May 6, 2026. The appointments were approved by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Founder, Datti Baba-Ahmed, following what the institution...
A terminated sale of a 40 per cent stake in the Amukpe–Escravos Pipeline has drawn renewed attention to Nigeria’s asset disposal processes after fresh independent valuations showed a significant gap between earlier pricing and current estimates. Reports said that assessments conducted in 2025 placed the stake at between $544...
The Northern Ethnic Youth Group Assembly (NEYGA) has rapped the The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) for describing as “a travesty” Tuesday’s judgement of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), awarding N100 million in damages against the NGO. In addition to the N100 million, the...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – The West African Health Organization (WAHO), and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), have been commended for their unwavering commitment to strengthening regional health security and enhancing the collective capacity of the member-nations to prevent, detect, and respond to public health threats....
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Tuesday found the Incorporated Trustees of Socio- Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) liable in a defamation suit filed by two operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS).The court ordered SERAP to pay the sum of N100 million...
Ahead of Benin’s 12th April presidential election, the ECOWAS Long-Term Observation Mission has continued to observe pre-election activities in the country’s 12 administrative Districts and hold consultations with political stakeholders as a confidence-building mechanism and preventive diplomacy to ensure a peaceful and credible electoral process. In Cotonou, the Observers met with...