At just 50, Matthew Tonlagha’s life has orbited the full cycle of human accomplishments. From general welfare, education support, healthcare provision, community development, youth empowerment, job and wealth creation, and security of lives and physical infrastructure. In case, you don’t know him, Tonlagha is the Chairman of Maton Engineering...
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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...
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) will on Tuesday deliver judgment in a N5.5 billion defamation suit filed by two operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) against the Incorporated Trustees of Socio- Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP). The group had on September 9,...
Nigerian politicians have once again carried out another successful coup against the people. They have fired up a nationwide frenzy about the 2027 general elections just as the democratic space in which those elections will take place is dying. Those yearning for paradise had better hang their hopes up...
Tiv women in Takum and Donga Local Government Areas of Taraba State have appealed to President Bola Tinubu and Governor Agbu Kefas to facilitate the urgent deployment of security personnel to their communities to enable them return to their farms. The women, drawn from affected communities including Adu, Gbundu,...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by politician and online publisher, Omoyele Sowore, against the Department of State Services (DSS), its Director-General, Oluwatosin Adeola Ajayi, and Meta Platforms, Incorporated (formerly Facebook). Justice Mohammed Umar, in a judgment on Thursday, resolved the...
Prominent chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ifeanyi Araraume, has extended warm felicitations to Muslims in Nigeria and globally on the joyous occasion of Eid-el-Fitr. In a statement, Araraume acknowledged the significance of Eid-el-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan, a period of spiritual reflection, fasting, and devotion....
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has congratulated Lebara Nigeria on its official launch, describing the milestone as a strong vote of confidence in Nigeria’s digital economy and its future as a leading technology and investment destination in Africa. Nigeria’s telecommunications sector is a significant economic driver, with a 5.78 per cent...
It was the German playwright Bertolt Brecht who first made this satanic suggestion in his satirical poem, Die Losung. He suggested that since the dictatorial regime in East Germany could not put up with the libertarian noise of the masses, it might be better to dissolve the people so...
Justice Mohammed Garba Umar of the Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed January 22, 2026, to begin the trial of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 election, Omoyele Sowore, for the alleged criminal defamation of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The Department of State Services (DSS) had...
Kogi State governor, Alhaji Usman Ododo on Tuesday in Lokoja the state capital, said security reforms recently introduced by President Bola Tinubu is yielding results across the country, including the recovery of a large stockpile of arms and ammunition in his state. The governor thanked the National Security Adviser,...
President Bola Tinubu has joined family, friends, and well-wishers across the country in celebrating Prince Samuel Adedoyin, an extraordinary industrialist, philanthropist, and founder of the Doyin Group of Companies, on his 90th birthday. President Tinubu in his birthday tribute on Thursday said: “Prince Adedoyin, a national icon with decades of...
By PAUL EJIME – Dangote Industries Limited (DIL) is targeting an annual revenue of US$55 billion from the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, which is expected to expand production from 650,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 1.4 million bpd, as the world’s largest, Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man and President of DIL, has projected....
In a nation burdened by deep poverty, decaying infrastructure, and an urgent need for visionary leadership, the optics of Nigeria’s president jetting off to Europe for a two-week vacation are jarring. Yet, this is not new. Nigeria’s political elite has long displayed a tendency to spend leisure time and...
In circumstances like Nigeria, where economic challenges and living costs are already weighing heavily on many people, yet the administration’s economic experts aren’t fully considering the impact on citizens. Talking straight without sugarcoating, for citizens, the past two years of the administration have been a tough struggle for survival,...
The public has been treated to some settlement of the political crisis that has engulfed Rivers state since after 2023. President Tinubu and his Rivers political ‘Warrant Chief’, FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, have been crowing to the hearing of all that they have struck a deal on the palaver....
President Bola Tinubu has arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to participate in the 17th Summit of Heads of State and Government for the Global South and Emerging Economic Bloc, which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS). The President’s flight touched down at the Galeao Air...
By MIMI HEMBA, Makurdi – Chairman of the Benue State Traditional Council, Tor Tiv, Orchivirigh Prof. James Ayatse, declared on Wednesday that land grabbing was at the core of the decades-long conflict in the state. Speaking during a meeting between President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Benue stakeholders at the...
President Tinubu and his squad have been observing their mid term. I would not exactly say they have been celebrating as they were reluctant to roll out the red carpets and call in the clowns of ceremony. Instead, the presidency has caused an elaborate avalanche of Power Point presentations...