A chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima, has said former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Kankwaso, was a victim of Sharia. Galadima told Arise TV’s The Morning Show on Thursday, monitored by our correspondent, shortly after the United States Congress received a bill seeking to punish Kwankwaso and some groups […]

Former Arsenal midfielder Thomas Partey has been charged with two additional counts of rape, the Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed. Partey, 32, has denied raping two women and sexually assaulting a third and is due to stand trial in November. Prosecutors have now authorised the new allegations, bringing further charges against the Ghanaian international. He […]

Justice Obiora Egwatu on Thursday stepped aside from the Federal High Court’s high-profile asset forfeiture suit involving former Attorney-General Abubakar Malami, SAN, and two others, citing personal reasons. The judge made the announcement shortly after the parties’ counsel entered appearances. “For personal reasons, and in the best interest of justice, I will recuse myself from […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to deliver his State of the Nation Address at Cape Town City Hall tonight, where he is expected to outline government priorities and interventions for the year ahead. Speaking ahead of the address, Ramaphosa acknowledged growing public sentiment that the country is moving in the right direction, while conceding that […]

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has reached its full designed capacity of 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day (bpd), marking what the company described as a historic milestone and making it the first refinery globally to achieve full nameplate capacity in a single train of that scale. In a statement issued on Wednesday, February 11, […]

The Lagos State Government (LASG) has urged traders, students, and residents to properly sort waste at the source, as part of efforts to reduce flooding and environmental pollution linked to plastic waste. The call was made during a one-day awareness seminar on circular economy and resource efficiency held at Ikosi-Isheri LCDA, organised by the Lagos […]

The Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) has proposed N14.83 billion in its 2026 budget for the feeding of inmates nationwide. Its Controller-General, Sylvester Nwakuche, disclosed this while presenting the agency’s 2025 budget performance and 2026 estimates before the House of Representatives Committee on Reformatory Institutions in Abuja. According to him, the proposed allocation is to feed […]

Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun has commended President Bola Tinubu for the vision that gave birth to the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway. The governor described the project as a game-changing investment with far-reaching implications for Nigeria’s economy, mobility, and industrial growth. Speaking from the perspective of Ogun State’s development experience, the governor explained that the proposed […]

The Senator representing Kogi-Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, and the Minister of Steel Development, Shuaib Audu, engaged in a heated exchange over the funding and development of the Ajaokuta Steel Plant during a joint sitting of the Senate and House of Representatives Mines and Steel Development budget defence session. During the session, Akpoti-Uduaghan compared the steel plant’s […]

Ticket prices for the 2026 FIFA World Cup have soared to unprecedented levels on FIFA’s official resale platform, with some seats selling for over 40 times their original face value, weeks after the main sales phase ended in January. As of Wednesday, a category three seat for the opening match between Mexico and South Africa […]

A new bill in the United States House of Representatives seeks to have the US Secretary of State collaborate with Nigeria to counter what lawmakers describe as the destabilizing impact of illegal Chinese mining operations in the country. The “Nigeria Religious Freedom and Accountability Act of 2026” was introduced on Tuesday by five Republican lawmakers: […]

With the 2027 general elections approaching, the Senate’s conditional approval of electronic transmission is shifting pressure to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), raising fresh questions about infrastructure, preparedness and the credibility of future polls. After much prevarication, the Senate yesterday adopted an amendment mandating the electronic transmission of election results from polling units to […]