Nigeria’s disease control authorities have reviewed the country’s Ebola readiness after Kenya confirmed an imported case of the Bundibugyo virus, a species of Ebola, raising fresh concerns about the risk of the disease reaching Nigerian soil through international travel. The…
A military transport aircraft vanished from radar, plunged into a swampy creek, and killed everyone on board. Nigeria is now asking how. A routine flight that never arrived On the morning of Monday, 5 October 2026, a Nigerian Air Force…
A Fee Increase Long in the Making Ahmadu Bello University has officially raised its undergraduate registration charges, effective from the 2026/2027 academic session. The Governing Council approved the new schedule at its 218th Special meeting on Tuesday, 29 September 2026…
Nigeria has been celebrating a milestone in financial inclusion. On paper, the numbers look impressive. Yet a closer look at the 2026 Access to Financial Services in Nigeria survey, published by Enhancing Financial Innovation & Access (EFInA) and weighted by…
A court has confirmed what should have been obvious from the start: the South African state failed a mentally disabled 17-year-old at every turn, locking him in an adult prison for nearly three months and leaving him exposed to assault…
A Damaging Result on a Dangerous Pitch The Confederation of African Football has issued a formal apology to the Nigeria Football Federation and is set to bar the Estádio Nacional 24 de Setembro in Guinea-Bissau from hosting any further 2027…
Legislation is only ever as good as the will to enforce it, and Nigeria’s insurance sector has seen enough promising reforms dissolve into bureaucratic inertia to know the difference. That is precisely the message the Centre for Credible Reforms and…
Ikeja Electric has issued a public apology after five of its Band A feeders in Lagos failed to deliver the minimum 20 hours of daily electricity supply on 30 September and 1 October 2026, with one feeder recording no supply…
There is a particular kind of confidence that speaks louder than any press release, and Tony Elumelu demonstrated it plainly on the last day of September 2026. Through Heirs Energies Limited, the company he controls, Elumelu acquired six million additional…
There is a version of Nigeria’s story that rarely makes the front page — not the corruption scandals or the fuel queues, but the quiet, determined young people who study hard, earn their qualifications and then go on to contribute…