Peter Agada, the Young Progressives Party’s presidential candidate and one of the declared contenders for the 2027 election, has stated plainly that he will not restore Nigeria’s petrol subsidy if he wins power. The declaration puts him at odds with…
Nigeria’s federal government has, once again, reached for the conversion bill as its instrument of educational reform. President Bola Tinubu signed legislation on Friday, 16 October 2026, transforming the Federal Polytechnic, Kaduna, into the Federal University of Technology and Vocational…
A Family Returned, A Pattern That Persists Ahmed Abubakar Zakka, his wife and their infant daughter Fatima are free. After ten days in the hands of kidnappers who seized them from their home in Kaduna State and broadcast their captivity…
INEC Opens a Fresh Window for Candidates Dropped From the 2027 Governorship List The Independent National Electoral Commission has issued a formal public clarification explaining why certain candidates are absent from the final list for the 2027 governorship elections —…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has formally recognised Senator Saliu Mustapha as the Peoples Democratic Party’s senatorial candidate for Kwara Central, confirming the validity of his substitution onto the PDP ticket after he abandoned the All Progressives Congress. The decision,…
It was nearly ten o’clock on a Tuesday night in Okpoko when a three-storey building under construction gave way and crashed onto the house next door. Inside that house, in their bedroom, were Happiness Ugoagu and her fourteen-year-old daughter, Chikaima.…
A Lead That Dissolved Russia head coach Valery Karpin has flatly rejected Eric Chelle’s claim that tactical adjustments from the Nigeria bench drove the Super Eagles’ dramatic comeback in their 3-3 international friendly draw. The match, played as the two…
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…
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…