The Atiku Question, Dismissed The African Democratic Party’s Vice-Presidential Candidate, Hon. Chinazam Ike, has flatly rejected speculation that the ADP could step aside for former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar ahead of the 2027 general elections. Speaking in a wide-ranging interview that…
Nigeria is in the path of a fast-moving storm system. The Nigerian Meteorological Agency issued a severe thunderstorm alert at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, 14 September 2026, warning that dangerous weather conditions were already tearing through eight northern states and…
Cross River State has lost one of its serving commissioners in circumstances that have left colleagues, friends and family in a state of raw shock. Eka William, the state’s Commissioner for Power and Renewable Energy, died on Saturday, 12 September…
Opposition Caught Bargaining Before the Ballot The All Progressives Congress has turned its fire on Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso after the Nigeria Democratic Congress vice-presidential candidate made a very public appeal to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar — urging him to…
A Six-Hour Window of Danger The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) issued a severe weather alert on Friday, 11 September 2026, covering 23 states and valid between 5:50 pm and 11:50 pm local time. The agency confirmed that severe thunderstorm cells…
A Nigerian woman was arrested, transported across state lines and paraded before journalists — all because she shared a fake post without checking whether it was true. Hafsat Abubakar, a social media user based in Zaria, Kaduna State, is now…
At 10:44 p.m. on Monday, 7 September 2026, the 330kV Kainji–Birnin Kebbi transmission line tripped. Engineers attempted to restore it at 11:07 p.m., but the line tripped a second time, signalling something more serious than a routine fault. The Transmission…
A first class degree from a British university. Eleven years without a job. That is the reality Oguejiofor Jonathan Okwudiri Jnr laid bare in a single post on X, and Nigeria took notice. The Nigerian graduate, posting under the handle…
What happened? On Tuesday, 1 September, the Akwa Ibom State Government published a Facebook post describing Senate President Godswill Akpabio as the “Acting President of Nigeria”. The post appeared during the state government’s official livestream of a reception ceremony for…
The debate over who bears responsibility for Abuja’s recurring floods has sharpened following remarks by Philip Agbese, deputy spokesman of the House of Representatives, who pushed back firmly against critics targeting FCT Minister Nyesom Wike. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday,…