archiveJanuary 26, 2025

A jihadist suicide attack have claimed the lives of about 27 Nigerian soldiers in the northeast, two Army sources told AFP on Sunday. The troops on Friday launched a ground offensive on a stronghold of Islamic State-affiliated militants in a wasteland straddling Borno and Yobe States. According to a military...

• as NNPC Ltd rolls out five mini-LNG stations in Ajaokuta this week Described by Nigerians from all walks of life as unprecedented, President Bola Tinubu will be performing the groundbreaking ceremony for five mini-LNG plants in Ajaokuta, Kogi State. Mr. Olufemi Soneye, Chief Corporate Communications Officer of NNPC Limited...

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has opposed the order by the Ewi of Ado Ekiti, Oba Rufus Adeyemo Adejugbe, to dissolve the Ekiti Shari’ah Panel after summoning the Chief Imam of Ado Ekiti, Shaykh Jamiu Kewulere, to his palace. As widely reported by the media, the dissolution order was given...

The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) has said that headline inflation could drop to 24.7 per cent in 2025 if there is improvements in fiscal and monetary policy alignment. The economic advocacy group similarly forecasts the foreign exchange rate to stabilise at an average of N1,300 to the dollar. It...

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a consignment of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, concealed in a duvet and packaged for export to the United Kingdom through the cargo shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos. NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, disclosed...

The price of tomatoes has crashed in Lagos and some other parts of the country to what farmers attributed to the glut being experienced at the moment due to the harvest season. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a tomato glut is a situation where there is an...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu, over the alleged ”arbitrary, unconstitutional, unlawful, unfair, and unreasonable 50 per cent telecom tariff hike by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Also joined in the suit as defendants are the NCC, which recently approved the...

The President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Chief Davidson Chizuoke S. Alaribe, has commended the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) for its continuous compliance to the highest standards of integrity and transparency which is critical to the success of its operations in safeguarding depositors’ funds and...

BudgIT, a prominent civic tech organisation promoting transparency and accountability in Nigeria’s public finance, has noted recent publications across various media outlets that misrepresented our findings on Sokoto State's budget and fiscal transparency. While we appreciate the media’s role in fostering dialogue, these reports inaccurately represent our analysis, compelling us...

As a gesture of immortalizing a slain officer of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Assistant Superintendent of the EFCC, ASE1 Aminu Sahabi Salisu, the Commission has named the administrative block of its Academy in Karu, Abuja after him. Executive Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede disclosed this...