AMENDMENT OF NIGERIA’S CONSTITUTION, CHARADE, SHEER WASTE OF RESOURCES – OBY EZEKWESILI Former Minister of Education and Chief Executive Officer of Human Capital Africa, Obiageli Ezekwesili, has described the ongoing constitutional amendment by the National Assembly as a charade and waste of public funds. Ezekwesili insisted that amending the constitution cannot work nor address all the imbalances and inequalities facing …

POLICE RESCUE SIX ABDUCTED LAW STUDENTS IN BENUE The police have successfully rescued six law students of the Yola Campus who were abducted on July 26, 2025, while travelling from Anambra State to Adamawa State. The incident occurred in the late hours of Saturday, July 26, 2025, along the volatile route between Wukari in Taraba State and parts of Benue …

NIGERIA’S ECONOMY TO OUTPACE UK, OTHERS IN 2025 — IMF The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that Nigeria’s economy will grow faster than that of the United Kingdom and several advanced economies in 2025, following an upward revision of the country’s GDP growth forecast from 3.0 to 3.4 percent. The revised projection was contained in the IMF’s latest World …

WITHOUT PETER OBI, YOU’RE JUST A LIMP COALITION – OKON LAGOS TELLS ADC Nigerian actor and comedian Ime ‘Okon of Lagos’ Umoh has shared his thoughts on the opposition coalition that adopted the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as its political platform to challenge President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general election. The newly formed National Opposition Coalition Group, which adopted …

MARKETERS WARN AGAINST DISRUPTION AS DANGOTE PLANS DIRECT FUEL SUPPLY OF PETROL The Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria has warned that the Dangote Petroleum Refinery’s plan to bypass existing distribution channels and supply refined petroleum products directly to end-users would lead to a nationwide disruption, long-term product scarcity, and the collapse of existing supply networks. The oil …

APC, ADC SIZE EACH OTHER AHEAD 2027 ELECTION The battle for Nigeria’s 2027 elections is heating up as defections from opposition parties to the ruling All Progressives Congress continue to fuel tension. Both the APC and the newly formed African Democratic Congress are trading accusations over the motivations behind these political moves. While the APC claims that the governors and …

MPOX OUTBREAK HITS BENUE, RECORDS 31 SUSPECTED CASES Benue State has recorded 31 suspected cases of Mpox across five Local Government Areas (LGAs) — Makurdi, Ushongo, Gwer East, Katsina-Ala, and Guma. The Executive Secretary of the Benue State Primary Health Care Board, Mrs. Grace Wende, disclosed this on Thursday during the Benue State Stakeholders Engagement/Townhall Meeting on the Mpox Vaccination …

ADC REJECTS BALA’S CLAIM TO PARTY’S LEADERSHIP, RELEASES RESIGNATION LETTER The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has dismissed the claim of its former Deputy National Chairman, Hon. Nafiu Bala, to the party’s national chairmanship. Speaking at a press conference in Abuja, Bala, who previously served as the ADC’s national deputy chairman, accused the David Mark-led interim leadership of unlawfully taking over …

IT’S LUNACY TO TALK ABOUT PETER OBI PLOTTING COUP AGAINST TINUBU – MEDIA AIDE Media aide to Mr Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Valentine Obienyem, has described the allegation against his principal, plotting a coup to dethrone President Bola Tinubu, as a dangerous joke taken too far. He also described the allegation as …

HOW UNIVERSITY STUDENT WAS GUNNED DOWN OVER LAND DISPUTE IN ENUGU Tears streamed down Felicia Onoh’s face as she struggled to understand why her son, Sochima, was gunned down in cold blood, right in the middle of a community land dispute that had dragged on for years. The 25-year-old 200-level Accounting student of Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Uwana, Ebonyi State, …

FOOD CRISIS: 34 MILLION NIGERIANS AT RISK OF HUNGER AS UN FOOD AID ENDS About 1.4 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in northeastern Nigeria are at the risk of starvation following the withdrawal of humanitarian funding by the United Nations (UN). The Cadre Harmonisé Food and Nutrition Insecurity Analysis, led by the government of Nigeria, with support from the Food …

TINUBU EXTENDS TENURE OF CUSTOMS CG Bayo Onanuga, Presidential spokesman, announced this in a statement on Thursday. “The Presidency announces that the tenure of the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Mr. Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, MFR, which is due to expire on August 31, 2025, has been extended by one year.” “The extension, approved by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, …

WE’RE FACING SERIOUS EDUCATION CRISIS – GOVS Governors of the 36 states of the federation have expressed worry that the country is faced with a challenging crisis in education, saying foundational skills are critical building blocks for achieving educational objectives.Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) and Kwara State governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, stated this on Thursday in Abuja, during the …

STILL WAITING FOR PAYMENT OF ENUGU STATE GRATUITY It is now over three months since retired civil servants of Enugu State had gone through the rigorous and excruciating pains of physical and bio-metric verification exercise ordered by the state government for them to receive their long outstanding retirement benefits. The expectation among these pensioners was that immediately the exercise was …

STILL WAITING FOR ENUGU STATE GRATUITY It is now over three months since retired civil servants of Enugu State had gone through the rigorous and excruciating pains of physical and bio-metric verification exercise ordered by the state government for them to receive their long outstanding retirement benefits. The expectation among these pensioners was that immediately the exercise was concluded, they …