President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the arming of forest guards across the country, marking a major shift in Nigeria’s security strategy as the government intensifies efforts to combat banditry, kidnapping and illegal mining in rural areas. The President announced the decision on Wednesday during the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the State House, Abuja. He said the rising …

A SaharaReporters’ review of Nigeria’s foreign trade statistics for the first three quarters of 2025, covering January to September, has shown that the country imported fuel worth N5.3 trillion. According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), between January and March (Q1 2025), Nigeria spent N1.76 trillion on the importation of Motor Spirit Ordinary (fuel). A further …

Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the spokesperson of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has acknowledged concerns over the presidential bid of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi ahead of the 2027 general election. Speaking on Friday during an appearance on Arise TV’s The Morning Show, Abdullahi said the situation poses a challenge that worries the …

The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, has reiterated that Christians must not be subjected to Sharia law or court processes meant solely for Muslims. He stated this on Wednesday at the opening of the 2025 triennial meeting of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council, NIREC, in Abuja. The event, themed “Collaboration of Inter-Religious Council with Government to Promote Peace in Nigeria,” …

A former Senior Special Assistant in the Zamfara State Government, Musa Muhammad Kamara, has revealed that Tinubu’s Minister of State for Defence and former Zamfara governor, Bello Mohammed Matawalle, bought vehicles, funded armed terrorist and shielded a notorious terrorist after his arrest during his time as Governor. Matawalle was appointed Minister of State for Defence by Bola Tinubu in August …

For a regime’s ruler that shamelessly and scandously awarded the contract for a 700km road to his family at a gluttonous cost of 15 trillion Naira without appropriation by the National Assembly, and without any competitive bidding by any other contractors, and without any known due process taking place to ensure that Nigerians were not grifted of their finances by …

Leading American political analysts say the People’s Democratic Party has just taken its most significant institutional step since losing national power in 2015. The introduction and issuance of a formal expulsion certificate created under the initiative of the Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN–led National Working Committee (NWC) after the Ibadan Convention expelled Nyesom Wike and ten others is being described as …

,I just returned from a Congressional delegation to Nigeria with @HouseAppropsGOP. While there, we visited Benue State. We met with Bishops Anagbe and Dugu and Tor Tiv. We met with suffering IDPs who are all Christians. They are forced to live in camps that are regularly attacked by Fulani Islamic radicals. We heard heartbreaking stories from survivors of this horrific …

Nigeria’s corruption crisis is so pervasive that a strict enforcement of existing laws could land the majority of citizens in prison, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has warned. The alarm was raised by the ICPC Resident Anti-Corruption Commissioner for Kaduna State, Sakaba Ishaku, at a capacity-building workshop on local government accountability convened on Wednesday by …

A former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has explained the circumstances surrounding his continued detention by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), after voluntarily reporting to the agency on Monday. The former minister is being questioned over several issues, including allegations relating to terrorism financing, the ownership of 46 bank accounts, the engagement …

The Supreme Court has overridden the pardon granted by President Bola Tinubu to an Abuja-based house wife, Maryam Sanda, who was in 2020 sentenced to death by hanging for killing her husband, Bilyaminu Bello, during a domestic dispute. President Tinubu had reduced Sanda’s sentence to 12 years imprisonment on compassionate ground. But in a judgment on Friday, the Supreme Court, …

The Federal Government has announced that all taxable Nigerians must possess a Tax Identification Number (TIN) to operate a bank account, starting January 1, 2026. The Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Taiwo Oyedele, made the disclosure in an interview shared on his X account on Thursday. Oyedele said the move is backed by Section …

I have never responded to a rejoinder in my career as a writer. Not out of arrogance, not out of disdain, and certainly not because criticism unsettles me. I have avoided rejoinders because Nigerian political rebuttals are almost always predictable exercises in ad hominem attacks, strawman arguments, and whataboutism, carefully designed to evade substance while appearing combative. This response would …

The United States is proposing a change to its visa-free travel programme which could impact millions of international travellers. Under new guidelines announced by the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, individuals seeking entry through the Electronic System for Travel Authorisation will now be required to provide their social media history from the past five years. This proposed revision, published …

The family of detained Delta State-born lawyer, Moses Oddiri, has raised the alarm over the illegal and prolonged detention of their father by the Department of State Services (DSS). The family noted that the agency is holding him despite the expiration of a 30-day court-granted warrant. According to the family, the DSS quietly obtained a 30-day remand order from a …