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Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchifacebook sharing buttontwitter sharing buttonemail sharing buttonsharethis sharing buttonwhatsapp sharing buttonBala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi, has accused the federal government of using the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to “persecute” him and members of his cabinet over their refusal to join the All Progressives Congress (APC). Mohammed spoke on Wednesday at the Bauchi government house …

I watched as Peter Obi, the former Labour Party presidential candidate, formally joined the ADC after abandoning the party he had used to pursue his ill-fated presidential ambition. About three years after the 2023 election, Obi, the wandering politician — who moved from APGA to PDP to Labour and now ADC — still sounded bitter about coming third. He continues …

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) Wednesday said the joint airstrikes carried out by Nigeria and United States of America on Christmas day successfullly hit two major Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist enclaves in the Bauni Forest axis of Tangaza Local Government Area, Sokoto state. According the military high command, intelligence reports had confirmed these sites as key assembly and staging points for …

An FCT High Court has refused to stop the January 1, 2026, start date for the implementation of the new tax regime recently endorsed by President Bola Tinubu. The Incorporated Trustees of African Initiative for Abuse of Public Trust had brought the suit seeking an interlocutory injunction against the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Attorney General of the …

Former heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital following the road accident in which two young men, Lateef Ayodele and Cina Gami, lost their lives on December 29, 2025. The governments of Lagos State and Ogun State, in a joint statement issued on Wednesday, again commiserated with the families of the deceased, describing the incident as tragic …

As someone from Northern Nigeria, a region that bears the heaviest burden of out of school children, deep poverty, rising insecurity, and vast but underutilised agricultural potential, it is clear that the North does not need slogans or recycled promises, all we need is competence, sincerity, and measurable leadership. The North today has the highest number of out of school …

Peter Obi, former presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has officially defected to the coalition-backed African Democratic Congress (ADC). The ex-Anambra governor announced the decision on Tuesday at an event held at the Nike Lake Resort, Enugu. “We are ending this year with the hope that in 2026 we will begin a rescue journey,” Obi said. “We will resist …

The post criticises the Sultan of Sokoto for remaining silent after a US airstrike on 25 December 2025 targeted ISIS camps in the region, killing multiple terrorists according to AFRICOM reports, implying his complicity by contrasting it with his usual vocal stance on perceived insults to Islam. It includes a satirical cartoon juxtaposing the Sultan’s loud condemnations of blasphemy and …

Ten states are planning to source about N4.287tn from loans, bonds, grants, capital receipts, and public-private partnerships to finance capital projects in their 2026 budgets. Collectively, the states, including Lagos, Abia, Ogun, Enugu, Osun, Delta, Sokoto, Edo, Bayelsa, and Gombe, presented budgets totalling N14.174tn to lawmakers. An analysis of these budgets by The PUNCH shows that these states are increasingly …

Nigeria’s counter-terrorism war has entered a dangerous new phase as security forces confirm that Boko Haram and Islamic State fighters are fleeing their hideouts and dispersing across multiple regions following recent United States airstrikes. Senior military sources say intelligence units are actively tracking the movements of the fleeing militants, raising fears that the terrorists may regroup, cross borders, or melt …