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Despite Nigeria recording its seventh consecutive month of disinflation, economists and financial analysts have raised concerns that the easing inflation trend has brought little or no relief to Nigerians and households already overwhelmed by high living costs and economic hardship. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported that headline inflation slowed to 16.05 per cent in October 2025, down from …

I thank the thousands of loyalists, supporters and members of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Ila/Ifedayo/Boluwaduro Federal Constituency of the State of Osun who, on Tuesday, trooped out to receive me and the party hierarchy in the country as we visited the area to kick off the inauguration of party officials and structures across the nine federal constituencies of …

Amina Hassan, the distraught wife of the vice principal of Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School Gada in Kebbi State, has recounted how the bandits killed her husband during the kidnapping of 25 schoolgirls from a nearby school. SaharaReporters earlier reported that the Kebbi State Police Command confirmed that no fewer than 25 students were abducted from the Government Girls Comprehensive …

A major attempt to alter the Senate Standing Orders widely interpreted as a move to strengthen the eligibility of incumbent presiding officers to seamlessly return to the same office in the next Assembly suffered a dramatic setback on Tuesday after a pushback and procedural concerns raised on the floor. The proposed amendments, sponsored by Senate Leader Michael Opeyemi Bamidele (Ekiti …

, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, has described the recent killings of Christians in Nigeria as a “genocide wearing the mask of chaos.” Fox News reports that Waltz made the comment on Tuesday at an event hosted by the United States Mission to the United Nations. “There is a body of evidence, and you are going …

The newly elected National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ini Ememobong, has condemned the police for firing tear gas canisters directly at party officials and journalists during Tuesday’s confrontation at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja. Speaking on Politics Today on Channels Television, on Tuesday Ememobong said the party had anticipated resistance ahead of its planned inaugural National …

The presidency on Tuesday accused Tanimu Turaki, the new factional chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), of committing “high treason” punishable by death for inviting American President Donald Trump to intervene in Nigerian democracy following the crisis rocking the opposition party. Bayo Onanuga, spokesperson for President Bola Tinubu, in a post on X on Tuesday, shared the video of …

Abuja was thrown into turmoil on Tuesday as the ongoing leadership battle within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) exploded into outright mayhem at the party’s national headquarters in Wadata Plaza. Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike, a key figure in one of the warring factions, was forced to make a hasty exit from the building amid clouds of tear gas …

In a resounding endorsement of democratic order and party legitimacy, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has officially recognized the authentic National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by National Chairman Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN) as the sole valid leadership. INEC has categorically rejected a spurious letter from expelled claimants of Acting National Chairman of the …

The Yoruba socio-cultural group, Ìgbìnmó Májékóbájé Ilé-Yorùbá has called on President Bola Tinubu to resign, accusing him of failing to respond decisively to the abduction of 25 female students from Government Girls’ Secondary School, Mega, in Kebbi State. The organisation said the President’s alleged silence and slow response to both the abductions and the recent killing of Brigadier-General Uba by …