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The Ministry of Education has launched a probe into the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Simon Ortuanya, for responding to a PREMIUM TIMES Freedom of Information (FOI) request that exposed former Minister of Science and Technology, Geoffrey Nnaji’s certificate forgery. Sources told PREMIUM TIMES that the Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, has set up a panel against …

I had genuinely intended, out of sheer exhaustion and out of respect for the sensitivity of this moment, to refrain from revisiting this saga. But the avalanche of calls, messages, and trembling voices from our people has made silence no longer an option. I am therefore compelled to offer sober introspection, especially as someone who successfully steered this very case …

President Bola Tinubu will travel to the United States to meet President Donald Trump only “when the situation is right,” according to the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris. The minister’s comments follow heightened diplomatic tension between Abuja and Washington after President Trump redesignated Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC). Speaking on Channels Television programme, Idris …

United States federal lawmaker Riley Moore has called for the release of a Nigerian citizen, Sunday Jackson, who was convicted of culpable homicide and sentenced to death by hanging for killing an armed herdsman who violently attacked him on his farmland. Mr Moore, speaking in an interview on Fox News, revealed that there was a positive discussion during the recent …

The Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Ìgbìnmó Májékóbájé Ilé-Yorùbá, has accused Bola Tinubu’s administration of losing control of Nigeria’s security apparatus, amid rising school closures prompted by terrorist attacks and mass abductions. In a statement issued on Saturday by the Union’s Convener, Olusola Badero, and released through its Home Director, Princess Balogun, the group described state government decisions to shut schools as …

The Nigeria Police Force has placed security agencies in Kogi State on a high alert following its intelligence indicating a mass movement of bandits into parts of Kogi East, Kogi State. This is according to an internal police wireless message obtained by SaharaReporters on Saturday. The intelligence, shared by the State Intelligence Department (SID) in Lokoja, revealed that a large …

Archbishop Emeritus of Abuja Catholic Archdiocese, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has said that the government is aware of who is responsible for killings in Nigeria. Cardinal Onaiyekan made the statement on Saturday in an interview on Arise Television He was reacting to the recent wave of killings and abductions in parts of the country. The Archbishop Emeritus stated that nobody can …

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, says the Federal Government has not prosecuted individuals suspected of financing terrorism because the process requires extensive and delicate investigations that cannot be rushed. Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday, Idris explained that contrary to public perception, the matter was not as simple as having a list and immediately …

The Niger State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has revised the number of abducted persons from St. Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary School, Papiri, Agwarra LGA, raising the figure from 227 to 315. The updated tally, released in a fresh statement on Friday by CAN Chairman and Catholic Bishop of Kontagora Diocese, Bulus Yohanna, followed what he …

Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has slammed the United States President, Donald Trump, for threatening to invade Nigeria with the American military over the rising insecurity and alleged Christian genocide in the country. The US President had threatened that he had asked the Defence Department to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria if the Nigerian government “continues to allow the …