By Joseph Kwewum By 2050, Nigeria’s population is projected to rise dramatically, with estimates placing the figure between 350 million and 400 million, and possibly as high as 500 million. Such growth would cement the country’s status as one of the most populous nations in the world. However, rapid population expansion inevitably brings complex challenges,…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, struck out the terrorism charge filed against the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The court also discharged and acquitted the embattled leader of the proscribed group. The appellate court in a judgment by a three-member panel held that Kanu’s extradition from…
The Labour Party (LP) in Kaduna state has nominated former President of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), Hon. Jonathan Asake, as its governorship candidate for the 2023 elections. Asake, a former member of House of Representatives member, recently resigned his position as the SOKAPU President to join the governorship race. He picked the party’s…
A butcher, Usman Buda, has been killed over alleged blasphemy in Sokoto. According to TheCable, Buda was stoned to death by an angry mob over remarks considered to be an insult to Prophet Muhammad. The incident was said to have occurred on Sunday at the Sokoto abattoir. Confirming the incident in a statement on Sunday,…
By Shu’aibu Usman Leman “NGE and NUJ Chasing Shadows,” an opinion piece by Jide Oluwajuyitan published in The Nation newspaper on 14 April 2026, presents a critical assessment of Nigeria’s major media professional bodies, arguing that they are increasingly preoccupied with reactive institutional responses rather than engaging the deeper structural crises confronting journalism in the…
A new association for legal practitioners in Nigeria, known as, Law Society of Nigeria (LSN) has been established. The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), founded in 1933, had been the only professional body regulating legal practitioners in Nigeria. The new association, according to reports by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), is led by Kunle Ogunba,…
