By Abdul Mahmud This new year scarcely requires a seer to reveal its gravity. It stands as a decisive threshold for both Nigeria’s political class and the country itself. As the final full year before the 2027 general election, it unfolds within an atmosphere markedly defined not by open contestation but by cooptation, not by…
A federal high court sitting in Abuja has restrained the Inspector General of Police from reinstating the democratically elected, but suspended chairmen of the 17 Local Goernment Areas of Plateau. The court was ruling on an ex parte motion filed by the Plateau state government urging it to prevent the police from giving vent to…
The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Oladayo Amao has constituted a committee of serving and retired senior officers of the Nigerian Airforce (NAF) to conduct a safety audit of all its operational and engineering units. This was disclosed in a statement on Tuesday by the NAF Director of Public Relations and Information…
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) has ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its ongoing nationwide strike. ASUU has been on strike since February 14 to press home the demand for improved funding for universities, a review of salaries for lecturers, among other issues. Several meetings between ASUU and the federal government have…
The Unified Nigerian Youth Forum (UFNYF) has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to investigate alleged non-completion of a N57 billion contract awarded to Senator Athan Achonu, governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Imo State. Addressing a news conference on…
The General Secretary of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), Rev. Yunusa Nmadu has said that Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s recent admission that terrorists were running a parallel government in Kaduna state was an “admittance of failure coming a little too late”. Speaking in an interview with journalists in Kaduna, Nmadu said the Christian Association of…
