In contrast, many African countries, including Nigeria, have inherited fragile states, extractive economies, and deep divisions, which have been exacerbated by global power struggles and internal ...

On May 29, 2023, Tinubu declared that “subsidy is gone.” With those three words, petrol prices more than tripled overnight. Government officials sold it as a bold reform to save the economy. But for ...

Olarinre Salako, a United States-based energy consultant, says President Bola Tinubu’s economic policies — particularly the removal of subsidy and the floating of the naira — have driven 30 million ...

Abdulazeez Adediran, former gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos, has announced his intention to contest the governorship again in the 2027 elections.

Yet, in this hour of despair, a clarion call emerges: the urgent need for state police. No longer can we cling to the fragile illusion of centralized security, a distant federal apparatus that ...

A viral post has claimed that Okezie Ikpeazu, former governor of Abia, has been sentenced to death by hanging for allegedly diverting N1 trillion public funds.

Heineken Lokpobiri, minister of state for petroleum resources (oil), says recent divestments by international oil companies (IOCs) have added about 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) to Nigeria’s crude ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it will assume direct oversight of settlement and trading in the country’s fixed income market ...

The Federal Government of Nigeria recently launched the “Renewed Hope Ward Development Programme”, an idea which has ...

Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), has flagged off lots 1 and 2 of the transformative ‘Light up Abuja’ project, which involves the provision of integrated (hybrid) solar ...

Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has asked the national assembly to fast-track amendments to the electoral legal framework.

Etido Ekpo, serjeant-at-arms at the national assembly, has announced new security restrictions around the office of Senate President Godswill Akpabio.