•Military training and Defence minister, General Christopher Musa (rtd) The Minister of Defence, Gen. Christopher Musa (rtd), has proposed that every Nigerian should undergo military training to better understand the demands and sacrifices involved in protecting the country. Musa made the proposal while speaking on the African Leadership Podca...
•Tinubu jets out President Bola Tinubu has been chided for not handing over power to Vice President Kashim Shettima after spending more than 21 days abroad on working leave. Oyo State governor and presidential candidate of the Allied People’s Movement (APM), Seyi Makinde, stated this yesterday at the North-West town hall meeting organised by t...
•Tinubu jets out President Bola Tinubu has extended his annual vacation to Europe. Presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga announced this in a statement issued tonight. The presidential spokesman who said the president would return to the country at the weekend, did not give any reason for the development. “President Tinubu will return to Nigeria...
•Commandant-General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Abubakar Ahmed Audi and a survivor Dauda Shehu Some of the suspected illegal miners who shared same detention facility with the 37 suspects who died in custody have recounted their experience. At least 37 suspected illegal miners who were arrested by operatives of the Niger...
•Scene of the accident A tanker loaded with 45,000 litres of Premium Motor Spirit overturned at Isimi, Epe, Lagos State, today, spilling its contents onto the roadway. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency disclosed this in a statement signed by its Permanent Secretary, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu. The agency said no life was lost and no inj...
•Traffic brought to a standstill Traffic congestion has intensified along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway following the fall of a trailer conveying a container on the Kara Bridge, forcing a total closure of the bridge outward Lagos. •Scene of the incident The incident, which occurred today afternoon, has brought traffic to a standstill on the Lag...
•Troops Security agencies have heightened surveillance around schools, NYSC orientation camps, places of worship and other vulnerable locations following intelligence indicating plans by terrorists to launch coordinated attacks across the country. The Nigeria Police Force, in a security alert circulated to its formations nationwide, warned of ...
•Late Bamanga Tukur Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bamanga Tukur, has died at the age of 90. Tukur died today, Saturday, September 12, 2026, according to a statement issued by his family and signed by his son, Awwal D. Tukur. The family described the former PDP chairman as its “beloved father and […]
Nigerians who invested millions of naira in an online investment platform known as PXES are counting their losses after the scheme abruptly stopped paying returns and became inaccessible. It was gathered that the platform stopped paying participants in early September, with investors who committed sums ranging from tens of thousands of Naira t...
•Aviation minister, Festus Keyamo and MMIA, Lagos The Federal Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development used the sum of N522,490,349 to purchase guns and ammunition that were not delivered. The accusation was contained in the Auditor-General for the Federation’s 2024 Annual Report on Non-Compliance and Internal Control Weaknesses in Mini...

