•Floods in Lagos Residents of Ajah, Mafoluku and other flood-prone communities in Lagos have recounted how torrential rainfall yesterday left them stranded, submerged homes and cut off access to major roads. The residents, who spoke with our correspondent today called for urgent government intervention to tackle the recurring flooding blamed o...
•Akara fryer and Oluremi Tinubu The president”s wife, Oluremi Tinubu, has come under criticism on social media after encouraging Nigerians to consider small-scale businesses such as selling akara, roasted corn and kuli-kuli, saying they require little capital to start. She spoke while addressing State House Correspondents after the Renew...
•Tinubu and defunct Nigeria Airways flight A document containing the presidential approval of final entitlement benefits to former workers of Nigeria Airways is allegedly missing. The missing document, it was gathered, is responsible for the delayed payment of the over 6,000 workers of the defunct airline. The federal government, in 2003, had ...
•Workers The Federal Workers Forum (FWF) says it will stage a nationwide protest on Monday to demand an immediate review of workers’ wages and improved welfare. The forum, in a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Mr Andrew Emelieze, today in Abuja, said the proposed protest followed the outcome of an emergency online meeting of [&hel...
•The collapsed storey building 10 persons have been rescued alive so far from the rubble of the collapsed three-storey building in Satellite Town, Lagos. According to a statement signed by the Controller General Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, and made available to The Frontier this afternoon, the Lagos State Fire and Re...
•Nigeria Army military training shooting Nigerian soldiers engaged in counter-insurgency operations in the North-East have expressed concerns over an alleged directive requiring them to work alongside former Boko Haram members who were recently reintegrated into society under the Borno State Government’s deradicalisation programme. Military pe...
•Tinubu, Nigerian Senate and Police The Senate today passed the landmark Constitution Alteration Bill seeking to establish state police across the federation, marking a major step in Nigeria’s decades-long debate over decentralising the country’s policing structure to address worsening insecurity. The passage followed a rigorous clause-by-clau...
•Kwankwaso and Ayodele The vice presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Rabiu Kwankwaso, has threatened Primate Babatunde Elijah Ayodele of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church with a N10 billion damages lawsuit for failure to comply. Kwankwaso’s media aide, Hon. Saifullahi Hassan, posted a statement defending his bos...
•Nigerian Senate After minutes of failed attempts at voting electronically using the installed digital voting devices at the seat of each lawmaker, the Senate, today, opted for an open ballot on the issue of the creation of state police. Recall, the Senate had yesterday reconvened in an emergency plenary seeking to deliberate on an executive [...
•Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Senate floor Nigeria’s push to overhaul its security architecture gathered momentum yesterday as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu transmitted the State Police Bill to the Senate. The Senate will vote on the Bill today. The House of Representatives passed an alteration to the Constitution, taking police from th...

