•Electricity blackout The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has announced power outage in various parts of Abuja including hotels and diplomatic buildings. The AEDC made the announcement in its verified X handle today. It said it also affected Bolingo Hotel, Wada Maida Building, which houses the headquarters of the News Agency of N...
The federal government has indicated that concerns over ground rent obligations involving several foreign embassies in the Federal Capital Territory will be addressed through established diplomatic processes. Speaking to our correspondent yesterday, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kimiebi Ebienfa, said the matter would be...
•People walk through Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts The U.S. State Department has instructed its diplomatic posts worldwide to “resume processing” visas for Harvard University students and exchange visitors, following a federal judge’s decision to block the Trump administration’s latest restrictions on internati...
•Tinubu and Wike The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project Nigeria has urged President Bola Tinubu to direct the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, to withdraw the threat to shut down 34 foreign embassies in Abuja over ground rent debts. The group’s reaction followed recent revelations by the FCTA that at least ...
•FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike Thirty-four embassies in Abuja risk being closed down by the Federal Capital Territory Administration over unpaid ground rents spanning 11 years. It was however learnt that the opposition Peoples Democratic, Federal Inland Revenue Service and the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, who were...
•Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman The federal government, through the Federal Scholarship Board, has sent payment mandates to foreign embassies where foreign scholars under the federal government’s Bilateral Educational Agreement scholarship are schooling. The BEA scholarship is for the purpose of education exchange between Nigeria an...

