•Tinubu The Gender Educators Initiative (GEI) has urged the Tinubu-led federal government to move swiftly to secure the safe release of schoolgirls abducted from Government Secondary School, Maga, in Danko-Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State. The organisation described the incident as a tragic reminder of the worsening insecurity that ...
•Minister of Aviation Festus Keyamo and MMIA Lagos The federal government has called for the establishment of indigenous aircraft leasing companies in Nigeria. The announcement was made by the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, who was represented at the 2025 FAAN National Aviation Conference (FNAC) held yesterday, ...
University lecturers have cautioned that a fresh confrontation with the federal government may be unavoidable, citing unfulfilled agreements and what they described as a continued lack of genuine commitment during negotiations. The Abuja Zonal Coordinator of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Adam Al-Amin Abdullahi, sta...
•Tunji-Ojo The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has assured Nigerians that the Private Security Companies Act of 1986 will be revisited and reviewed to reflect current security realities and align with global best practices. Tunji-Ojo made this commitment during the 5th Private Security Industry Summit and the 9th Annual General Meeti...
•Altercation between the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike and a military officer Former military Generals have expressed outrage over Tuesday’s clash between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and a naval officer identified as A. Yerima, over alleged land grabbing. The veterans, in separate interviews with our correspondents ...
•Alcohol in sachets Director-General of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Segun Ajayi-Kadir, has expressed shock and concern over the recent directive issued by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to outrightly ban the production and sale of alcoholic beverages packaged in sachets and small P...
The federal government has cancelled the national policy mandating the use of indigenous languages as the medium of instruction in schools, citing poor performance in public examinations. The government said Nigerian children had been performing abysmally in public examinations as a result of being taught in their mother tongue, reports The Na...
•Nigerian pensioners The Coalition of Federal Pensioners of Nigeria has threatened a nationwide naked protest on November 24, if government fails to pay their outstanding pension increment arrears and palliative allowances. The coalition’s National Chairman, Mr Mukaila Ogunbote, announced this while briefing newsmen in Lagos, yesterday. Ogunbo...
•Single-use plastics The federal government has inaugurated an Inter-Ministerial Committee to drive the implementation of the nationwide ban on single-use plastics (SUPs), signalling a major shift in Nigeria’s environmental management policy and its commitment to global sustainability standards. The Secretary to the Government of the Federatio...
•Tinubu and Amupitan The federal government has remained silent on a 2020 legal brief reportedly written by the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Joash Amupitan, in which he described the Boko Haram insurgency and attacks by Fulani herdsmen as part of a coordinated anti-Christian campaign that warranted in...

