The Citizens Whistleblowers Coalition (CWC) has expressed concern over alleged efforts by a foreign shipping company and its Nigerian subsidiary to undermine Nigeria’s judicial system and sovereignty. Speaking at a news conference in Port Harcourt yesterday, Mr Owhonda Nwakanma, Project Officer for Socio-Economic Rights at CWC, called on the f...
•Governor Adeleke and President Tinubu The crisis over the control of local government councils in Osun State between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) has boiled over, with the state government dragging the Tinubu-led federal government to the Supreme Court for allegedly seizing the monthly allocations...
•Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo and Nigerian passports Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, says more than 200, 000 unprocessed passport application backlogs have been cleared since he assumed office at the Ministry of Interior. He revealed this while delivering a charge to the public and private sector at the Access Bank Guest Lecture Series (GLS) h...
•Students writing WAEC with torchlights at night The Federal Ministry of Education has condemned an incident of candidates writing the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) at night using torchlights. The Minister of State for Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, expressed his displeasure in a statement issued yesterday in Abuja b...
•Natasha The legal team of suspended Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has received a formal summons in the case filed against her by the Federal Government at the Federal Capital Territory High Court last week. On Friday, May 16, 2025, the federal government filed the suit, marked CR/297/25, over alleged defamatory remarks made d...
•Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN The federal government has revealed how Nigeria was saved from $11 billion scam engineered by Process and Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID), describing the landmark victory in a UK court as a turning point in the fight against corruption and economi...
The Supreme Court has struck out a suit by the 36 states’ governments and the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) challenging the federal government’s application of recovered looted funds. In a judgment today, a seven-member panel of the Supreme Court was unanimous in holding that the suit was wrongly instituted before the apex court, reports The ...
•Natasha and Akpabio The federal government has instituted a suit against the senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, over alleged defamatory remarks made on live television. The suit filed before the Federal Capital Territory High Court on May 16, 2025, has Akpoti-Uduaghan as the sole defendant, reports Channels TV. The go...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has called on the federal government to rescue Nigerians living in Saudi Arabia affected by the recent labour and immigration reforms introduced by the Saudi authorities. The call followed the adoption of a motion on urgent public importance moved by Rep. Muhammad Bello Shehu (NNPP, Kano) ...
The federal government has announced a cash reward of N5m for information that could lead to the recapture of the seven inmates who escaped from the Medium Custodial Centre, Ilesha, Osun State yesterday. Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Correctional Service NCoS, DCC Abubakar Umar disclosed this in a statement issued today in Abuja. He...

