Mixed reactions have trailed the decision of the PDP chairmanship candidate in the Saturday FCT area council election, Mr Julius Adamu, to step down for his APC opponent, Mr Joshua Ishaku. Some residents, who expressed their views in separate interviews with our correspondent today in Bwari, said they were worried about true democracy, while o...
•Tinubu and Nigeria Governors’ Forum Many state governments appear to be still weighing their options on local government financial autonomy, following the recent threat by President Bola Tinubu that he may be compelled to issue an Executive Order to ensure direct allocations to the councils. Only a handful of states claim they have comm...
•Miss Comfort Emmanson being dragged out of the plane Mixed reactions have trailed videos circulating on X showing an altercation between a female passenger, identified as Ms. Comfort Emmanson, and Ibom Air officials. Emmanson had reportedly attacked her victims yesterday upon arriving Lagos airport from Uyo after she was allegedly told to swi...
•National Universities Commission headquarters In a significant policy change, the National Universities Commission (NUC) has prohibited professional bodies from carrying out accreditation exercises in Nigerian universities. This decision reflects the NUC’s assertion of its statutory role as the sole accrediting authority for academic programm...
•Car with tinted glass If the yearly renewal of tinted permits is scaled through, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) will generate billions of Naira for the government. In April 2025, following a directive from the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, the NPF announced the resumption of the issuance of tinted glass permits across the cou...
•Tinubu The scrapping of the Niger Delta Ministry raised mixed reactions in the polity, yesterday, with a host of Niger Delta leaders and activists kicking against the move as the federal government explained that the ministry was renamed and not scrapped. Elder Statesman and Ijaw Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, said Niger Delta people would not [&...
•Power minister, Adelabu Adelabu One year after he was appointed Minister of Power, mixed reactions have trailed his handling of the sector with consumers insisting that not much has changed in terms of power supply. Assigned on August 21, 2023 to superintend over the power sector that has gulped over N6 trillion of public funds […]

