…Being a statement issued today personally signed by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and made available to The Frontier Twenty-one days have come and gone since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu left Nigeria on what the presidency described as a three-week annual vacation. Today, Nigerians are entitled to ask a very simple constitutional...
•Tinubu The Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Foreign Affairs and Protocol, Ademola Osodi, has played down concerns over the president’s third consecutive absence from the United Nations General Assembly. The presidency had yesterday announced that Tinubu mandated Vice President Kashim Shettima to represent him and lead Nige...
•A gavel and Mambilla hydro-power project An international arbitration tribunal under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris has issued an award in favour of Nigeria, rejecting claims totalling $3.38 billion in arbitration instituted over disputes associated with the development of the Mambilla power project in Ta...
•Peter Obi A member of the House of Representatives, Bamidele Salam, has described the Presidential Candidate of the Nigerian Democratic Congress (NDC) for the 2027 general elections, Peter Obi as “a man of integrity and commitment to public good.” Salam, a 10th National Assembly under the Accord Party and Chairman of the House Committee on [&...
Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced a 38-year-old South African woman, Will Jessica Ann, to 25 years in prison for smuggling 5.75 kilogrammes of heroin into Nigeria through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Justice Egwuatu passed the sentence today, stressing that Nigerian law does not respect...
Recent estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) have shown that Nigeria loses about $2.3 billion annually, equivalent to about two per cent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), to the gender gap in agricultural productivity. The UN agency also said closing gender gaps in agricultural productivity and wages...
•Aliko Dangote President of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote, has attributed the high price of petrol in Nigeria partly to the continued smuggling of the commodity to neighbouring countries where it sells for significantly more. Dangote said petrol prices in neighbouring countries were between 30 and 50 per cent higher than in Nigeria...
•Adeyanju and Tinubu An Abuja-based human rights lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, has raised the alarm over the flooding of Nigeria’s market with fake drugs and substandard products, calling on President Tinubu to declare a state of emergency to curb the disturbing development. This is even as he called for the sack of the Director General of […]...
Nigeria’s fragile disinflationary gains face renewed pressure as a resurgence in global crude oil prices, driven by escalating military conflicts in the Middle East and disruptions around the strategic Strait of Hormuz, threatens to push up energy and transportation costs. Analysts and investors are increasingly concerned that crude oil prices...
Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria closed a net 476 branches and cash centres between 2022 and 2025, reducing their physical footprint by 8.8 per cent in three years, according to data from the Central Bank of Nigeria. Figures contained in the CBN’s 2025 Statistical Bulletin for the Financial Sector showed that the number of bank […]
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