•Chairman, Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, Taiwo Oyedele Amid rising public anxiety over the ongoing tax reforms, Chairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, Mr. Taiwo Oyedele, yesterday dismissed fears that the government plans to deduct money directly from bank accounts, insisting that such cla...
•Shallipopi Nigerian Afrobeats musician, Crown Uzama, popularly known as Shallipopi, has been named TikTok’s 2025 Artiste of the Year. This is contained in a statement by TikTok and made available today in Lagos. The TikTok Awards for Sub-Saharan Africa, which was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, was with the theme: ‘New Era, New Icons’. Ac...
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has issued an advisory on new vulnerabilities in ChatGPT that could expose users to data-leakage attacks. According to the advisory, researchers discovered seven vulnerabilities affecting GPT-4o and GPT-5 models that allow attackers to manipulate ChatGPT through indirect prompt inj...
Detty December in Nigeria has always been a season of movement: airports buzzing, events fully booked, and city centres filled with returning diaspora and holiday seekers. But this year, something seems to have shifted as the once-thriving shortlet apartment sector, especially in Lagos and Abuja, is losing its shine as travellers are in utter ...
•Bandits Nigerians in diaspora under the aegis of Save Nigeria Group USA, have rallied against the alleged killing of Christians in the country, calling on the US President, Donald Trump, to take immediate action against perpetrators of the religious freedom violations. The protesters, who thronged the US Capitol, yesterday, in solidarity to m...
•Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan Senator Natasha Akpoti has emerged as the most searched Nigerian in Google’s 2025 Year in Search report. She topped a list driven by major political events, cultural moments and national conversations. According to Google, the Kogi Central lawmaker drew “unprecedented public interest” as Nigerians turned to Sea...
•Blackout The House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee investigating Nigeria’s power sector reforms and expenditure between 2007 and 2024 has laid strong blame on electricity distribution companies (DisCos) for the persistent poor power supply that Nigerians endure despite steadily rising electricity bills. At the committee’s hearing yesterda...
•2face and Natasha Nigerian music icon Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2face, has spoken publicly for the first time since the controversy involving him and his wife, Edo State lawmaker Natasha Osawaru, began trending online. In a short message posted on his Instagram Story today — now deleted — the singer wrote, “Help me.” This […]...
•Port Harcourt Refinery The four federal government owned refineries operated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) remained shut and did not record any Premium Motor Spirit production throughout the month of October. This was revealed in a newly released factsheet by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulato...
•Obasanjo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that Nigerians have the right to seek help from the international community if the government fails in its constitutional duty to protect them. Obasanjo stated this yesterday during the 2025 Plateau Unity Christmas Carol, held at the Ten Commandments Altar in Jos, where he attended as a spe...

