•Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde has stressed that the country’s Gross domestic product (GDP) is growing but he is curious to know if Nigerians can feel the growth. Governor Makinde asked this critical question in “The Business of Governance”, his newsletter for August 2026. “I thought it would be […]...
•Nigerian passport The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has deployed a dedicated Passport Intervention Team to the United Kingdom aimed at facilitating the processing and issuance of pending, new, and renewal passport applications for Nigerians in the UK. As part of ongoing efforts to further ease and streamline passport applications for Nige...
•The convicts, Kingsley Ndifon and Emmanuel Akong Two Nigerians have been sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment each by a Ghanaian court for trafficking fellow Nigerians into Ghana under the guise of offering them jobs before allegedly forcing them into cybercrime. The suspects, Kingsley Ndifon, 29, and Emmanuel Akong, 25, were found guilty of h...
•Washington DC Capitol dome detail with waving US flag The United States Department of Justice has launched what it described as the largest coordinated effort in its history to revoke the citizenship of naturalised Americans, targeting individuals from 17 countries accused of obtaining US citizenship through fraud, concealment or other unlawf...
•Amaechi and Tinubu A former governor of Rivers State and vice presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Rotimi Amaechi, has criticised President Bola Tinubu for dismissing concerns raised by Catholic bishops over the credibility of the 2027 general election. Speaking on Channels Television last night, the former Ministe...
•Atiku and Tinubu Former vice president and African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has challenged the Tinubu-led federal government’s defence of its economic policies, arguing that official statistics cannot outweigh the hardship millions of Nigerians continue to face. In a statement yesterday in Abuja, Atiku...
•VeryDarkMan and Tyla South African singer, Tyla has cancelled her planned concert in Lagos after backlash from Nigerians over the xenophobic attacks against Nigerians and other Africans living in South Africa. Rather than directly address the uproar over the planned concert and the opposition from notable Nigerians like social media activist,...
•Glenn Gibbins A Reform UK councillor has been charged with posting a grossly offensive message on social media after allegedly making a racist comment about Nigerians. Glenn Gibbins, of Sunderland city council, has been charged with the offence under the Communications Act 2003, Northumbria police said. The force said the charge was in relati...
•South African music star Tyla Nigerians on social media have expressed divided opinions over calls to boycott South African singer Tyla’s scheduled concert in Lagos, with many linking the event to renewed outrage over alleged xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa. The backlash followed the announcement of Tyla’s APOP World Tour...
•South African protesters hold sticks and flags while chanting slogans as they march during a demonstration by the “March and March” and Operation Dudula movements The federal government is talking tough over the spate of xenophobic attacks against Nigerians, calling on the South African authorities to take “concrete” action over the developm...

