•Abdullahi and Tinubu The African Democratic Congress (ADC) spokesperson, Bolaji Abdullahi, has said the opposition party’s objective is to remove President Tinubu from power as a necessary step towards rescuing Nigeria from what he described as an unprecedented governance crisis. “It’s solely to get Tinubu out of power. That is the agenda and...
•Peter Obi Former Anambra State governor, Mr. Peter Obi, has raised the alarm over Nigeria’s deepening poverty crisis, saying the country is sliding backwards as politicians remain fixated on power struggles and control of party structures. In a statement, yesterday, Obi said about 141 million Nigerians, 62 percent of the population, are now l...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee investigating the power sector reforms and expenditure from 2007 to 2024 has summoned the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), the Budget Office of the Federation, the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Power, and th...
•Kabiru Tanimu Turaki The newly elected chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kabiru Turaki, SAN, has pledged to ensure that power returns to the Nigerian people, while urging the judiciary to uphold the tenets of democracy. Turaki, while giving his acceptance speech after the swearing-in of new officers at the end of the Elective [&...
•Power transmission line Labour unions in the public utilities sector and a coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have called for the reversal of all privatisations in Nigeria’s electricity, water, and waste management sectors, insisting that the policies have failed to serve the public interest. The demand was contained in a communi...
•Madagascar soldiers An elite military unit told our correspondent today it had taken power in Madagascar after the national assembly voted to impeach President Andry Rajoelina for desertion of duty. •Deposed President Andry Rajoelina The 51-year-old president had refused growing demands to step down, going into hiding after weeks of anti-gove...
•Gas flaring in Nigeria Between 2021 and 2024, Nigeria wasted over 817,000 mmscf of gas through flaring, equivalent to losing more than 23 trillion litres of potential energy, BudgIT Nigeria has disclosed. The loss of gas through flaring, various analysts told our correspondent, could have generated over 110,000 GWh of electricity, enough t...
Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, has raised an alarm over its rising energy expenditure, revealing that it spends nearly ₦4 billion annually on electricity to keep the institution running. Vice Chancellor, Professor Adamu Ahmed, described the situation as “crippling and unsustainable” during a press conference held at the Senate Building ...
•House of Reps member, Yusuf Gadgi A House of Representatives member, Yusuf Gadgi, has opposed calls for state police, warning that governors cannot be trusted with the control of policing in the states. Gadgi, who chairs the House Committee on Defence, spoke on Channels Television last night . The lawmaker maintained that community policing w...
•Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State Governor Malam Dikko Umaru Radda of Katsina State has announced a three-week medical leave to address health concerns. A statement by Bala Salisu Zango, the state Commissioner for Information and Culture, today said Radda would begin his medical leave on Monday August 18, 2025. The governor expressed grat...
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