•Closed Niger-Nigeria border in Jibia A former military commander, Major General Rogers Nicholas (retd.), has said Nigeria cannot overcome its worsening insecurity without urgently securing its borders, warning that the country is facing an existential threat rather than a conventional socio-economic crisis. He made the remarks while appearing...
•AFCON trophy With 15 teams already securing qualification and 24 set to participate, the battle for the remaining nine spots in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations intensifies. The tournament, which will be hosted by Morocco next year, December 2025 to January 2026, as obtained from the CAF website, promises fierce competition as the road [&hellip...
•Deji Adeyanju One of the lawyers to #EndBadGovernance protesters, Deji Adeyanju Esq, yesterday, disclosed that lawyers, under the auspices of Citizens’ Liberties Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, have secured the release of six protesters in Kano State. This came as civil society organisations, numbering 67, yesterday, declared ...
The House of Representatives has rejected a bill seeking to amend sections 134 and 179 of the constitution, which provide the conditions to be elected president and governor, respectively. The bill, which sought to make it mandatory for presidential and governorship candidates to secure more than 50 percent of the total votes cast, to be [&hel...
•Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, has said the military has every reason to ensure a secure country under the current dispensation. Abubakar noted that President Bola Tinubu had provided the military with the needed equipment and resources to deliver on its constitutional mandat...
•Olusegun Obasanjo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said financial impropriety by the previous governments had forced Nigeria into a debt burden the coming generations would have no option but to pay. According to a statement by his Media Aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, the former president made the observation during a meeting with 2023 awardee...

