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By Farooq Kperogi IN Vice President Kashim Shettima’s caustic barbs at former Vice President Atiku Abubakar during the inauguration of the APC Presidential Campaign Council in Abuja on October 14, many Nigerians see an aggressively disagreeable putdown of a political opponent. I see an opportunity to introduce Nigerians to a time-honored, culturally sanctioned, ritualised joking […]

The Senate on Tuesday passed two amendment bills seeking to protect and develop Nigeria’s local manufacturing and processing industries and align procurement practices with evolving international standards. The bills, sponsored by the Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, are the Raw Materials Research and Development Council Act (Amendment) Bill, 2026, and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and […]

The trial of former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, and three others over an alleged ₦19.4 billion fraud was stalled on Monday at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, following the absence of prosecution counsel for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The matter had been scheduled for the defence to cross-examine […]

France has been hit by some of its most destructive unrest in years after nationwide protests over the rising cost of living, fuel prices, declining public services and deteriorating school conditions turned violent in several major cities. Police and protesters clashed on Saturday in Paris, Marseille, Toulouse, Angers and Lyon, with officers deploying tear gas […]

By Farooq Kperogi Wherever Nigerians congregate in the diaspora, conversations about our country almost invariably gravitate toward electricity. That was what happened after I delivered a keynote address at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on October 1. The Nigerians I met there agreed with me that perhaps the greatest incubator of poverty and […]

The State Security Service has secured another major conviction in its prosecution of kidnapping and terrorism-related offences after the Adamawa State High Court sentenced three men to death over the kidnapping of two Catholic priests in February 2025. Delivering judgment on Thursday, Justice Christopher Mapeo found Taledo Demiel, Namomai Medan and Mikaila Yusuf guilty of […]

The Federal Government has confirmed a case of Ebola virus disease in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), involving a woman who recently arrived in Nigeria on an international flight from Uganda. The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, following […]

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has directed that businessman and social media influencer Afolabi Michael Kazeem, popularly known as KC Luxury, be returned to the hospital after he was brought to court in an ambulance while receiving oxygen. Justice Musa Kakaki gave the directive on Friday after a nurse attending to Kazeem informed […]

Tension erupted at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday after African Action Congress presidential candidate and activist Omoyele Sowore confronted a lawyer who allegedly referred to him as a “tout” shortly before proceedings commenced in his ongoing trial over alleged cyberbullying of President Bola Tinubu. The lawyer, identified in reports simply as Yakubu, […]

Nigerians have raised concerns over photographs appearing in the preliminary voters’ register published by the Independent National Electoral Commission, with some social media users alleging that certain images appear to have been generated using Artificial Intelligence. The controversy emerged shortly after INEC made the preliminary register for the 2027 general elections available online following public […]

Nigeria will introduce taxes on fuel products only when the economy has stabilised and Nigerians’ income levels have improved sufficiently to absorb the additional cost, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Taiwo Oyedele, has said. Oyedele made the disclosure during an interview on the sidelines of the 2026 International Monetary Fund […]

The National Chairman of Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatis Sunnah (JIBWIS), Sheikh Abdullahi Bala Lau, has disowned a man seen in a viral video wearing the organisation’s First Aid Group uniform while making threats of violence against Enugu State. Bala Lau also called on the State Security Service (SSS) and the Nigeria Police Force to […]