A former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo has said he and the Federal Executive Council, FEC, did not grant any contract approval to Sunrise Power and Transmission Company Limited, the company that lifted the Mambila Power Project contract. This was revealed on Monday, by the Third Prosecution Witness, PW3, Umar Babangida in the trial of…
A Federal High Court in Lagos, on Monday, presided over by Justice Yellim Bogoro, convicted and sentenced one Solomon Stephen Ufayo, a staff of Ecobank Plc, to one-year imprisonment for cybercrime. The convict was arraigned on Friday, May 16, 2025 by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on…
Hussaini Kafi in Kano and Juliet Jacob Nigeria’s headline inflation rate declined to 22.97% in May 2025, the lowest recorded in five months, according to the latest report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) The Statistician General of the Federation, Prince Adeyemi Adeniran, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja, describing the 0.74 percent decline…
Korede Abdullah in Lagos The Lift Above Poverty Organisation (LAPO) has revealed that it screened no fewer than 240 residents of Edo State for various cancers between January and April 2025. The Executive Vice President, Health and Social Development at LAPO, Honestus Ayo Obadiora, disclosed this in a statement to journalists in Benin City on…
The Federal Government has deployed additional troops to Benue State in response to the latest wave of vicious attack in Yelewata, Guma Local Government Area, which left scores of residents dead. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, disclosed this on Monday in a statement. He said President Bola Tinubu swiftly ordered…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has rescheduled his planned visit to Kaduna State and will instead travel to Benue State on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, in a decisive move aimed at addressing the persistent violence plaguing communities in the state. In a statement issued on Monday by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga,…
President Bola Tinubu says he will clear his schedule to pay a condolence visit to the people of Benue State on Wednesday. “I will adjust my programme and go see Benue people on Wednesday,” Tinubu reportedly said on Monday when he commissioned the Greater Abuja Water Supply Network in the nation’s capital. The President also…
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, revealed on Monday that coordinated attacks by unidentified gunmen have triggered a humanitarian crisis in Benue State, with 6,527 people displaced, including lactating mothers, pregnant women, and elderly persons. NEMA, in a post on X, noted that the most recent attack occurred in the early hours of Saturday at…
A Federal High Court in Abuja presided over by Justice Yusuf Halilu, on Monday granted bail to the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Ifeanyi Emefiele, who was arraigned before the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. According to a press statement issued by the EFCC’s spokesman, Dele…
Abuja, Nigeria’s capital and the seat of federal power, was designed to embody national ambition, modern governance, and equitable development. But within its public health system, a silent humanitarian disaster festers—where lives are lost daily to dysfunction, neglect, and government failure. Despite repeated budget increases, Abuja’s hospitals and primary health centres remain a shadow of…
