President Bola Tinubu has called for a fresh continental offensive against the exploitation of Africa’s critical mineral resources, demanding an end to the export of raw minerals and a coordinated strategy to keep more of the wealth generated by the continent’s resources in Africa.
Nigeria is set to renew its campaign for permanent representation on the United Nations Security Council as Vice-President Kashim Shettima leads the country’s engagements at the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has opened a fresh probe into the controversial Mambilla Hydroelectric Power Project, with a $500,000 payment made by project promoter Leno Adesanya to Jennifer Douglas, former wife of ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, emerging as one of the key transactions under scrutiny.
The Federal Government has urged the Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss the ₦1 billion fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, over the search of his Abuja residence by operatives of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission.
The Plateau State Government has imposed an immediate dusk-to-dawn curfew on three local government areas following a fresh wave of attacks that reportedly left several people dead and heightened tension across affected communities.
Few hours after it secured an Appeal Court judgement restoring its registration, the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) has suffered a set-back as its leadership on Sunday clashed with the Obi-Kwankwaso Movement.
The political battle over the structure and beneficiaries of the emerging 2027 pro-Tinubu coalition has intensified, with some states beginning to respond to the public tiff between Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, and APC state governors over the structure for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election in 2027.
Nigeria will, on Monday, September 21, return to the FTSE Russell Frontier Market universe, ending a three-year period in which its equities were excluded from the global index provider’s frontier-market classification.
The recent report for the outgoing financial year by the Auditor-General of the Federation, Mr. Shaakaa Chira, has not only exposed the high level of impunity and audacity of ministries and agencies when it comes to financial corruption but also the apparent helplessness, if not complicity, by the government itself.
