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The Special Adviser on Security Matters to Sokoto State Governor Ahmed Aliyu, Col. Ahmed Usman (retd.), has appealed to political leaders, traditional institutions, religious leaders and residents to close ranks in the fight against banditry, insisting that insecurity should not be reduced to partisan politics.

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof. Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, has called on Nigerians to reject division, intolerance and violence as the country approaches another electoral season. Yilwatda made the call in a message commemorating Eid-ul-Mawlid, the annual celebration of the birth of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, in his goodwill message to Muslims across Nigeria.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered a disturbing mix of traditional and increasingly sophisticated methods being employed by drug traffickers across Nigeria, arresting a 101-year-old great-grandmother allegedly involved in retail cannabis dealing and intercepting cocaine concealed inside edible cassava flour popularly known as fufu.

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) wants INEC to state whether it has exercised its statutory power to limit political contributions under the Electoral Act, 2026, and immediately publish any limits prescribed for individuals, political parties and...

The National Coordinator and Executive Director of the National Brands Development and Made in Nigeria Special Project Office, George Buchi Nwabueze, has launched a strong defence of the controversial outfit, dismissing the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission’s (ICPC) description of it as a “fake agency”.

When the federal government announced last week that removal of petrol subsidy had generated an estimated ₦15.8 trillion in savings between June 2023 and December 2025, the figure was presented as further evidence that Nigeria's painful economic reforms were working. It is, unquestionably, a significantly large number.

According to the delegation, co-led by IRI President Daniel Twining and Ambassador Jendayi Frazer, a board member of the National Endowment for Democracy, NED, and former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Nigeria retains important foundations for democratic competition, including an established electoral institution and a multi-party system but political consolidation by the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, opposition fragmentation, election-related violence, monetised political competition and declining public trust are weakening the foundations built for democratic competition, established electoral institutions, an active civil society and a multi-party system.

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s latest Open Market Operations (OMO) auction has pushed short-term fixed-income yields back into focus, with investors submitting N4.93 trillion in bids for securities worth just N600 billion.

Nigeria’s top policymakers, financial regulators, banking executives, fintech innovators, economists and capital market operators will gather in Lagos on September 19 and 20, 2026, for the Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria’s (FICAN) 36th Anniversary Annual Conference.

Nigeria’s equities market recorded a 57 per cent return in the first seven months of 2026, but the rally was driven predominantly by domestic capital rather than a resurgence in foreign portfolio investment, Managing Director of Coronation Asset Management, Aigbovbioise Aig-Imoukhuede, has said.