THE minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake has declared that Nigeria’s mining sector is shifting from informal extraction to structured industrialization under President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, with reforms driving over $800 million in processing investments and ₦68.1 billion in 2025 revenue.

“Go to the polling centres with your bottles and jerry cans of kerosene. Either they do what is right, or we all die there. So there will be no beneficiary”

The Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, has withdrawn the licences of five underperforming Private Sector Participation, PSP, operators and realigned waste collection routes in some parts of Lagos State.

Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti South Senatorial District have announced Senate spokesman, Adeyemi Adaramodu, as the consensus candidate for the 2027 polls.

“We have worked hard to ensure that the AFCON is held in East Africa, and our commitment remains unwavering. I am confident that we will organise a very successful AFCON in these three countries,” Motsepe said.

The cleric stressed that while politicians are welcome in the church, the altar is not a platform for political expression.

Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume (Borno South) has hailed the Federal Government and the troops of the Joint Task Force (North East) Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) in the fight against insurgents which led to the rescue of some of the 416 people, mostly women and children abducted by suspected Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists in Ngoshe village, Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State.

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe has told AFP he will remain “tough” on the issue of athletes switching nationality after his federation blocked a bid by top Jamaicans and Kenyans to move to Turkey.

Lagos State Deputy Governor Dr Obafemi Hamzat’s governorship ambition received a significant boost as the leadership of the State Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and its counterpart, the Trade Union Congress, TUC, expressed their support for his candidacy in the 2027 poll in Lagos.

“God is not going to sit in heaven scratching His mighty head with His everlasting hand, saying who should rule Nigeria in 2027″

According to him, members of his political camp have been directed to avoid online confrontations and instead engage opponents with facts and issues.

Whether ADC can win the political war of 2027 is the question before Nigeria

Gunmen on Friday killed four persons, including a pregnant woman and injured four others in an attack on a mining site in Mazat community, Ropp District of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State.

All three judges ruled 27–30 in favour of Efe at the Chaos in the Ring 4 event held at the Balmoral Hall, Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Supporters of former governors of Anambra and Kano states, Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso, are set to hold a unity summit in Abuja on Saturday, in a move seen as part of efforts to align political interests ahead of the 2027 elections.