By Godwin Oritse The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Apapa Area Command, yesterday reaffirmed its strategic role in revenue mobilisation and trade facilitation as the Zonal Coordinator, Zone A, Assistant Comptroller-General of Customs, Mohammed Babandede, commended the Command’s 2025 operational achievements during a familiarisation visit. Addressing officers during the visit, the Zonal Coordinator said his engagement […]

High Chief Nathan Ofoma, a top-ranking Biafran army veteran and one of the foot soldiers of the Biafran war Lord and Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu has passed on.

The Africa Development Studies Centre (ADSC), in its research findings on Abuja gridlock has said there’s urgent need for investment and administrative decentralization to curb the menace in the Federal Capital Territory FCT. This was contained in a statement issued by ADSC’s President, Sir, Victor Oluwafemi on Wednesday where he noted that he issued this […]

By Kingsley Omonobi ABUJA—The Nigeria Police Force has uncovered and dismantled an international cyber scam centre operating in Agbor, Delta State, arresting seven suspects allegedly involved in large-scale online investment fraud targeting victims in Nigeria, the United Kingdom and other countries. The Force Headquarters disclosed on Thursday that the operation was carried out by the […]

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—The trial of Ali Bello, nephew of former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello, took a dramatic turn yesterday as the Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the DSS and Nigeria Police Force to investigate a court registrar for allegedly tampering with evidence. Bello faces a 10-count charge over alleged complicity in a […]

By Progress Godfrey The Federal Government has signed a cooperation agreement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to speed up the delivery of bankable infrastructure projects and mobilise private capital critical to Nigeria’s economic transformation. The agreement, signed in Abuja on Wednesday, had the Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu; the Minister […]

The Naira yesterday appreciated to N1,446 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,450 per dollar on Wednesday. However, the naira recorded its first depreciation this week in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market, NFEM, to N1,368 per dollar.

Nigeria’s compact SUV segment is witnessing intense competition, and one model fast emerging as a standout is the Jetour Dashing

With Afrobeat now formally recognized by the Recording Academy, the focus is no longer only on where the sound came from, but on who is shaping where it goes next

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), in collaboration with the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has hosted a Food Safety Summit in Lagos to promote improved food safety practices across Nigeria’s agricultural and food supply chain.

The National Youth Council of Nigeria NYCN has declared support for the ongoing reforms at the Energy Commission of Nigeria ECN, describing them as youth-friendly.

When President Bola Tinubu returned to Abuja a month ago after a prolonged holiday in Paris and brief stopover at a summit in Abu Dhabi, a newspaper headline sardonically announced that the “Nigerian Ambassador to France pays his first official visit to Nigeria in 2026”. Tinubu, frequently criticised for his frequent sojourns in foreign locations, France […]

By ABDULMALIK ADAMS Imagine a man who rises from the bustling streets of Ibadan, Akure and Abuja armed with nothing but unyielding determination and a passion for justice, to become a beacon of hope for the oppressed across Nigeria. This is the electrifying story of Olukayode Abraham Ajulo, OON, SAN—better known as Kayode Ajulo—a trailblazing Nigerian […]

Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger – three rogue states that have formed an Alliance of Sahelian States, AES, to resist external pressure from ECOWAS on military rule – have just won the biggest diplomatic jackpot beyond their wildest imagination.  Not even a sorcerer would have guessed that, as a reward for their delinquency, this trio would […]

By OTEGA OGRA On the surface, the 2026 World Customs Organisations Technology Conference in Abu Dhabi in the last week of January 2026, followed a familiar script. Flags, formal sessions, carefully worded speeches. But beneath the choreography, something more consequential was unfolding. As Customs chiefs and trade officials compared notes on the future of borders, Nigeria […]