Pipeline surveillance contracts: Coalition defends Okunbo, PINL, calls for evidence-based review
The Coalition of Civil Society Organisations for Good Governance (CCSOGG) has called for an evidence-based assessment of pipeline surveillance contracts in the Niger Delta, urging stakeholders to avoid unverified claims capable of undermining critical national security operations. The coalition, at a press briefing in Lagos, also defended Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited (PINL) and its Project […]
Fidelity Bank gets fresh NGX extension over delayed H1’26 audited results
By Chukwunonso OkoloFidelity Bank Plc has disclosed that the Nigerian Exchange Limited, NGX, has approved a further extension of time for the publication of its Audited Financial Statements, AFS, for the half year ended June 30, 2026.This was contained in a statement signed by the bank’s Company Secretary, Ezinwa Unuigboje, and made available to shareholders, […]
Overhaul security, cut food, transport costs – NSCIA to FG
The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, has called on the Federal Government to overhaul Nigeria’s security architecture and urgently reduce the cost of food and transportation.
Insecurity: Nigeria in state of war, TUC laments
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) on Wednesday lamented that the country has been in a state of war for over a decade due to insecurity, declaring that kidnapping remains a booming business for criminal elements.
FG releases 8-month consolidated allowance to non-academic staff
…moves to avert fresh crisis in tertiary institutions By Joseph Erunke, Abuja The Federal Government has released eight months’ arrears of the Consolidated Non-Academic Staff Tertiary Institutions Allowance, CONTA, to non-academic workers in federal universities, polytechnics and colleges of education, in a move aimed at strengthening industrial harmony and preventing disruptions in the nation’s tertiary […]
66 years on, Nigeria must escape the fragility trap, by Olu Fasan
How fragile is Nigeria? That is one question Nigerian leaders don’t want to confront. Indeed, it irks them when anyone says that Nigeria is a fragile state. What’s more, some Nigerians, out of sheer romantic or sentimental patriotism hate it when the word “fragility” is used to describe Nigeria. It is unpatriotic, they reckon, for […]
