By Matilda Ikediobi  The pattern is no longer accidental or isolated. It is deliberate, evolving, and deeply troubling. Across the battlefields of Nigeria’s North-East, a war within a war has quietly taken shape, one in which insurgents are no longer content with attacking formations or inflicting casualties on troops alone. Increasingly, they are aiming higher.  Their targets […]

FOR the first time in many years, all degree programmes offered by the University of Benin have been fully accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC).

THE membership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Edo State yesterday swelled in Edo Central, the senatorial district of Governor Monday Okpebholo and vowed to shock the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 general elections in the state.

•Stage a protest in Lagos By Chioma Obinna Medical doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Lagos State chapter, and the Association of Nigerian Private Medical Practitioners, ANPMP, yesterday, in Lagos, staged a rare joint protest, decrying what they described as “persistent harassment, intimidation and unlawful arrests” by government agencies, particularly the police. […]

The leadership crisis rocking the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has escalated into a complex legal and political standoff, with three rival factions advancing competing constitutional claims …

By Adeola Badru Oyo State last week teetered on the brink of a full-blown political crisis, as a combustible mix of impeachment plots, alleged billion-naira inducements, royal intrigue and intra-party rivalry converged in a drama that has shaken the foundations of power in Ibadan, the state capital. At the centre of the storm: Governor Seyi Makinde, Speaker […]

When a Nigerian military jet struck a crowded camp for displaced persons in Rann, Borno State, in January 2017, officials called it a mistake.

The father of two victims abducted Wednesday from a Benue Links bus en route Otukpo has cried out over ransom demands by their captors, who he said are insisting on N9 million for each of his kidnapped children.

Medical doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Lagos State chapter, and the Association of Nigerian Private Medical Practitioners, ANPMP, on Saturday in Lagos staged a rare joint protest, decrying what they described as “persistent harassment, intimidation and unlawful arrests” by government agencies, particularly the police.

In a report before the joint committee on petroleum resources of the Senate and House of Reps, Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited documented a comprehensive legal crackdown…

By Sufuyan Ojeifo  An independent journalist takes a look at the renewed push by lenders to halt the revival of a previously terminated pipeline transaction and what it signals for valuation discipline and reform credibility in Nigeria’s oil sector._ A group of lenders led by  Sterling Bank is pushing to stop the revival of a […]

Troops of the Nigerian Army have rescued 13 passengers abducted from a Benue Links commercial bus along the Makurdi–Otukpo road on Wednesday.

Nigeria’s expanding events industry is driving increased demand for professional masters of ceremonies, with practitioners handling a growing number of engagements annually as weddings, corporate functions and political gatherings become more elaborate.

By EMAMEH GABRIEL The Ethiopian novelist Haddis Alemayehu, writing in the early twentieth century, observed that “a river that carves a canyon does so not by shouting at the stone but by flowing past it every single day.” The Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor similarly reminded us that “the drummer who announces his own arrival is […]

Afrofusion artiste Sean Dampte is gaining attention in 2026 for his attempt to bridge contemporary Afrobeats with the ideological and musical legacy of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti.