The rain started in trickles, small drops at a time. Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, is not immune to rainfall.

But by 10pm last Tuesday, it was no longer raindrops. It was a flood — the first of its kind in recent history. By the time the rains eased, it had caused serious upset in the city’s prime towns-Asokoro, Maitama, Guzape, Lokogoma, Garki and Wuse.

As the campaigns for the 2027 general elections begin following the signing of the Peace Accord last week by presidential candidates, there are fears over the likelihood of the exercise snowballing into brinkmanship.

National Brands Development and Made-in-Nigeria Special Project Office, the alleged fake agency uncovered by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and domiciled in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, OSGF, for years, paraded itself as a properly constituted federal outfit.

US President Donald Trump had said Washington “should be able to have a deal with Canada,” citing his “good relationship” with Carney.

“I don’t want to lose my state! I will be in my state. I have two states: FCT and Rivers. What is important is that you are able to deliver those two states”

The Edo Government has said Afrobeats star David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, is free to visit the state.

ICPC identified the promoter as one Prince George Buchi Nwabueze, who operated under multiple aliases with collaboration of senior public servants

The Presidency, this morning, released a list of members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council.

Eight members of one family were killed in a compound, leaving behind only a two-year-old child who survived with gunshot wounds

What the separate encounters with IRI show is that the parties are already making different cases for why their version of opposition politics deserves attention.

The agency wants to submit the explanation ex parte and in camera, meaning the material would be presented directly to the judge without being made available as part of the public court record.

“Every Eid ul Mawlid gives us reason to pause and draw lessons from a life defined by compassion, humility and service to others.”

Following irreconcilable crisis within the party, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and senator representing Kwara Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Saliu Mustapha, has formally resigned his membership of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

President Bola Tinubu, and former Vice President and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, disagreed over the return of fuel subsidy.

When over 1,000 police officers and their families were forcefully displaced from the historic Central Police Station (CPS) Barracks in Onitsha in 2013 following a controversial land dispute, many Nigerians viewed it as an isolated crisis.  But it wasn’t.