Saturday, 24 January, 2026

Category: News


The Pentagon released a priority-shifting National Defense Strategy late Friday that chastised U.S. allies to take control of their own security and reasserted the Trump administration’s focus on dominance in the Western Hemisphere above a longtime goal of countering China. The 34-page document, the Read more…


President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the posting of four ambassador-designates out of the 68 confirmed by the Senate last December. The approvals were conveyed in a statement signed by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, dated Read more…


Nigeria’s national power grid collapsed on Friday, marking the first system failure recorded in 2026 and causing a nationwide blackout. Data obtained from the Nigerian Independent System Operator (NISO) showed that electricity generation dropped to zero megawatts (MW) during the Read more…


The Anambra Internal Revenue Service has arrested four persons for engaging in illegal revenue collection in Onitsha. The suspects identified as Ikenna Udoji, Kosi Iwobi, Chidera Ogbogu and Monday, were arrested while collecting money ranging from one thousand, two hundred Read more…


Kano State governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has formally resigned his membership of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), citing protracted internal crises and the need to protect the overall interest of the people of the State. The resignation was disclosed Read more…


Family members of kidnapped worshippers bemoaning their fate Agony. Anguish. Gloom. Doom. These are the intense emotional feelings that currently pervade the air in Kurmin Wali community, Afogo Ward, Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State and indeed the entire Southern Read more…


Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has been granted honorary citizenship of Georgia, a state in the United States. Kanu is currently serving a life prison sentence at the Sokoto Prison after he was convicted on Read more…


President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Greenland’s ownership was not Russia’s concern and that the United States and Denmark – whose historical treatment ​of the island he criticised – should sort the matter out between themselves. Moscow has watched Read more…


Former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, has revealed details of what allegedly transpired during a meeting between President Bola Tinubu and Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday. In a statement titled, “Untold story of Read more…


The Supreme Court, on Thursday, finally brought to an end the long-running murder case of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, dismissing the attempt by the Lagos State Government to revive the prosecution of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (retd). In a unanimous decision, a Read more…


The plot by the Rivers State House of Assembly to oust Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his deputy, Prof. Ngozi Odu, has been stalled as the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Simeon Amadi, has declined to constitute a judicial panel to Read more…


PRESIDENT TINUBU APPROVES TARGETED INCENTIVES TO UNLOCK JOBS, FX INFLOWS FROM SHELL’S BONGA SOUTHWEST PROJECT AND OTHER DEEP OFFSHORE PROJECTS President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the gazetting of targeted, investment-linked incentives to support the proposed Bonga South West deep-offshore Read more…