By Oyintutu Oyinkolade/Angela Atabo Abuja: President Bola Tinubu says his administration has repositioned housing from a social service into a major driver of economic growth, employment generation, industrialisation and inclusive national development. Tinubu, represented by the Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Muttaqha Darma, stated this on Tuesday at theContinue Reading
Justice Mohammed Umar of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered the arrest of Adeniyi Adeyemi, the Director-General (DG) of alleged non-existing Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC). Justice Umar gave the order following an oral application by counsel for the police, Wisdom Madaki, after Adeyemi refusedContinue Reading
(Resident Representative of KAS, Moritz Sprenker,) Mr Dapo Olorunyomi, Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) on Monday proposed a new professional charter to aid religion reporting in the country. Olorunyomi said the charter would curb sensationalism and bias, enable journalists to treat religion withContinue Reading
The police is to arraign Adeniyi Adeyemi, the Director-General (DG) of a non-existing Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) in the Federal High Court on Tuesday. The police in a fresh court document marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/562/2025, charged presently Adeyemi and two others with eight counts of forgery, impersonation, among others.Continue Reading
The Nigerian Military says preliminary forensic analysis has uncovered the involvement of a Moroccan and a Palestinian among foreign operatives fighting alongside the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in the country. The military said the discovery followed a failed ISWAP attack on troops of Operation HADIN KAI inContinue Reading
*By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Three score and three years ago, a defining dispute erupted in the old Western Region of Nigeria over the scope and reach of constitutional conventions in determining or terminating the tenure of high-level political leadership. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which ultimatelyContinue Reading
By Uche Bibilari Gwagwalada (FCT): The Governing Council of the University of Abuja, now Yakubu Gowon University, chaired by Dr Olanrewaju Tejuoso, has approved the promotion of 34 academic staff to professorial ranks. This is contained in a statement issued by the Acting Director, Information and University Relations,Continue Reading
By Emmanuel Oloniruha Abuja: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it has successfully uploaded the names of its 2027 presidential candidate, his running mate and National Assembly candidates into the INEC nomination portal. The party’s National Chairman, Abdulrahman Mohammed, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja.Continue Reading
By Danladi Ahmed The Tinubu Media Support Group (TMSG) has described the successful rescue of 44 students and teachers kidnapped in Oriire, Oyo State after nearly two months in captivity as a further affirmation of an improved and better inter-agency synergy and coordination approach under the President BolaContinue Reading
