Nigeria’s Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has stirred controversy by claiming that “Nigerians think senators make money, but we struggle after office.” Wait, what?! At a time when millions of Nigerians are battling economic hardship, rising inflation, and youth unemployment, this statement is already setting social media on fire. In case you don’t know; Nigerian senators…

The Federal Government has cleared a debt of over ₦20bn and resolved a backlog of more than 200,000 passport applications inherited before the Bola Tinubu administration assumed office. The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja during the inauguration of a new Passport Front Office under the Ministry. He said the…

A Nigerian man arrested in February 2025 for confronting the person who snatched his phone has regained his freedom after five months in detention. The man, identified as Umar, was taking a walk in Mabushi, Abuja, when his phone was forcefully grabbed. He tried to report the incident at a nearby police station but was…

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) on Wednesday released the names of its party chairmen across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The announcement was made by the party’s National Secretariat through an update shared on social media. According to the party, the release of the list is part of its nationwide structure update….

Traders at the Naze Cluster Market in Owerri North council Area of Imo State have appealed to Governor Hope Uzodimma to come to their rescue over incessant police harassment and arrest of traders at the market on the orders of a caretaker chairman of the market. The distraught traders alleged that the caretaker chairman of…

Following inkling that the federal government is still bent on acquiring lands for ranching, the governors of the South-east states have, again, been asked not to get involved in the agenda of “federal land grabbing” for disguised Ruga project. The latest warning was handed down by three South-east Diaspora groups based in the United States…

Even before the formal commissioning of the newly reconstructed Port Harcourt Road in Aba, Abia State, excited traders and residents have begun relocating to the area, drawn by the transformation of the once-dilapidated route. Along the newly completed stretch, especially near the Enugu–Port Harcourt Expressway, petty traders in their shops expressed renewed enthusiasm for the…

The Enugu State Police Command has narrated how a 22-year-old woman, Deborah Sam-Praise Ememem, was allegedly murdered in a hotel room in Nsukka by a second-year student of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). The suspect, identified as Emmanuel Gambo from Kogi State, is a student of the Department of Material and Metallurgical Engineering at…

The Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, has praised President Bola Tinubu for achievements so far, saying the South East Geo-political Zone is fully in support of him and will work for his re-election. Umahi spoke to journalists on Friday night in Lagos, where he dismissed claims that the South East was giving conditions, such…

Anambra State Governor Professor Chukwuma Soludo has challenged the prevailing narrative that Fulani herdsmen are responsible for the rising wave of kidnappings and violent crime in the Southeast. Speaking to Anambra indigenes at a town hall meeting in Maryland over the weekend, Soludo asserted that nearly all the criminals apprehended in his state are, in…