MAKURDI Nine persons,includoing a police officer, have been killed in a renewed attack by suspected armed herdsmen on communities in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State. Meanwhile, there is tension between the Igede-speaking people of Oju and Obi Local Government Areas of Benue State and their neighbouring Tiv communities in Gwer East and Konshisha Local Government Areas following the killing of two middle-aged men, Jonathan Ogah and Gabriel Ogodo, from Oju LGA by suspected Tiv youths at Ulam community in Gwer East council of the state. It was gathered that among the communities affected in the latest attacks were…
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Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has criticised the federal government’s economic reforms under President Bola Tinubu, describing them as “harsh neo-liberal policies” that have worsened living conditions and wiped out Nigeria’s middle class. Speaking on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ yesterday, Falana said that despite Tinubu’s recent admission of economic hardship, the administration’s policies have further deepened poverty and inequality. “I have seen the President ask APC governors to ‘wet the ground’ more, but as far as the masses are concerned, things are getting tougher by the day because of the harsh economic crisis in…
Nigeria’s hope of meeting its 2.06 million barrels per day crude oil production benchmark in the 2025 budget received a boost in July, with the country exceeding 1.8 million bpd peak output for the first time this year, the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) said yesterday. The 2025 national budget, pegged at about N55 trillion, was built on an assumed oil production of about 2.06 million bpd (including condensate) and a benchmark crude price of $75 per barrel. The government expects oil revenues to contribute roughly N19.6 trillion of revenue from the oil sector, an aspiration that has been hobbled by underproduction…
Former Oyo State governor, Rashidi Ladoja, on Monday, emerged as the Olubadan-designate, following a unanimous nomination by the Olubadan-in-Council. The endorsement, which was held at the Olubadan Palace in Oke-Aremo, in the Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State, marked a significant step in the traditional succession process. The formal confirmation of his ascension now rests with Governor Seyi Makinde, who is expected to ratify the council’s decision and set a date for the presentation of the staff of office. If assented, Ladoja will become the 44th Olubadan of Ibadanland. The Olubadan-designate was, however, not present at the meeting.…
Rivers State Police Command said its operatives have arrested seven cultists linked to the murder of a lawyer, Bright Owhor, along Market Road in Rumuomasi in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state. Owhor, a Port Harcourt-based lawyer, was gruesomely murdered on July 5, 2025, by persons the police described then as ‘unknown gunmen’. The spokesperson for the state Police Command, Grace Iringe-Koko, disclosed this in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Monday. Iringe-Koko said it took the command’s Anti-Kidnapping Unit 10 days of discreet intelligence and technical surveillance to track the culprits and have them apprehended. Iringe-Koko, a…
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has taken a swipe at former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar over his frequent defections across Nigeria’s major political parties, saying his actions are driven by a desperate ambition to become president. Speaking during a media parley in Abuja on Monday, Wike questioned Atiku’s political consistency and described his movement from one party to another as unbecoming, especially for someone nearing 80 years of age. “Atiku was in the PDP in 1999, then he joined the Action Congress (AC). After AC, he returned to the PDP, later moved to the All Progressives Congress…
ABUJA President Bola Tinubu yesterday gifted Nigeria’s senior national women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, $100,000 to each of the players, $top50,000 each for the 11-man coaching and technical team, and bedroom flats at Renewed Hope Estate for every member of the team and coaching staff. Besides, the President conferred on the players and technical crew the prestigious national honor of Officer, Order of the Niger, OON. The recognition of D’Tigress followed a similar state reception President Tinubu hosted last week for the Super Falcons, after their record-extending tenth Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, WAFCON, victory in Rabat, Morocco. The team clinched…
Nigeria women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, have become the first team to win the FIBA women’s AfroBasket five times in a row after defeating Mali on Sunday. D’Tigress also booked an automatic ticket for the 2026 FIBA Women’s World Cup in Berlin, Germany. The Nigerian team won 78-64 in a hotly-contested game in at the Palais des Sports de Treichville in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. Recall that D’Tigress advanced into the final of the 2025 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket with a 75-68 Victor over Senegal on Saturday. It was a clash of titans, with the Malian team edging the tightly contested first quarter,…
By the time Ogun’s gubernatorial hopefuls had begun printing flyers and plotting alliances, Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola (better known by his moniker, Yayi) had already laid down a mosaic of quiet victories. Not the kind measured in headlines or hashtags, but in kilometres of road, classrooms repaired, traders revived, and alliances, oh, so delicately brokered. To the unbothered Nigerian onlooker, Yayi might appear to be just another senator navigating the potholes of federal politics. But speak to a market woman in Ilaro, a student in Ota, or a party stalwart in Abeokuta, and you’ll hear it: a name spoken not…
The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE) has projected that the country’s GDP could reach an estimated $450 billion by the end of 2025 if there is no major disruption in the economy. This projection was made yesterday by economist and founder of CPPE, Dr. Muda Yusuf, in a press release titled “CPPE Statement on Nigeria’s GDP Re-basing, Q1 2025 GDP Report, and Sectoral Analysis.” The CPPE also argued that future re-basing exercises should be conducted more regularly and in a timely manner, in line with global standards in order to maintain the relevance and credibility of Nigeria’s…