Indepth Analysis of Nigerian News & World Reports
By Isaac Samuel Former Nigerian Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd), has featured in promotional material of an Indian hospital where he had a knee replacement surgery in 2023.…
Isaac Samuel The Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) killed 554 terrorists and criminals, arrested 1,333 others and rescued 1,736 kidnapped civilians across the country between July and September 2026. The…
Isaac Samuel President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has departed Paris, France, for Nigeria after ending his working vacation, with his aircraft expected to land in Lagos later today. Tinubu will first…
Things We Grew Up Knowing That Have Disappeared By Babafemi Ojudu There was a time when the presence of government was felt less through radio announcements, billboards, convoys and grand…
By Reuben Abati “Hopes and Impediments” is the title of a 1988 collection of essays by the legendary writer, Chinua Achebe, and it is perhaps the most appropriate phrase to…
By Isaac Samuel The controversy over loans obtained by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Administration took a fresh turn recently with Senator Ireti Kingibe challenging Minister Nyesom Wike to produce…
By ETIM ETIM A new political pastime has emerged in Akwa Ibom State since the state governor, Pastor Umo Eno joined APC last year. Championed by two groups of malicious…
By Farooq A. Kperogi A few days before Nasir El-Rufai’s trending, impassioned September 23 letter talking about the “apparent silence” of friends and family members he had “publicly stood by,”…
By Marcel Okeke To the informed players and watchers of the Nigerian economy, dissonance between the monetary and fiscal policies has been one of the root causes of the country’s…
Isaac Samuel Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, has rejected his inclusion in the policy team of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential…
Isaac Samuel The presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has approved the composition of a lean National Campaign Council and Presidential Campaign Management Committee ahead of…
By Isaac Samuel Eminent Nigerian banker and philanthropist, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, has said that his main purpose in life is to build people and institutions. In a solemn message he released…
Isaac Samuel Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has reflected on the silence of some of his former colleagues, friends and associates amid his ongoing legal travails, saying adversity has…
By Babafemi Ojudu I grew up knowing what Nigeria stood for in the world. I came of age when our opposition to apartheid was not merely a line in a…
Isaac Samuel The Minister of Defence, Gen. Christopher Musa (retd.), has proposed that every Nigerian should undergo military training to better understand the demands and sacrifices involved in protecting the…
As Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede turns 60 on Thursday, September 24, his long-standing focus on capital markets raises a bigger question for Africa: can the continent build the financial infrastructure needed to…
…Aliko Dangote and the Transformative Promise of the People’s IPO By Anayo Agu Lagos There are moments when a business transaction becomes larger than business. It becomes a statement about…
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, has assured local government council chairmen and chairmen of traditional rulers’ councils across the country that…
By Isaac Samuel Senate President Godswill Akpabio has dismissed concerns over the absence of President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima from Nigeria, insisting that there is no vacancy…
…As he commissions 4.12km road in Ikot Ekpene By ETIM ETIM In his usual display of affection for Gov. Umo Eno, Senate President Godswill Akpabio Tuesday commended the the Akwa…
Isaac Samuel Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, has joined the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), three months after leaving the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Lawal…
By ETIM ETIM Commissioning a road Project in his predecessor’s community Monday, Gov Umo Eno has asked Akwa Ibom people to disregard all the unfounded utterances, fake news and unsubstantiated…
By Reuben Abati The high- level meetings and debates of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) open today at the UN Headquarters in New York, United States, with about 300 heads…
By Usen Udoh What if Akwa Ibom is already becoming a holiday destination—and we simply haven’t paid enough attention? Consider this. A friend and board member of my company recently…
By Ken Harries, Esq. There is a point at which political contestation ceases to be an argument about ideas and becomes an assault on the very boundaries that make civil society…
…President extends vacation Isaac Samuel Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has questioned the constitutional status of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s continued…
By Mohammed Bello Doka There comes a point in the life of a nation when an institution stops pretending. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has reached that point. It…
Access Bank has redeemed its US$500 million Senior Unsecured Eurobond, which matured on Monday, September 21, 2026, underscoring the bank’s strong liquidity position, disciplined balance sheet management, and continued commitment…
Wigwe University has announced the reconstitution of its Governing Council with the appointment of five distinguished academics and professionals to the existing Council. The development marks an important milestone in…
By ETIM ETIM A blackmailer is a criminal who threatens to reveal a damaging, embarrassing or secret piece of information about someone unless that person pays the blackmailer money, property…
By Ata Ikkideh Something rather disturbing happened to me yesterday, and I am still trying to make sense of it. Two weeks ago, I walked into a diagnostic centre to…
Isaac Samuel President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has mandated Vice President Kashim Shettima to represent him and lead Nigeria’s delegation to the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)…
By Celestine Mel Trust is the most fragile currency in human interaction. It takes years to build, seconds to shatter, and when deliberately weaponized for malicious reasons, it ceases to…
By Garba Shehu There are good reasons why Leno Adesanya and his company, Sunrise Power Transition Company lost their case at the International Chamber of Commerce, ICC, an outcome that…
Isaac Samuel Access Holdings Plc has announced the appointment of Ifedayo Olaniyi Orimoloye as Executive Director, Risk Management of its flagship subsidiary, Access Bank Plc. The appointment, which was…
Isaac Samuel President Bola Tinubu has directed state governments to accelerate the implementation of the National Affordable CNG Transit Programme to ensure that more Nigerians begin to experience lower transportation…
By Farooq A. Kperogi Nigeria has tried almost everybody except the people who actually frighten the system, who can shake, even extirpate, the status quo and who can cause the…
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has demanded a thorough, independent and transparent investigation into the deaths of 37 persons detained by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in…
By Sunday Dare Alhaji Atiku Abubakar convened a press conference in Abuja and chose, once again, to address the President of the Federal Republic as “Bola.” He issued instructions. He…
Isaac Samuel The Federal Government has constituted a 10-member independent committee to investigate the reported deaths of 37 people held in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence…
Isaac Samuel President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ordered a full and transparent investigation into the deaths of suspected illegal miners detained by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC)…
Isaac Samuel Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) of politicising the outcome of the Mambilla Power Project arbitration ruling ahead…
Isaac Samuel Former Vice President and African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has warned President Bola Tinubu against removing electricity subsidies from 2027, saying the move could worsen…
Isaac Samuel The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has accused the African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, of compromising Nigeria’s national interest over the controversial contract…
The APC Campaign Council has stated that former Vice President Atiku Abubarkar is too corrupt to be President. In a statement issued Friday by Dele Alake, Spokesman of the…
By Marcel Okeke The continuous wavy movement of the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) has come to be one of the most disrupting and distorting trends in the three-year…
This is President Tinubu’s statement on the decision of an international arbitration panel on the Mambilla Power project delivered on Thursday, September 17 An International Arbitration Tribunal under the auspices…
Ali Ndume, senator representing Borno south, says Nigerian citizens are responsible for the irresponsible leaders they complain about. Ndume spoke on Wednesday, September 16, at the public presentation of ‘Military…
Isaac Samuel What started as Nyesom Wike’s effort to mobilise politicians across party lines for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election is fast turning into a struggle over the control the political…
By ETIM ETIM On October 1, 1996, Gen. Sani Abacha announced the creation of Ibesikpo-Asutan LGA among many others across the country, in a bold move designed to strengthen the…
