The policy think-tank of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), The Progressives Institute (TPI), has announced plans to conduct a three-year performance review of President Bola Tinubu, saying it is time to critically assess the gains of the administration’s multi-sectoral reforms. Speaking on Thursday during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between TPI and Jade & Jaydens Services Limited, which will support the upcoming three-day Midterm Sectoral Review of President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, TPI Director-General Dr. Lanre Adebayo lauded the president’s economic measures. He highlighted that the removal of the petrol subsidy and the floating of the Naira…
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From left: Charge D’Affairs U.S Embassy in Nigeria, Keith Heffern, Commander AFRICOM, General Dagvin Anderson, President Bola Tinubu, Command Sergeant Major Garric M. Banfield, Command Senior Enlisted Leader, United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) and Senior Foreign Policy Adviser, AFRICOM, Amb. Peter Vrooman, when the AFRICOM delegation paid a visit to President Tinubu on Sunday, 8 February 2026, in Abuja. From left Director-General, National Intelligence Agency, Mohammed Mohammed, Director General, Department of State Services, Tosin Ajayi, Command Sergeant Major Garric M. Banfield, Command Senior Enlisted Leader, United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), Senior Foreign Policy Adviser, AFRICOM, Amb. Peter Vrooman, Charge D’Affairs…
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has appealed to the National Judicial Council (NJC) to appoint Shari’ah experts into Courts of Appeal to enable informed and balanced dispensation of justice. The appeal was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday, 4th February, 2026 by the Executive Director of the Islamic human rights group, Professor Ishaq Akintola. The statement reads: “For whereas the Nigerian Constitution provides for Shari’ah Courts of Appeal in Nigeria to be manned by those who are learned in Islamic Law, there has been no Shari’ah panel in the Court of Appeal for the past seven years. ”The same…
– Warn of national security, democratic, and economic risks if journalism continues to weaken Nigeria’s major media and journalism organisations have issued a joint call on the Federal Government and the National Assembly to urgently intervene to protect the Nigerian press from what they describe as the growing dominance of global digital platforms over the country’s information ecosystem. In a strongly worded statement released under the banner of the Nigerian Press Organisation (NPO), the groups warned that Nigeria risks surrendering control of its democratic conversation, national cohesion, and information sovereignty to unregulated foreign technology companies if decisive action is not…
… As Morocco’s FAR finished 4th best By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau History was made in London, England, on Sunday, as Arsenal women’s football club won the final of the first-ever FIFA Women’s Champions Cup. Arsenal beat Brazilian side Corinthians women’s football club 3-2 in extra time at London’s Emirates Stadium. Goals from Olivia Smith and Lotte Wubben-Moy put Arsenal twice ahead against the Brazilian side, who pegged them back on both occasions to force an additional 30 minutes. Howeve, Caitlin Foord struck in the 104th minute to clinch the victory and ensure Arsenal created another piece of history.…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu receives in audience the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja, in a courtesy visit, at the State House, Abuja. Friday, January 23, 2026. President Tinubu holding talks with Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Rashidi Ladoja READ ALSO:
The trial of former Head of Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, before Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja, continued on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, with the First Prosecution Witness, Hamma Adama Bello testifying with video evidence in a trial-within-trial that the defendant wrote her statements voluntarily and under caution in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The witness, an operative of the EFCC, testified as the prosecution sought to establish the voluntariness of the statements Oyo-Ita made to the Commission during investigations, which the defendant, midstream into her trial, swung round to claim that…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced plans to significantly step up enforcement actions in 2026, following the enactment of the Investments and Securities Act (ISA) 2025, as part of efforts to strengthen investor confidence and market integrity. The Director-General of the SEC, Dr. Emomotimi Agama, disclosed this while outlining the Commission’s regulatory priorities, noting that the new law has expanded the Commission’s supervisory and enforcement powers. Agama said the Commission would apply these powers “firmly and impartially” to address market abuse, insider dealing, fraudulent investment schemes, and other forms of misconduct in the capital…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja A new dawn in revenue administration in the country officially began Thursday January 1st, 2026, as the Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS) which replaces the now rested Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) unveils its institutional brand identity. NRS came into operation following the signing of its enabling law known as the Nigeria Revenue Service Establishment Act 2025 by President Bola Tinubu in June 2025. Speaking at the unveiling of the logo on Wednesday in Abuja, the Executive Chairman of NRS, Zacch Adedeji, explained that the logo and other brand elements for NRS represent an important milestone in…
As we enter a new year, the questions that fill our markets, our homes, and our places of work are clear and urgent. They are questions about the price of food, about security in our communities, and about the direction in which our country is headed. It is the duty of this office, the Ministry of Information and National Orientation, to speak to these questions directly, clearly, and with respect for every Nigerian bearing the weight of this moment. The last thirty-one months have been a period of foundational, often difficult, transformation. Our bold reforms, beginning with the necessary but…