Despite the Federal Government’s multi-billion-naira border surveillance systems launched in 2019, illegal migrants, some of whom have been identified as bandits, terrorists and kidnappers, continue to cross into Nigeria from the Republics of Benin, Chad, Niger, Mali and Cameroon. This is as the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, said e-border surveillance is now being mounted […]

The administration of President Bola Tinubu is under pressure to dump the food import waiver that it announced in July 2024. Multiple sources at the Presidency said the pressure has been coming from the private sector who claimed that opening up the country to food import would undermine their investments and worsen the unemployment rate […]

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje on Wednesday threw his weight behind the embattled National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka. He also described claims attributed to the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, as misleading, an act he said incited his online supporters to […]

Lagos State Special Offences Court, on Wednesday, dismissed an application filed by former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, challenging the court’s jurisdiction to entertain the $4.5bn and N2.8bn fraud charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Justice Rahman Oshodi, in his ruling, held that the court had […]

Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) has demanded an end to the alleged unfair and class-apartheid emolument system for serving and retiring military officers, judges and top political officers. Rather, CDWR demanded an increment of workers’ wages/salaries to living wage in line with the inflation rate. In a statement, jointly signed by the National […]

Wants 2025 appropriation to prioritise capital projects Adeola, Birchi criticise recurrent expenditure dominance Budget Office seeks legislative reforms to cap recurrent spending The National Assembly has issued a stern warning regarding the poor implementation of the 2024 capital budget, calling for the immediate release of funds to drive economic growth and deliver essential infrastructure projects. […]

By AFP (COMBO) This combination of pictures created on January 07, 2025 shows Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the 27th annual Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on May 6, 2024 and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing “Big Tech and the Online Child […]