By DAKUKU PETERSIDE The main threat to Nigerian democracy is no longer a lack of understanding of elections but the growing doubt that elections matter. What is often labelled voter apathy is actually a rational response. When citizens believe their...
Nigerian banks generated a combined N209.18 billion from account maintenance charges in the first quarter of 2026, representing a 14.07 per cent increase from the N183.37 billion recorded during the same period in 2025. An analysis of the unaudited financial...
Isn't it high time Nigeria dropped all other projects and face total economic empowerment and reorientation of the North? Yes, North, because this horrid terror monster was birthed there. And yes because our six- lane concrete roads can't be...
Security was tightened around the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday following plans by human rights activist and African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, to lead a protest to Aso Rock over the continued captivity of abducted...
By RAYMOND OISE It is almost three weeks since teachers and school pupils were abducted in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, yet the Nigerian government has failed to secure their release despite the fact that both the abductors...
Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has threatened to reveal the identities of politicians allegedly sponsoring kidnappers responsible for the abduction of schoolchildren in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State. Igboho made the claim while...
Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate Peter Obi has urged Nigerian youth to resist attempts to divide the country along ethnic and religious lines ahead of the 2027 general election. Obi also defended the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has approved a special compensation package for eligible Band A electricity customers affected by poor power supply caused by generation constraints on the national grid between February and March 2026. In a public notice...
Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has reaffirmed his support for President Bola Tinubu and Governor Biodun Oyebanji ahead of the 2027 presidential election and the June 20 governorship election in Ekiti State, declaring that he would not...
A suspected gas leak has sparked concern in the Ijebu-Ode area of Ogun State, after many students and staff members of Our Lady of Apostles Secondary School fell ill on Wednesday. The affected individuals were taken to the General Hospital...