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The House of Representatives has directed 11 electricity distribution companies to refund ₦55.42 billion obtained under the National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP). Lawmakers on Thursday adopted a committee report giving the DISCOs a seven-month deadline to repay the loan to the Central Bank of Nigeria. Presenting the report, Chairman Uchenna Okonkwo said the probe followed the committee’s mandate and found …

The Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, has warned that the era of recklessness and impunity in the Force is over nationwide. Disu spoke during the passing-out of 1,068 retrained constables at Police Mobile Force Base 26, Uyo, on Thursday. He said, “An unskilled officer with a gun is a danger, while a skilled, disciplined officer is a true guardian of …

The National Data Protection Commission (NDPC) says it recorded over 1,500 cyberattack attempts within a short period. The National Commissioner of NDPC, Dr Vincent Olatunji, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of a data protection training programme in Lagos. Olatunji said the situation forced a temporary shutdown of the commission’s network, …

The Sen. Adolphus Wabara-led Board of Trustees (BoT) of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it has assumed leadership of the party, following Thursday’s judgment by the Supreme Court. The BoT, in statement on Thursday in Abuja, said that the constitutional intervention by the BoT was to avert leadership vacuum at the national level of the party, following the apex court …

Despite this, FIWON said they remain largely excluded from essential social protection systems, with existing programmes described as ineffective and inaccessible. The Federation of Informal Workers Organisations of Nigeria (FIWON) has demanded an urgent overhaul of Nigeria’s social security architecture, calling for a 50:50 pension co-contribution model to save the over 93% of the nation’s workforce currently “abandoned” by the …

President Donald Trump’s maritime blockade is the latest attempt to test a thus far unproven theory of the Iran war — that superior US might will inevitably break the Islamic Republic. The strategy is based on a simple premise: The strangulation of Iran’s oil exports and the imports that sustain regular life there will trigger societal collapse. This will build …

President Bola Tinubu has nominated Mr Joseph Tegbe as Minister of Power, subject to confirmation by the Senate. The nomination has been transmitted to the Senate for screening and confirmation in accordance with the Constitution. This is contained in a statement issued by Presidential Spokesperson, Mr Bayo Onanuga, on Thursday in Abuja. The nomination follows the resignation of the former …

  The unions said the action followed the federal government’s slow pace in renegotiating the 2009 agreement with non-academic staff, despite concluding a similar process with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has directed …

The Supreme Court has voided the national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, held in Ibadan, Oyo State, on November 15 and 16, 2025, ruling that the exercise was conducted in violation of a subsisting court order. In a split decision delivered on Tuesday, three of the five justices of the apex court dismissed the appeal filed by the …

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi has said the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran cannot be the starting point for a new agreement with the country. Grossi said this at a news conference on Wednesday at UN Headquarters in New York held on the margins of the latest international review of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty …