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During a political rally in Edo State on Friday, Monday Okpebholo warned Mr Obi not to enter the state without notifying him or obtaining security clearance. Despite widespread criticisms, Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State has defended his recent threats not to allow Peter Obi, the 2023 Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, to enter the South-south state without informing him. Mr Okpebholo …

…Another N757.9bn for pension liabilities … $2bn for currency denomination The Senate on Tuesday approved the Federal Government’s 2025-2026 External Borrowing (Rolling) Plan comprising USD21.8bn; €2.1bn; JPY15bn; and a grant of €65m respectively to fund various projects and programmes of the administration of President Bola Tinubu. Contents The Senate also approved the President’s request to issue FG’s Bond in the …

The United States government has issued a fresh travel advisory to its citizens, warning against travel to Nigeria over the unavailability of healthcare services, the increasing rate of kidnapping, terrorism, and armed gangs, among other crimes. The travel advisory issued as part of the US’s security review serves as a guide for travellers planning trips to Africa, with some countries …

The report was first introduced on May 27, 2025, but its consideration was stalled by a combination of legislative recesses and bureaucratic delays, especially in obtaining documents from the Debt Management Office (DMO). On Tuesday, the Nigerian Senate approved President Bola Tinubu’s sweeping request for external borrowing totalling more than $21 billion to fund key development initiatives over the 2025–2026 …

The Dangote Petroleum refinery has begun exporting Premium Motor Spirit, selling approximately 1.35 billion litres of petrol to other countries worldwide in the past 50 days. President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, disclosed this at the ongoing Global Commodity Insights Conference on West African Refined Fuel Markets hosted by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority in …

The Federal Government has declared that there will be no going back on the full transition of the National Examinations Council (NECO), West African Examinations Council (WAEC), and other public examination bodies from paper-pencil to Computer-Based Test (CBT) mode of examination by 2026. Minister of Education, Dr Olatunji Alausa, stated this during the monitoring of the pilot CBT Senior School …

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has become the latest political shelter for Nigeria’s restless power-seekers—men who have traversed multiple political beds without once settling to build a real ideological home. A party originally floated as an alternative to the corrupt mainstream has now morphed into a hollow vessel—promiscuous in its alliances and uncertain in its convictions. From all indications, the …

The 2023 vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Datti Baba-Ahmed, has said that former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, is free to seek the party’s presidential ticket for the 2027 elections, whether or not he returns as his running mate. FILE: Peter Obi and Datti-Ahmed campaigning in Kogi State in 2023. Baba-Ahmed stated this on Wednesday while speaking as …

• High-stakes parley may reshape 2027 path amid rising doubts over Shettima• Wike’s growing influence unsettles party as defections reshape power base• Okechukwu cautions against sidelining CPC bloc in leadership race• Don’t repeat PDP’s arrogance, mistakes, South-South faction warns Tomorrow’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to be one of the party’s most …

The rebasing exercise which updates Nigeria’s data to mirror its current conditions and changing circumstances placed real estate third on GDP. Nigeria’s real estate sector has overtaken crude oil and natural gas as the third largest contributor to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), following the rebasing of GDP to 2019 base year by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics, (NBS). According …