Brant Philip, a Sahel-focused terrorism tracker, has sparked heightened scrutiny of U.S.–Nigeria security cooperation after alleging that American surveillance aircraft have now entered Nigerian airspace, days after earlier reports suggested the United States may be preparing for unmanned drone strikes against terrorist targets inside the country. In a series of posts on X, Philip said […] More
Governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. This comes with less than 24 hours to the PDP governorship primary election. Adeleke’s decision was communicated in a letter which surfaced on Monday, but was dated November 4, 2025. The governor cited the crisis in the party as the reason […] More
French giant, TotalEnergies has announced the sale of a 40 per cent stake in its Nigerian offshore exploration licences to Star Deep Water Petroleum Limited, a subsidiary of US oil giant Chevron. According to a report by Reuters, the agreement covers two licence areas spanning 2,000 square kilometres in the West Delta basin. The transaction […] More
The naira depreciated against the dollar at the official and parallel foreign exchange markets on Monday to begin the new month on a bearish note. Central Bank of Nigeria’s data showed that the Naira weakened to N1,448.44 on Monday, down from N1,446.74 traded on Friday last week. This means that the naira dropped by N1.7 […] More
Police in Borno State have recovered gold said to be worth N23.6m which a woman buried in Mallamfatori, Abadam local government area 15 years ago while running from a Boko Haram attack. According to the woman, she hid the gold in the sand before fleeing the town. She recently returned and reported the matter to […] More
Former Arsenal star, Paul Merson has predicted Chelsea to finish above Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City on the Premier League table this season. Merson also predicted that Arsenal could still win the Premier League title “easily.” Arsenal are on top of the Premeir League table ahead of Man City (second position) and Chelsea (third position) after […] More
It’s no longer news that Nigeria’s Super Eagles will not be at the 2026 FIFA World Cup taking place in Mexico, the United States and Canada next year. The Super Eagles recently struggled to make it to the intercontinental playoff of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers. Eric Chelle’s men were knocked out by DR Congo, […] More
Popular Nigerian social critic Martins Vincent Otse, widely known as VeryDarkman, VDM, has suggested what he described as the “only solution” to the country’s security challenges, particularly terrorism. In a video clip posted on his official Facebook page on Monday, VDM blamed the worsening crisis on the lack of education, especially in the northern part […] More
A four-year-old boy, Abdulmumini Surajo, has been rescued unharmed in Koko, Kebbi State, after being kidnapped by his mother, Maryam Muhammad, 25. Abdulmumini went missing on November 26, 2025, and the father received a ransom call demanding N5 million. Police investigations traced the call to Maryam, who was promptly arrested and confessed to orchestrating the […] More
The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has refuted allegations of endorsing amnesty and payments to bandits, akin to late President Yarádua’s amnesty program for Niger Delta militants, dismissing a video clip, now trending on social media. The National Publicity Secretary of the ACF Prof T. A. Muhammad-Baba said, the insinuation must have emanated from a recent […] More
The Chairperson of Karim Lamido local government Council, of Taraba State, Virginia Baba Bambur, on Monday, condemned the communal clashes that affected several communities within the local government area. Following the wranglings in the area, a 24 how curfew, as of the time of this report, had been imposed on the local government. In a […] More
The Chief Promoter of the Alternative Movement, Otunba Segun Showunmi, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to explore a political solution in the case of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, who was recently sentenced to life imprisonment. A Federal High Court in Abuja had convicted Kanu on several […] More