Troops of the Joint Task Force (North East) Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), said it had swiftly repelled an ISWAP attack, and launched a devastating follow-on counter-offensive on ISWAP in Borno State. Lieutenant Colonel Sani Uba, Media Information Officer Headquarters Joint Task Force (North East) Operation HADIN KAI in a statement, said it has also degraded…
Nigeria has been ranked 142nd out of 182 countries in the 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index, CPI, Transparency International reported on Tuesday. The CPI, which measures perceived public sector corruption on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean), gave Nigeria a score of 26—unchanged from 2024. However, the country fell two places from…
Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Monday night convened an emergency security council meeting with heads of security agencies in Kwara State following the recent terrorist attack in Kaiama Local Government Area that reportedly left about 175 people dead. The meeting, held at the Ahmadu Bello House in Ilorin, was part of the state government’s response to…
The Corporate Affairs Commission has announced free business name registration for 3,500 small businesses across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Registrar-General of the Commission, Hussaini Magaji, disclosed this in a post on the commission’s on social media on Monday. According to Magaji, the initiative is aimed at reducing the cost…
More than 75 million Nigerians working in the informal sector are likely to retire without any form of pension or retirement savings, the Director-General of the National Pension Commission, Omolola Oloworaran, has said. The PenCom DG stated this on Monday in Abuja while speaking at the presentation of a licensed accredited pension agent certificate to…
The Governor of Ondo State, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has approved the confirmation and appointment of 32 officers as Permanent Secretaries in the state civil service. The appointments were announced on Monday through a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Ebenezer Adeniyan, and posted on the state’s X handle. The appointees include…
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Monday joined the Occupy National Assembly protest in Abuja. The protest follows the Senate’s passage of the Electoral Act 2022 (Repeal and Reenactment) Amendment Bill 2026 through the third reading, in which the lawmakers removed the phrase “real-time” transmission of election results. Although the…
Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed, has sacked the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Alhaji Ibrahim Gambo Galadima. The decision, which takes immediate effect, was contained in a statement issued on Monday by the governor’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mukhtar Gidado. According to the statement, the decision is part of the…
By Babatunde Tiamiyu The Oyo State Government has begun implementing measures to address bottlenecks surrounding vehicles acquired through hire purchase agreements, particularly those affecting transport operators across the state. The intervention is aimed at curbing what stakeholders described as “draconian” practises by some vehicle owners who seize vehicles despite substantial payments already made by operators…
The All Progressives Congress has explained why the newly-defected Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has not yet been officially welcomed into the party. Speaking on TVC on Sunday, APC National Chairman, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, said the delay is part of a strategic plan to manage regional sensitivities, particularly in northern states. Explaining the party’s schedule of…