By FRED LONGJOHN OBEH BENIN’S women’s national team will host Nigeria’s Super Falcons in Lomé, Togo, for their 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) qualifier. The Benin Football Federation confirmed the venue switch after the Confederation of African Football (CAF) rejected all proposed home stadiums in Benin. The first leg will take place at […]
By FIDELUS ZWANSON AS Nigeria prepares to roll out sweeping tax reforms in January 2026, expectations are high that President Bola Tinubu’s administration will finally deliver a system that is fairer, simpler, and more growth-driven. Yet, beneath the optimism lies a complex web of fiscal, administrative, and political challenges that could determine whether this ambitious […]
By TAYO TAIWO (T.T.) OLUWOLE THE Ruby Awareness Initiative Foundation (RAIF) has marked the 2025 World Mental Health Day with a school outreach at Holywood International School, Asaba, focusing on the theme “Access to Services: Mental Health in Catastrophes and Emergencies.” In partnership with the Mental Health Department of FMC Asaba, the event featured lectures, […]
By ESTHER McWILLIS-IKHIDE Renowned human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has announced plans to take legal action against multinational oil companies accused of polluting and neglecting host communities in the Niger Delta region. Falana made this known in Port Harcourt during the 30th Ken Saro-Wiwa Memorial Lecture, where he strongly condemned the continuous degradation of […]
By ANITA KNIGHT THE Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has named 203 tertiary institutions that failed to upload their students’ data for the ongoing 2024/2025 student loan application. The agency said the affected institutions risk disqualifying their students from the current loan cycle if they do not comply within the next 48 hours. In a […]
By NJORIGE LYNUS FOR decades, Nigeria’s political class has been dogged by one recurring scandal: certificate forgery. From governors to ministers, senators to presidents, the allegations cut across party lines, generations, and governments. Recent revelations about Uche Nnaji, Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, have once again pulled the issue into public view—reviving questions about […]
By DAVID JOHN-FLUKE WHEN U.S. Senator Ted Cruz stood before Congress last week to introduce the Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act of 2025, his message was clear — and damning. He accused the Nigerian government of enabling what he described as the “systematic extermination of Christians.” The Texas senator’s speech, later echoed on his podcast […]
By PAULINA NZERUBE IN Nigeria’s long history of state creation, maps have never been mere geography. Each new state is a reordering of power, a redistribution of resources, and a chance to correct political and social imbalances. From the 1967 restructuring that birthed 12 states to the 1996 exercise that gave us Bayelsa and Ebonyi, […]
By HAUWA MAGANA WHEN the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Prize for Literature announced SANYA by Oyin Olugbile as its 2025 winner, it did more than honour a novel — it celebrated a voice that has given new meaning to silence, womanhood, and memory in African fiction. The $100,000 award — Africa’s most prestigious literary […]
By STELLA JOHNSON OGBOVOVEH EVERY basket of tomatoes, every bag of rice, and every tuber of yam that reaches Nigerian markets carries an invisible tax — a toll extracted not by law, but by corruption. Across the nation’s highways, truck drivers ferrying food items are bled dry at countless checkpoints manned by police, soldiers, road […]