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 […]
By PAULINA NZERUBE DELTA State Sports Commission Chairman, Onoriode Joshua Oborevwori, will receive the Best Sports Commissioner Award at the 2025 Nigeria-France Sports Awards in Paris on 20 October. Organisers said the award recognises his “transformative leadership” and contribution to grassroots and youth sports development. Since assuming office in November 2024, Oborevwori has repositioned Delta […]
By NJORIGE LYNUS THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed alarm over Nigeria’s declining voter turnout, which dropped to 26.7% in the 2023 presidential election, the lowest since 2011. INEC Chairman’s Chief Technical Adviser, Prof. Bolade Eyinla, revealed this at a YIAGA Africa retreat in Abuja, warning that fewer than half of registered voters […]
By TOSI ORE MARKING the International Day of the Girl Child, the Young Communicators Initiative (YCI) has launched the Vision 2035 AI-Athon — a first-of-its-kind digital leadership and speech summit aimed at preparing Nigerian schoolgirls for leadership in an AI-driven future. Held in Abuja under the theme “Effective LeadHERship in a Digital Age for National […]
By FRED LONGJOHN OBEH THE Nigeria Volleyball Federation (NVBF) has rescheduled the National Division 1 and 2 Championships for male and female teams to 22 October – 2 November 2025, in Umuahia, Abia State. Originally set for 15–25 October , the NVBF said the change was to improve logistics and ensure full participation of registered […]
By TOSI ORE THE National Council of State has approved an increase in the Nigeria Police Trust Fund’s (NPTF) allocation from 0.5% to 1% of the Federation Account to ensure sustainable funding for police operations. It also endorsed the repeal and re-enactment of the NPTF Act 2019, removing the six-year sunset clause to make the […]