An outbreak of Ad Hoc House Committees – By Sonala Olumhense
While you were distracted by the executive branch’s show of shame last week through FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, something equally dramatic was unfolding in the federal legislature. The House of…
UN Experts Accuse Nigerian Oil Officials of Corruption in Big Four Asset Sales
A United Nations panel of human rights experts has accused Nigerian oil regulators and government officials, including President Bola Tinubu of collusion and corruption in their handling of multi-billion dollar…
Editorial: Tinubu’s Diplomatic Dereliction Toward America
There are derelictions born of error, and there are derelictions born of disdain. President Bola Tinubu’s refusal, or perhaps his inability to set foot in Washington, the nerve center of…
Wike, Soldiers Face-Off Over Land Issues In Abuja
Things got heated between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, his entourage, and some soldiers when he was stopped from gaining access to a land in the…
Exclusive: Tinubu Scrambles to Calm Tensions as Diplomatic Vacuum Deepens US Nigeria Rift
Nigeria finds itself navigating one of its gravest diplomatic crises in decades after US President Donald Trump’s dramatic designation of Nigeria as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) on religious-freedom…
Editorial: EFCC Public Shaming of Timipre Sylva
In the gilded halls of Nigeria’s anti-corruption architecture, a shameful spectacle now unfolds – a corrosive ritual in which a former governor and ex-Minister is declared a “wanted” man, his…
EFCC Declares Former Bayelsa Governor Timipre Sylva Wanted
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared a former Minister of Petroleum Resources and former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, wanted. In a statement signed by its…
Nigeria’s governance genocide – By Sonala Olumhense
The last time the term “genocide” was applied to Nigeria, it involved a brutal civil war from which she has yet to recover. And now, it is back, United States…
Court to deliver judgment in Kanu’s terrorism case November 20
Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed judgment for November 20 in the terrorism trial of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra…
Editorial: Donald Trump’s threat to invade Nigeria
In a world already weary of impulsive interventions and hollow declarations, President Donald Trump’s threat to invade Nigeria represents a grotesque escalation of rhetorical bullying masquerading as moral leadership. On…