Idowu Bankole

The Naira yesterday appreciated to N1,455 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,465 per dollar on Monday.

As preparations begin for the 2027 general elections, residents of Delta State are being urged to reject money politics and personality-based voting, and instead focus on competence, integrity, and genuine service to the people. In recent election cycles, politics driven by cash handouts, ethnic sentiment, zoning and personal loyalty has continued to undermine good governance

The U.S. has sent a small team of troops to Nigeria, the general in charge of the U.S. command for Africa said yesterday

The Nigerian Press Organisation, NPO, yesterday urged President Bola Tinubu and the National Assembly to enact urgent measures to safeguard Nigeria’s journalism ecosystem from the dominance of unregulated global digital platforms.

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has assured a World Bank delegation, led by Managing Director of Operations, Anna Bjerde, that Nigeria’s bold economic reforms were irreversible, framing them as essential for harnessing the nation’s vast potentialities, amid its youthful population and arable lands.

“The vagabonds in PDP; they grew up in 2015. They had their time and 10 years — a decade — they practised their ‘vagabondcy’ in the PDP. But they were expelled in November 2025, so no more vagabonds in PDP…So whatever it is that they are doing, you should be able to trace it back

By Ozioruva Aliu BENIN CITY – ‎CONTROVERSY on Tuesday continued to trail last week’s emergence of Sen. Francis Alimikhena as the Okumagbe of Wanno kingdom in Etsako East local government area of Edo State. Alimikhena represented Edo North in the Senate from 2015 to 2023. He was elected Okumagbe amidst claims of postponement by the

British prosecutors have told the Southwark Crown Court in London that Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, spent about £140,000 on luxury furniture and decorative art in a single day.