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A review by SaharaReporters of the public payments portal, Govspend, has shown that the office responsible for debt management in Nigeria, the Debt Management Office spent N52.1million on tea for its staff in 2025.  Records on the portal show that on August 29, 2025, a sum of N8.6 million was paid to Diamond Seasons Nigeria […]

The death toll from heavy rains and flooding in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, and other parts of the country has nearly doubled to 42, the government announced in a statement issued late Sunday.  The disaster followed intense rains on Friday that triggered widespread flooding across several areas, leaving residents trapped, sweeping away vehicles, and disrupting traffic

Terrorists locally dubbed as bandits on Monday abducted the Secretary of Okeluju Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Akoko North-West Local Government Area of Ondo State, Joseph Aladesuyi, alongside two other individuals in the Akure North Local Government Area of the state.  The incident, which occurred around 10am on Monday, took place at a poultry

Despite fiscal provisions in Nigeria which frown at government funds being paid into private accounts, the Nigerian government has paid amounts running into over N2billion into the personal accounts of four ex-militants for the 2025 fiscal year. This development is based on a review of the public payments portal, Govspend.

United States President, Donald Trump, has criticised Iran’s decision to appoint Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader, saying Tehran “made a big mistake” by elevating the son of the late leader Ali Khamenei. Trump made the remarks in an interview with NBC News cited by Aljazeera following reports that Mojtaba Khamenei had assumed

The Kwara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is deepening in crisis, following protests in the Irepodun Local Government Area over allegations of manipulation and imposition of party executives. Aggrieved party members staged a protest on Sunday at the Irepodun Local Government Secretariat, accusing the state leadership of altering ward and local government

The crisis around political appointments in Rivers State deepened on Monday as the state House of Assembly rejected four out of the nine commissioner-nominees submitted by Governor Siminalayi Fubara for screening and confirmation.  The lawmakers, however, approved five nominees for appointment into the State Executive Council after subjecting them to a screening exercise that lasted

Troops of the Chief of Army Staff Special Intervention Battalion 7 and the 8 Division Strike Team have carried out an operation against suspected terrorists in Kadam Forest in Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The troops were operating under the Joint Task Force North West Operation FANSAN YAMMA during the operation. According to

Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State has defected from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in a dramatic political development that has further deepened the crisis rocking Nigeria’s political opposition. SaharaReporters gathered on Monday that the governor dumped the PDP alongside his deputy, Mani Malam Mummuni, and several

An extensive report has exposed a web of “bastardisation of TETFund interventions, academic fraud, administrative malfeasance, and abuse of office” at the Federal College of Education (FCE), Eha-Amufu, Enugu State.    The allegations centre on the Provost, Dr. (Mrs.) Pauline Ngozi Ikwuegbu, who is accused of converting the institution into a personal estate characterized by