President Bola Tinubu has approved the inclusion of the construction of Itawure-Aramoko-Ado Ekiti and Aramoko-Ijero-Ifaki Ekiti roads in the 2026 budget of the Federal Government. A press statement on Wednesday, signed by Olayinka Oyebode, Special Adviser (Media) to the Ekiti State Governor, noted that a letter to this effect has since been forwarded from the Office of the President to the Honourable Minister of Works, Engr. David Umahi, while Governor Biodun Oyebanji was copied. The...

Alhaji Ahmed Usman Ododo, Governor of Kogi State has congratulated the Governor of Edo State, Senator Monday Okpebholo, on the occasion of his first year in office. In a personally signed congratulatory message on Wednesday, Governor Ododo commended Governor Monday Okpebholo for the strides recorded in Edo State within just one year, noting that his focus on good governance, infrastructural renewal, youth empowerment, and economic reforms has placed the state on a path of sustainable...

A dramatic confrontation unfolded on Tuesday in Abuja’s Gaduwa District when Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), was prevented by uniformed soldiers from gaining access to a parcel of land in the FCT. The land in question, identified as Plot 1946 in Gaduwa, is allegedly linked to retired Awwal Zubairu Gambo, the former Chief of Naval Staff. Soldiers blocked Mr. Wike and officials from the Federal Capital Territory Development Administration (FCTDA) from...

Senator Uche Ekwunife (Iyom), Ph.D., CON, deputy-governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the recently-concluded Anambra State gubernatorial poll, has issued a message of congratulations to incumbent Governor Chukwuma Soludo, following his triumph in the election, while also expressing deep gratitude to her campaign supporters. In a statement titled “A MESSAGE OF CONGRATULATIONS TO PROF. CHUKWUMA SOLUDO AND GRATITUDE TO MY ESTEEMED SUPPORTERS”, Ekwunife addressed her “Brothers, Sisters, Friends, Supporters, and Ndi Anambra.”...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of Dr John Nwabueze as the Tax Ombudsman of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in line with the provisions of the Joint Revenue Board of Nigeria (Establishment) Act, 2025. According to a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the appointment reflects the President’s commitment to implementing “far-reaching and sustainable reforms in the tax and revenue administration framework.” Dr...

The Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed 20 November 2025 for the delivery of judgment in the terrorism case against the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Mr Kanu is charged with seven counts of terrorism linked to his campaign for the secession of Nigeria’s southeastern region. He has pleaded not guilty. The court’s judge, James Omotosho, said that Mr Kanu had failed, for the sixth time, to enter...