President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday lifted the six-month State of Emergency he declared in Rivers State and directed the suspended governor, Sim Fubara, his...
The U.S. Mission in Nigeria has issued a statement to remind Nigerians that U.S. visa application fees are non-refundable and non-transferable, regardless of the...
The Niger State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of seven suspects in connection with the death of Abdulwahab Jafar, a 23-year-old student at...
One year after his refinery began producing gasoline, Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote has declared that the country's decades-long struggle with fuel queues is finally...
Governor Umar Bago of Niger State is defending a new, highly controversial regulation requiring preachers to submit their sermons for government approval before they...
The Federal Government, led by President Bola Tinubu, has suspended a newly implemented 4% Free on Board (FOB) import charge collected by the Nigeria...
A middle-aged trader, Bosede Iluyemi, has been arrested in Akure, the capital of Ondo State, for allegedly killing her elder sister, Omowumi Tewogboye, in...
The Department of State Services (DSS) has filed five criminal charges against activist Omoyele Sowore and two tech companies, X and Meta (Facebook), alleging...
Daniel Bwala, the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, has publicly criticized former presidential candidate Peter Obi for his history of...
LAFIA — Retired General Nuhu Angbazo has emerged victorious from the Africa Democratic Congress, ADC, governorship primaries in Nasarawa State, calling on all party faithful to sheathe their swords and rally behind a common vision for the state's development.
In a press statement issued shortly after his victory...
Nigeria has enough installed generation to power a mid-sized country. The grid delivers less than half of it. Around the world, the race to build AI-ready power infrastructure is already underway — and the decisions African governments and investors make in the next eighteen months will determine...
by Cheta Nwanze
The 1990 film Green Card told a relatively innocent story: a French immigrant and an American woman enter a marriage of convenience so he can stay in the US. They barely know each other. They hope never to see each other again after the deal...
In the competitive landscape of legal services, personal injury and medical malpractice attorneys are finding themselves overshadowed by competitors who dominate online visibility. The root of this issue lies in the digital presence that many firms lack. While traditional word-of-mouth referrals still hold value, the digital age...
Dr. Lazarus AngbazoThe nascent AI revolution is not just driving electricity consumption and massive demand for additional capacity—it is reshaping how power is built, maintained, and delivered. For Africa, the real risk is no longer just insufficient capacity—it is also losing control and ability to manage the capacity it...
By Bunmi Onabanjo-Kuku
The first thing you feel when you land in a country is not its culture, not its cuisine, not its people. It is its airport. That threshold, the space between the jet bridge and the city beyond, tells you everything a nation believes about itself...
How inflation, energy insecurity, power scarcity, and geopolitical fragmentation are reshaping the risk-return case for African infrastructure
By Dr. Lazarus Angbazo
At a recent global infrastructure summit, the prevailing mood among institutional investors was unmistakable. Faced with surging capital requirements for energy transition, grid expansion, and digital infrastructure in Europe and...
Nigeria’s biggest local investor, Aliko Dangote, is moving ahead with plans to launch what could become Africa’s largest initial public offering, as Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals prepares to raise up to $5 billion from investors.
The share sale is expected to open as early as May, with...
Criminal networks have turned Nigeria’s telecom towers into open-air warehouses for theft, looting 656 critical power assets across 14 states in 2025 alone and keeping up the pace in early 2026.
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) data showed the haul included 152 generators and 504 batteries stolen from...
I have seen enough cycles of tension and resolution to recognise when restraint must prevail over confrontation. The current standoff between the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the African Democratic Congress (ADC) is one such moment. In early April 2026, INEC withdrew recognition of the Senator...
10 months until the 2027 general elections, Nigeria’s opposition landscape appears increasingly fractured, disorganised and strategically weakened.
Although no fewer than 21 political parties have been registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to participate in the polls, developments within the parties, including internal crises, litigations and other destabilising factors, may...
Nigeria’s business environment continued to expand in March 2026 but slowed as rising input costs and power supply deficits weighed on performance, according to the latest Business Confidence Monitor (BCM) report by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG).
The report indicates that the Current Business Performance Index declined...
