Category: Politics

By Katherine Abayomi A trending video on Facebook has sparked widespread reactions, prompting the management of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) to respond and clarify the situation surrounding a building shown in the footage. The video, which depicts a deroofed apartment allegedly under the hospital’s authority, was said to have been posted…

Senior representatives of the United States and Nigerian governments, along with business leaders from both countries’ private sectors, convened in Abuja to officially launch the working group meetings of the United States–Nigeria Commercial and Investment Partnership (CIP). The Partnership, established under a five-year Memorandum of Understanding signed in July 2024 by U.S. Secretary of Commerce…

By Emamuzo Iboma The Minister of Women Affairs, Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, has said that empowering women politically and economically is the most effective path out of Nigeria’s current economic downturn. Speaking at the Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Coordination Mechanism and Institutional Strengthening Meeting held on Tuesday in Abuja, jointly organized by UN Women Nigeria and…

By Prince Woke The Azikiwe Police Division in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Tuesday evening, June 24, 2025, questioned staff of a private school located in Eagle Island over the alleged burning of a 14-year-old female student with a hot pressing iron by the school principal. It was gathered that residents at Amazing Grace Junction…

Says It is nothing but Encouraging Fiscal Indiscipline The Network for the Actualization of Social Growth and Viable Development (NEFGAD), a prominent public procurement and fiscal responsibility advocacy group in Nigeria, has strongly criticized the National Assembly for what it described as a dangerous pattern of promoting fiscal indiscipline through the repeated extension of national…

By Emamuzo Iboma The inaugural meeting of Competent National Authorities (CNA) of ECOWAS Member States responsible for the enforcement of judgments of the Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS, has commenced in Lagos, Nigeria. The two-day meeting, holding from June 23 to 24, 2025, is themed Enhancing the Role, Relevance, and Effectiveness of the ECOWAS Court…

By Emamuzo Iboma The Netherlands has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting Nigeria’s ongoing reforms in migration governance and border security. This commitment was demonstrated on Monday during a visit by a Dutch delegation led by Mr. Jurgen Bartelink, Chargé D’Affaires of the Embassy of the Netherlands, to the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Headquarters in Abuja….

By Emamuzo Iboma Nigeria has expressed its commitment to hosting the Africa Infrastructure and Climate Change Investment Summit (AICIS), scheduled to take place from August 11 to 14, 2025. The Nigerian government emphasized that as the world accelerates efforts to address the dual challenges of climate change and infrastructure deficits, Africa—including Nigeria—must not remain a…

…says $17bn annual illicit financial flow loss would have made impact The United Nations has advised Nigeria to adopt alternative models of funding to drive its economy, following cuts in Official Development Assistance (ODA) from major donors to poor and developing countries. The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mohamed Fall, gave the…

By Emamuzo Iboma An Ikeja Special Offences Court has adjourned ruling on an application by former Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele seeking forensic analysis of WhatsApp evidence in a $4.5 billion fraud case. Emefiele is currently standing trial on a 19-count charge bordering on receiving gratification and corrupt demands. His co-defendant, Henry Omoile, is facing…