Notes From Atlanta Tinubu’s Türkiye Fiasco Spotlights His Age, Health and Wife Farooq A. Kperogi Saturday, January 31, 2026 Turkiye By Farooq A. Kperogi President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s state visit to Türkiye this week dramatized two uncomfortable realities: the visible…
Former Nigerian senator Dino Melaye has faced criticism after declaring that corrupt leaders in Nigeria deserve jail time for the state in which they left the country. Melaye shared a video of himself in a luxury car, driving through a…
The Rivers Restoration Movement (RRM), a grassroots political mobilisation group, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to sack his media aide, Daniel Bwala, over what it described as an “unwarranted” verbal attack on the FCT Minister, Barr Nyesom Wike. RRM…
The proposed criminal trial of Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, over the disputed property at 79 Randall Avenue, London, raises serious concerns about prosecutorial discretion, abuse of process, and misuse of criminal justice powers. A careful reading of the First-tier Tribunal…
Those who first envisioned Edo North imagined a land bound not by division, but by unity an inclusive political family where every community is seen, heard, and treated as equal. Edo North was meant to thrive on fairness, mutual respect,…
The construction workers were said to be working on a bridge being constructed at Wajiluku. Scores of construction workers have been reportedly killed by the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known…
The Nigerian Army, through the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Special Intervention Civil–Military Cooperation Scheme, has renovated the 91-year-old Magajin Rafi Model Primary School in Sokoto State. The project was recommended by its executor and alumnus of the school, Maj.-Gen.…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a Brazil-based Nigerian businessman, Uche Franklin Onyekwere, at the arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, for allegedly concealing parcels of cocaine in his private…
The Niger State Police Command has confirmed that suspected armed bandits set a police station and part of a church on fire in Agwara community in the early hours of Sunday. Police spokesperson, SP Wasiu Abiodun, said the attack occurred…
Armed bandits have attacked Agwara Local Government Area of Niger State again, setting the divisional police station and a church ablaze while abducting about five villagers in an early Sunday raid. Police said the attackers stormed the station around 3:40…
