By Daniel Oluwatobiloba Popoola Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Taiwo Oyedele, has declared that Nigeria is firmly on course for investment grade status, describing Moody’s revision of the country’s sovereign credit outlook from stable to positive as an important external validation of the Tinubu administration’s three-year reform programme. Moody’s announced the decision on Friday, 28 August, 2026, affirming Nigeria’s long-term foreign and local currency issuer ratings at B3 while upgrading the outlook, citing stronger external buffers, rising foreign exchange reserves and sustained reform momentum. The Federal Ministry of Finance welcomed the action on Friday, August 29, 2026.…
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By Daniel Oluwatobiloba Popoola Former Nigerian Senator Shehu Sani has called on the military-led governments of Sahel countries to rejoin the Economic Community of West African States, saying the attack on Niamey has exposed the vulnerability and fragility of Niger’s ruling military regime and laid bare the dangerous security trajectory across the subregion. Sani made the call in a statement posted on his X handle on Saturday, 29 August, 2026 following the attack on the Nigerien capital. He said the Niamey attack reflects a trend that military governments across the Sahel have consistently failed to reverse. “Today’s attacks on Niamey,…
By Daniel Oluwatobiloba Popoola Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has pledged to attend the 70th birthday celebration of the Olota of Ota, Oba Professor Abdulkabir Obalanlege, but asked to be excused from the 80th on the grounds that he would be nearly 110 years old by then. The 89-year-old elder statesman made the lighthearted remark while speaking in Yoruba at the monarch’s 60th birthday celebration, opening with a prayer before the humour took over. “Kabiyesi, I called you this morning and prayed for you,” he said. He then worked through the arithmetic with the crowd at the monarch’s 70th birthday in…
By Daniel Oluwatobiloba Popoola Afrobeats singer Seun Kuti has declared that he would not leave his wife if she cheats on him, saying infidelity means nothing in a relationship and that African men who react strongly to cheating are simply being hypocritical. Kuti made the statement while discussing marriage and how couples respond to infidelity. “If my wife cheats on me, I won’t leave her because it doesn’t mean anything,” he said, adding that African men were pretending cheating is not a normal part of relationships. “African men are forming as if cheating isn’t a normal thing in a relationship,”…
lBy Adetutu Audu Oluyemisi Debo-Adesina, wife of veteran journalist and former Nigerian Ambassador to Togo, Debo Adesina, has issued a public appeal for financial support as her husband battles for his life in a Canadian hospital, with outstanding medical bills exceeding two hundred and five thousand Canadian dollars. Oluyemisi made the appeal in a statement titled “Urgent Appeal for Support for Adebowale Adesina,” addressed to friends, former colleagues, professional associates and all those whose lives her husband touched over the years. She said the outstanding medical bills had exceeded CAN$250,000 as at Monday, 24 August 2026 and continued to accumulate…
The Chairman of Apapa Iganmu Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Hon. Jimoh Olawale Saliu, has ordered the sealing of Aratumi Shopping Plaza and Ilorin Motor Garage in the Sari area of the council for failing to participate in the monthly environmental sanitation exercise. The council Chairman also directed the immediate removal of shops erected on the culverts along Olaitan Street, warning that structures that are not removed risk demolition. Jimoh issued the directives on Saturday while monitoring the monthly environmental sanitation exercise across various wards of the council. Expressing displeasure over the poor attitude of some residents and business owners…
By Daniel Oluwatobiloba Popoola Former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Dr. Oluyinka Ogundimu will chair the 30th Anniversary Celebration and Church Building Dedication of the Decross Gospel Mission IKJ branch, as the church marks three decades of ministry with the commissioning of its new permanent auditorium. The event holds on Sunday, 30 August 30, 2026, 12 noon at the Church Auditorium, 13, Michael Akinola Street, Onipetesi Estate, Mangoro, Ikeja, Lagos. All guests are requested to attend in white attire. The General Overseer of Decross Gospel Mission Worldwide, Prof. Evang. Ebenezer Obey, will preside over the occasion…
By Daniel Oluwatobiloba Popoola Tanzanian singer Juma Jux has flatly denied fathering a child with a Tanzanian woman identified as Musika, saying he has never been physically intimate with her and that the matter has been handed to legal authorities for further action. Jux broke his silence days after he and his wife, Nigerian actress Priscilla Ojo Mkambala, celebrated the first birthday of their son, Rakeem, saying the allegation had surfaced previously but he chose to address it publicly after it began involving his name, family and businesses. He said he reached out directly to Musika to understand why she…
By Daniel Oluwatobiloba Popoola Pastor Jerry Eze, founder of Streams of Joy International, has gifted gospel singer Nathaniel Bassey a Range Rover as a 45th birthday surprise, secretly coordinating with the singer’s wife to execute a plan that Bassey said left him completely speechless. Bassey turned 45 on Thursday, 27 August, and disclosed the gift in an Instagram post on Friday, 28 August,2026 saying he typically keeps personal matters private but chose to share this one publicly. He revealed that Pastor Eze quietly reached out to his wife and planned the surprise without his knowledge. When his wife suggested a…
By Daniel Oluwatobiloba Popoola The Federal Government has ordered a probe into alleged electricity theft and unaccounted power losses along the 132-kilovolt Ikorodu–Sagamu industrial corridor, with the losses estimated at 100 megawatts and the resulting annual revenue shortfall put at One Hundred and Twenty -billion. The Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, disclosed this on Friday, 28 August, 2026 in Lagos during a stakeholders’ meeting with industrial operators, electricity market participants and regulators, directing a transparent, science-based investigation into the discrepancy between electricity transmitted along the corridor and the volume billed by distribution companies. The investigation follows findings from technological monitoring…