By Udu Yakubu When vindictiveness, vendetta and prejudice take hold, injustice can look like justice. That is the core problem with sustained narratives around contested claims that are repeated so often and eventually presented as settled fact. At the heart of the mischief-driven stories built around Abubakar Malami are disputed assets which, over months, hardened into accusations propagated as abuse-of-office narratives. For months, Abubakar Malami, SAN, Nigeria’s immediate past Attorney General and Minister of Justice, has been the subject of sustained allegations by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The allegations were specific and severe: terrorism financing, missing trillions…
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The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, on Saturday, 27 December, 2025 said that the N600 billion left in the Rivers State coffers after the lifting of the emergency rule in the state is attracting political interest. Wike stated this when he met with members of the Rivers State House of Assembly at their legislative quarters along Aba Road in Port Harcourt, the state capital. It was gathered that the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Martin Amaewhule, had during one of the sittings said that the immediate past administrator of the state, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas…
Thugs on Sunday, 28 December, 2025, stripped naked the Chief Executive Officer of Hosamudia Farm, Don Pedro Obaseki, in Benin City, the Edo State capital. Don Pedro Obaseki is also a film producer and director. In a video circulating on the internet on Sunday, 28 December, 2025, Obaseki, a cousin of former Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki, was seen being attacked at Uwa Primary School, where he had gone to play football. Pedro was reportedly taken to the palace and made to kneel at the gate of the Oba’s Palace. The thugs reportedly told palace guards that they had brought…
Ahead of an official engagement in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, President Bola Tinubu on Sunday, 28 December, 2025 departed Lagos for Europe to continue his end-of-year break. The President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, who confirmed the development on Sunday, 28 December, 2025, said Tinubu left Lagos on Sunday, 28 December, 2025 and would proceed from Europe to Abu Dhabi in early January. The President, according to Onanuga, has been invited by Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, to participate in the 2026 edition of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week…
President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has urged the people of Remoland to strengthen unity and cooperation with their Ijebu kinsmen in pursuit of the proposed Ijebu-Remo State, describing harmony as essential to the realisation of the collective aspiration. Senator Akpabio made the call at the 2025 Remo Day celebration held at the Akarigbo Pavilion in Sagamu, themed “One People, Diverse Cultures, One Identity.” He praised the Remo people as industrious, enterprising and astute industrialists, noting that their spirit of cooperation would be pivotal to the creation of the new state. “I want to urge the Remo people to…
Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has congratulated the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mr Oluwatosin Ajayi, on his commendation by the Nigerian National Committee of the International Press Institute (IPI), describing the recognition as a strong affirmation of professionalism and respect for democratic values. The honour was bestowed on the DSS Director-General at the IPI’s annual conference held earlier this month in Abuja, an event at which President Bola Tinubu also acknowledged the evolving and more constructive relationship between the nation’s security agencies and the media. In a statement issued on Saturday, 27 December, 2025 in…
My birth dad died in 1990. 15 years later, precisely August 2005, God gave me a new dad. In the last two decades, he has been a breathing Gibraltar. I had set my mind on an extraordinary celebration of his extraordinary life. Then he gave an advance warning; no public mention of milestones, despite raking enough to fill a barn. A major lesson from my dad is not to be loud even when achieving fantastically. Yoruba will say when one’s yam is fully cooked, his hands should arc over it while eating. It is also not every fabric that needs…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a previously convicted drug trafficker and three accomplices after intercepting a consignment of cocaine concealed in sealed sachets of liquid starch meant for export to the United Kingdom through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. According to a statement on Sunday, 28 December, 2025 by the spokesman of the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi operatives of the agency uncovered 75 wraps of cocaine weighing 1.5 kilogrammes at the airport’s export shed. He disclosed that three freight agents: Jubrin Hassana, Kuku Oluwasegun and Igwe Jane — were arrested on Saturday, 20 December,…
By Tunde Rahman To state that there are gaps in the implementation of the 2024 and 2025 budgets is actually stating the obvious. One does not need to be an economist or an expert in fiscal matters to know this. Top government functionaries charged with budgetary matters have all made the point and confirmed that the budgets were not fully funded for apparent reasons. This admission reflects an attribute typically rare in government – transparency. In August, at a stakeholders’ engagement on the implementation of the 2025 capital budget and related issues in Abuja, Dr. Tanimu Yakubu, the Director-General of…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Saturday, 27 December, 2025, attended the Grand Finale of the week-long 2025 Eyo Festival, in a white robe, a damask sash slung over his shoulder, and a distinctive hat emblazoned with bold, decorative stars. Like other revellers, the President also carried a long staff called an opambata. The colourful event, held at Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos, began with paying homage and presenting the festival staff to the President at his Lagos residence on Sunday, 21 December, 2025. The Eyo Festival, which dates back to 1854, was held this year for the first time in…