Two separate correspondences to the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) have raised allegations of financial and administrative irregularities in implementing a strategic communication initiative involving Nigeria’s security and response agencies. Documents obtained by PRNigeria accuse an ONSA official of sidelining organisations originally engaged for the project and altering an initial funding arrangement after the initiative commenced. The concerns relate to the Strategic Communication Interagency Policy Committee (SCIPC), an initiative approved by the National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, to strengthen coordination and crisis communication among security, intelligence and emergency response agencies. The correspondence, dated December 23, 2024,…
Author: Abimbola Ogunaike
President Bola Tinubu has extended his working vacation by a few days and is expected to return to Nigeria at the weekend, the Presidency announced on Monday, 21 September, 2026. Tinubu departed Nigeria on August 30 for London to begin the vacation before travelling to Paris, France, where he met French President Emmanuel Macron and businessman Vincent Bolloré. In a statement on Monday, 21 September, 2026 the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said Tinubu had remained in touch with developments at home and continued to direct the affairs of the country while away. The statement said…
Operatives of the Abia State Police Command have arrested four persons over alleged conspiracy, child stealing and trafficking, just as they also rescued a four-day-old baby and the baby’s mentally unstable mother, reports thegazellenews.com. The Abia State State Police Command Public Relations Officer, DSP Mauren Chinaka, who made this disclosure through a statement on Monday, 21 September, 2026, gave the names of the arrested suspects as Gladys Nathaniel, Victor Udochukwu, Chijioke Obunwa and Onyeonoro Chinwe. According to Chinaka, officers of the Violent Crimes Response Unit, VCRU, Rapid Response Unit, RRU, Obehie, arrested the suspects on September 16, 2026, for conspiracy,…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Monday, 21 September, 2026, revealed the circumstances surrounding Peter Obi’s failure to win the 2023 presidential election in Rivers State. Reports have it that there have been allegations that the outcome of the polls, particularly in Rivers State, was manipulated to favour the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Peter Obi, who was the presidential flagbearer of the Labour Party (LP) in the last election, had instead claimed that he won the election in Rivers State. Speaking during an interview on TVC News on Monday, 21 September, 2026, Wike, a…
Famous Nollywood actress, Bimbo Akintola has revealed that she was pushed to publicly support President Bola Ahmed Tinubu during the last presidential election after being annoyed by online bullying over political choices. Akintola made the disclosure during an interview with Chude, where she criticised Nigerians for attacking people over their political preferences. According to the actress, the treatment of veteran actress Joke Silva over her support for Tinubu also influenced her decision to openly declare her support for the APC presidential candidate. “I supported President Bola Ahmed Tinubu during the last election because Nigerians annoyed me with their bullying,” Akintola…
A former President of the Nigerian Senate, Anyim Pius Anyim, has said that nobody from the Southeast will become President of Nigeria without an alliance with other regions,, saying this was the reason he left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Ahead of the 2027 general elections, Anyim is one of the Southeast politicians who have joined the ruling party and declared their support for President Bola Tinubu’s second term. The presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Peter Obi, from the Southeast, is one of the most popular contenders in the…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has named three All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors opposed to his Rainbow Coalition ahead of the 2027 general elections. Wike’s remarks came following an escalating disagreement between him and the leadership of the APC Governors’ Forum over the Rainbow Coalition. Speaking during an interview on Journalist Hangout, a programme on TVC, Wike, a former Governor of Rivers state listed the Governors as: Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma; Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq; and Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun. According to him, other APC Governors had no problem with the Rainbow…
The presidential candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, Engineer Seyi Makinde, and current Governor of Oyo State on Monday, 21 September, 2026 declared that he will defeat the incumbent president, Bola Tinubu, in the 2027 presidential election, reports thegazellenews.com Makinde spoke on Monday while receiving some members of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), from different parts of the state who joined the APM, explained that he would triumph over Tinubu in the election because God, the people of the state and Nigerians in general are behind the party. While stating that he would win the forthcoming presidential election and…
By Daniel Oluwatobiloba Popoola Nigerian singer, Tiwa Savage, has jokingly declared that she too deserves to “partake” in the money being spent on cars, chains and private jets within the entertainment industry, questioning why such extravagant spending persists despite her more than a decade in the music business. Savage made the remark in a video shared on her Instagram page, where she was seen eating cereal while addressing the subject of lavish spending among entertainers. “I must also partake in this money you people are spending on cars, chains, planes because the devil is what…” she said in the clip.…
By Daniel Oluwatobiloba Popoola The Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, has ruled out any increase in electricity tariffs, insisting that the Federal Government remains focused on improving electricity supply and strengthening the financial and physical foundations of the power sector rather than imposing additional costs on consumers. Tegbe made the disclosure on Monday, 21 September, 2026, at a media parley in Abuja marking his first 100 days in office, where he explained that the electricity sector was constrained across the entire value chain, with challenges that could not be solved by simply adding new generation capacity. He said his first…