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UN issues stark warning to Nigeria over rising insecurity

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has issued its starkest warning yet on...

Tinubu govt to directly tax bank money Nigerians can’t explain

From 2026, the federal government will start deducting taxes directly from the bank accounts...

Crypto crash wipes out $400bn as bitcoin falls to lowest level since April

The global cryptocurrency market has suffered one of its biggest drops this year, losing...

Africa faces sanitation crisis as 780 million go without basic services

Nearly 780 million people in Africa still lack basic sanitation services, the African Ministers’...

Biafra campaigner Nnamdi Kanu sentenced to life in jail

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday convicted Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of...

Tinubu faces fierce backlash over wave of deadly attacks

Public anger is boiling over in Nigeria after a string of deadly attacks across...

Insurgents last killed a Nigerian Army general in 2021. Here’s what happened

The killing of Brigadier-General M. Uba marks one of the deadliest setbacks for the...

ISWAP says it captured and killed Nigerian Army general after ambush

Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has released a statement claiming it abducted and...

Tantalizers signs major U.S. seafood export deal amid Nigeria’s fisheries scrutiny

Tantalizers Plc has signed a five-year multimillion-dollar offtake agreement with U.S.-based Harvester Fisheries LLC...

Ericsson sues Tecno, Infinix maker Transsion in four countries, including Nigeria

Ericsson says it has been “compelled” to sue Transsion, the Chinese company behind Tecno,...

Nigeria shelves 15% fuel import tax seen as protecting Dangote Refinery

The Nigerian government has suspended the planned implementation of a 15% import duty on...

Investigation: As Nigeria’s fishers face deadly attacks & declining stocks, govt looks away

The first part of this series captured the stories of piracy, loss, and survival...

Looming tax on Nigerian stocks rattles investors. Govt tries to clarify again

The federal government’s tax reform committee has published more details of a new capital...

Religious Violence: African, Caribbean, Pacific states urge global action

The Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) has condemned the surge in...

Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Imo top states with most miserable health budgets

Akwa Ibom and Imo have the lowest budget allocations for health in Nigeria, according...

Nigeria fails health readiness test for second year as no state scores 30%

Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the weaknesses in Nigeria’s healthcare system, the...

Facebook parent, Meta, earns billions from scam ads, internal docs show

Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, internally estimated that...

U.S. draws up military plans for Nigeria after Trump’s order

The United States military has begun drafting possible intervention plans for Nigeria after President...

Amid Trump threats, SSS updates on 2011 UN House bombing, other terror cases

Nigeria’s secret police, the State Security Services (SSS), has released an unusually detailed update...

Trump’s military threat shakes Nigerian markets as stocks, naira, and bonds fall

Nigerian financial markets fell on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened possible military...