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  Atiku expressed solidarity with El-Rufai, urging him to focus on reuniting peacefully with his family despite the incident. Former Vice President and 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has condemned the attempted arrest of former Kaduna State Governor and African Democratic Congress (ADC) stalwart, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, at Abuja Airport, as an embarrassment to the former governor by the operatives of the Department of the State Services (DSS). Speaking during his visit to El-Rufai on Thursday night, Atiku said the former Kaduna governor did not deserve the “embarrassing” action by the security operatives, having served as a governor and a minister in the country. Atiku expressed solidarity with El-Rufai, urging him to focus on reuniting peacefully with his family despite the incident.  “Excellency, my brother, you are welcome, and I hope in spite of what has happened at the airport, you will join members of your family to have...

  It was alleged that the church, located along the Sango-Poly road in Ibadan, has been in crisis by a lingering feud that took a dark and dangerous turn. Two members of a Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) in Ibadan, Oyo State, have been dragged before a magistrates’ court for allegedly conspiring to unleash terror on their own pastors and fellow worshippers.  It was alleged that the church, located along the Sango-Poly road in Ibadan, has been in crisis by a lingering feud that took a dark and dangerous turn. The defendants, identified as Ezekiel Akinniyi, 63, and Wale Oguntade, were arraigned on Friday before the Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, on charges preferred against them by the Nigeria Police Force.  The charges include conspiracy and unlawful threat to life. Presenting the facts before the court, Inspector Kehinde Olarotimi said Akinniyi and Oguntade, along with other accomplices still at large, took the law into their own hands during a church service. They we...

  According to TrackNG, the N634.07million could have significantly improved Nigeria’s struggling primary healthcare system if properly utilised. Civic accountability platform, TrackNG, has raised fresh concerns over public finance management in Nigeria, disclosing that N634.07million was released for Niger Delta projects that were allegedly never implemented. In a statement shared on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday, the group said the funds “left government accounts but delivered zero value to citizens,” describing the situation as a serious governance and accountability issue. TrackNG contrasted the figure with what it described as a reported N36million released to the Federal Ministry of Health in the 2025 budget cycle, noting that the amount allegedly disbursed for the unexecuted projects was more than 17 times the health ministry’s release. This comparison is more than arithmetic, it is a governance question,” the group stated. According to TrackNG, the N634.07million could hav...

  The university explained that it is standard procedure for all students to vacate hostels at the end of every academic session to allow for fumigation, renovation and other maintenance works. The management of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, (UNN) has denied allegations that it abandoned postgraduate students without accommodation, insisting that the claims circulating in some quarters are “misleading and inaccurate.”  SaharaReporters on February 11 reported that dozens of postgraduate students at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) are reportedly sleeping in open spaces and abandoned buildings after the university shut down its postgraduate hostels in November 2025, citing planned renovations that have yet to commence. Affected students say more than three months after the closure, no visible renovation work has taken place, while academic activities continue uninterrupted — leaving many stranded without accommodation. However, in a statement issued on February 13, 2...

However, nearly a decade later, only “scattered culverts, a short asphalted stretch, and an incomplete bridge” are reportedly visible at the project site. Residents of communities in Kano and Bauchi states have called for urgent intervention over the prolonged abandonment of the Sumaila–Falali–Birnin Bako–Bauchi Border Road, a federal project approved in 2017 at a cost of ₦4.57 billion. The concerns were raised in a post shared on X (formerly Twitter) by civic accountability platform, TrackNG, which highlighted the stalled state of the project and the hardship faced by affected communities. According to the post, the road project was approved under late former President Muhammadu Buhari in 2017, with the Federal Ministry of Works overseeing its execution. TrackNG alleged that between 2018 and 2020, contractors made multiple visits to the site and that over ₦1.02 billion was released for the project through the Federal Ministry of Works. However, nearly a decade later, only “scattered c...

According to the platform, a dashboard camera captured the fatal attack on the 22-year-old driver, who worked as a driver on the Bolt e-hailing platform. A Nigerian e-hailing driver has been brutally murdered in South Africa, sparking renewed concerns over the safety of Nigerian migrants and African foreign nationals living in the country amid persistent reports of violent attacks. The incident was first disclosed by CrimeInSA, a prominent South African crime-monitoring platform, in a post on X (formerly Twitter), where it revealed that the victim, identified as Isaac Satlat, was killed during a violent hijacking in Pretoria.  According to the platform, a dashboard camera captured the fatal attack on the 22-year-old driver, who worked as a driver on the Bolt e-hailing platform. “A NIGERIAN E-HAILING DRIVER MURDERED IN PRETORIA,” CrimeInSA wrote, adding that “a dash cam captured the fatal attack of a 22 year old Nigerian e-hailing/Bolt driver Isaac Satlat in Pretoria. The young man ...