27+ min ago   (512+ words) September 13, 2026 by Musa Umar Bologi, Abuja The Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande Wisdom, has pledged to develop joint youth empowerment, skills acquisition and community security programmes with the Vigilante Group of Nigeria (VGN). Olawande made the commitment on at…...

6+ hour, 19+ min ago   (738+ words) September 13, 2026 by Bolaji Ogundele, Abuja Vice President Kashim Shettima has described the death of former Governor of old Gongola State, Alhaji Bamanga Muhammad Tukur, as a monumental loss to Nigeria and Africa, saying the country has lost a patriot, global…...

7+ hour, 26+ min ago   (265+ words) September 13, 2026 by Our Reporter The Positive Proof Women Health Care Empowerment Initiative (POPWHEI) Advocacy Watch Party was last week inducted and positioned as a key Advocacy Watch Party and accountability mechanism to advance comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) rights under the…...

11+ hour, 24+ min ago   (672+ words) The Nation Newspaper September 13, 2026 by Igboeli Arinze The many sins of Benjamin Kalu Every so often, Nigerian politics throws up a figure who forces even his fiercest critics to search for new insults, because the old ones — the tired charges…...

9+ hour, 13+ min ago   (213+ words) September 13, 2026 by Osagie Otabor, Benin Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, has carried out a minor cabinet reshuffle. This is the second time Governor Okpebholo would be carrying out a minor cabinet reshuffle. A statement by Secretary to the Edo State…...

7+ hour, 4+ min ago   (520+ words) September 13, 2026 by Our Reporter The purported anti-Northern region comment attributed to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, circulating on social media, was fabricated and politically motivated by fake news merchants, the Convener of the Arewa Think Tank, Muhammad Alhaji Yakubu, has…...

10+ hour, 3+ min ago   (1612+ words) September 13, 2026 by Emmanuel Oladesu, Deputy Editor, Bolaji Ogundele, Abuja, Tony Akowe, Abuja and Onimisi Alao, Yola President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, northern governors and other eminent Nigerians have mourned the death of elder statesman and former governor of the old Gongola…...

17+ hour, 21+ min ago   (585+ words) September 12, 2026 by Tony Akowe, Abuja Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio and his Deputy, Senator Barau Jibrin, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen and his Deputy, Benjamin Kalu are among 4,864 candidates of the contesting the available 469 National Assembly seat…...

11+ hour, 40+ min ago   (797+ words) What Atiku’s US lobbyists tell us The Nation Newspaper September 13, 2026 by Palladium What Atiku’s US lobbyists tell us When former vice president Atiku Abubakar engaged a United States-based lobbying firm, Von Batten-Montague-York LC, last March for $1.2m to burnish his public…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (576+ words) September 11, 2026 by Vincent Ikuomola Abuja The Nigerian Citizens Association South Africa (NICASA) has condemned the murder of Bishop Taiwo Michael Fakunle, a Nigerian, in South Africa. Bishop Taiwo, 58, was reportedly killed last Friday at his residence in Kensington, Johannesburg. According…...