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Dec

2025

FGN To Introduce Mandatory Vehicle Recycling Fee From 2026

FG To Introduce Mandatory Vehicle Recycling Fee From 2026 The Federal Government has announced plans to tap into Nigeria’s largely informal vehicle recycling market, projecting annual revenues of over N150bn from 2026, as part of sweeping reforms to modernise the country’s automotive industry. The National Automotive Design and Development Council disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday, with the Director-General, Joseph Osanipin, saying the initiative would be driven by a comprehensive End-of-Life Vehicle programme already approved for implementation. Osanipin explained that the policy would formalise the recycling of vehicles that have reached the end of their useful lives, turning…

Dec

2025

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‘Use Money For Rolls-Royce To Build Industries Instead’, Dangote Tells Luxury Car Users

Business, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Economy, FGN

‘Use Money For Rolls-Royce To Build Industries Instead’, Dangote Tells Luxury Car Users Chairman of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has urged wealthy Nigerians to divert funds spent on luxury items such as Rolls-Royce cars and private jets into building industries that can boost job creation and stimulate economic growth. In a recent interview clip shared online, Dangote lamented the growing culture of extravagant spending among the elite, saying the country’s development depends on local investors taking responsibility. “If you have money to buy Rolls-Royce, you should take that money and go put up an industry in your locality or…

Dec

2025

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Power Play: President Tinubu Replaces Obinna Oriaku With Victor Ikeji As Abia FCC Commissioner

Abuja, FGN, National Assembly

Power Play: President Tinubu Replaces Obinna Oriaku With Victor Ikeji As Abia FCC Commissioner President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has withdrawn the nomination of Obinna Oriaku and forwarded a fresh request to the Senate seeking confirmation of Victor Ikeji as the Federal Character Commission (FCC) Commissioner representing Abia State. The President’s letter was read on the floor of the Senate on Thursday by Senate President Godswill Akpabio during plenary. According to Tinubu, the new nomination is in accordance with Section 154 (1) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), which empowers the President to appoint members of the Commission subject to Senate…

Nov

2025

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Tinubu Appoints Non-Career Ambassadors For US, UK, France

FGN, Foreign Affairs, News Flash

Tinubu Appoints Non-Career Ambassadors For US, UK, France President Bola Tinubu has nominated non-career ambassadors for the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. The three nominees are Ayodele Oke, Colonel Lateef Are (retd.), and Amin Dalhatu. A post by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, on X revealed that the postings would be finalised following Senate screening. According to the statement, Dalhatu previously served as Nigeria’s ambassador to South Korea under the Late President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. Oke, an alumnus of Emory University in Atlanta, is a former Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA)…

Nov

2025

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US To Provide Intelligence Support, Defence, Equipment To Nigeria – FGN Reveals

FGN, Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Security

US To Provide Intelligence Support, Defence Equipment To Nigeria – FG Reveals The Federal Government says the United States has agreed to step up its security partnership with Nigeria. According to the Presidency, Washington has committed to providing intelligence support, defence equipment, and other strategic assistance to help Nigeria tackle terrorism and violent extremism more effectively. Officials described the development as a major outcome of last week’s engagements between a high-level Nigerian delegation and key US institutions. The delegation, led by National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu, held several meetings across Washington, including with senior officials from the US Congress, the…

Nov

2025

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US Ambassador Reports ‘Christian Genocide’ In Nigeria To UN Security Council

Crime, FGN, Foreign Affairs, News Flash

US Ambassador Reports ‘Christian Genocide’ In Nigeria To UN Security Council The United States ambassador to the United Nations, Michael Waltz, has reported what he described as the slaughter of thousands of Christians in Nigeria to the UN Security Council. In a video released on Thursday by the US Mission to the UN on X, the ambassador outlined rising concerns over killings, razed communities and the targeting of church leaders in areas affected by ethnic militias in the Middle Belt and terrorist groups in the North. The ambassador drew attention to continued assaults by Boko Haram and ISIS-West Africa, noting…

Nov

2025

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Christian Genocide: Back Nigeria CPC Redesignation With Concrete Action – Bishop Anagbe Begs Trump

FGN, Foreign Affairs, News Flash

Christian Genocide: Back Nigeria CPC Redesignation With Concrete Action – Bishop Anagbe Begs Trump The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Makurdi, in Benue State, Wilfred Anagbe, has appealed to President Donald Trump of the United States to match its renewed designation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern, CPC, with concrete action. Bishop Anagbe made this call on Thursday, while testifying before the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa, which is investigating Trump’s redesignation of Nigeria as a CPC He said, “On behalf of millions of Christians in Nigeria and in the diaspora, we want to thank…

Nov

2025

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US Lawmaker Urges FGN To Pardon Farmer Sentenced To Death For Killing Herdsman

FGN, Crime, Foreign Affairs, News Flash

US Lawmaker Urges FG To Pardon Farmer Sentenced To Death For Killing Herdsman A member of the United States House of Representatives, Riley Moore, has called on the Nigerian government to pardon a farmer, Sunday Jackson, who was sentenced to death for killing a herdsman during a 2015 confrontation in Adamawa State. Speaking on Thursday during a US House hearing on President Donald Trump’s redesignation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern, Moore said the conviction was unjust. “I would urge the Nigerian government to take a look at pardoning Sunday Jackson, who is an individual who was fighting…

Nov

2025

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Justice, Power, And The Moral Collapse Of Selective Leadership- By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Columns/Opinions/Letters, FGN, Human Rights, Judiciary

JUSTICE, POWER, AND THE MORAL COLLAPSE OF SELECTIVE LEADERSHIP The life sentence delivered against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu by Justice Omotoso stands today as one of the most contested judicial decisions in the history of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. Not merely for what was decided, but for what it exposes: the hypocrisy of power, the selective vibrations of political morality, and the collapse of leadership where it is most needed. Philosophers across centuries have warned that justice becomes tyranny the moment it begins to discriminate. Aristotle, in Nicomachean Ethics, defined injustice as “unequal treatment of equals or equal treatment of unequals.” This…

Nov

2025

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Muslims Must Stand With Tinubu In 2027; I Wil Deliver 2.5 Million Votes – Gov Okpebholo

Columns/Opinions/Letters, FGN, Politics, Religion

Muslims Must Stand With Tinubu In 2027; I Will Deliver 2.5 million Votes – Gov Okpebholo Governor Monday Okpebholo has called on the Muslim community in the state to sustain their prayers and support for the President Bola Tinubu administration. Mr Okpebholo also urged Muslims to “stand firmly behind the president’s reform-driven leadership, ahead of the 2027 general elections”. He spoke during a special Walimah, ‘365 Days in Office Celebration Walimah of His Excellency, Sen. Monday Okpebholo’ on Thursday in Benin. The celebration was part of the activities lined up to mark Mr Okpbeholo’s first anniversary in office. Addressing the…