Author: Amina Mohammed

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, said President Bola Tinubu’s infrastructural development has killed coalition moves by the opposition. Wike disclosed this while speaking at the official commissioning of roads in the nation’s capital. Wike who vowed to continue to support Tinubu’s administration said “Some people, whatever you do, will not be happy; many of them were born not to be happy.” “Under Tinubu, contractors now have confidence in the government. Your good works have killed the coalition in Nigeria.”

An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Jesutega Onokpasa, is dead. The lawyer and prominent political commentator, who appeared frail during his last interview on national television died on Monday. Announcing his demise on his X account on Tuesday, a pro-APC crusader, Okezie Atani, said the prominent political commentator was survived by his wife and children. He wrote, “We lost Barr. Jesutega Onokpasa, may his soul rest in perfect peace.” A Facebook page named Renewed Hope United Kingdom also wrote a tribute entitled “A Farewell to a Passionate Advocate: Honouring Jesutega Onokpasa’s Legacy” to announce the late APC chieftain’s demise. It…

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has officially commenced the payment of arrears arising from the recently approved N77,000 monthly allowance to both current and recently discharged corps members. This confirmation came from the NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, who announced that the disbursements are being made in batches. The move fulfills the Federal Government’s pledge to align corps members’ stipends with the new national minimum wage—a promise first made by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in September 2024. The payment of arrears follows the initial implementation of the new allowance in March 2025. Before then, corps members had continued…

Segun Sowunmi, a former spokesman for the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is smarter than Peter Obi of the Labour Party and other opposition. Sowunmi stated this on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Monday. The PDP chieftain said his recent meeting with the president did not translate to a betrayal of his affiliation with Atiku and the PDP. “I am at liberty as an adult to take decisions. I am not tied to anybody. I am not anti-Tinubu. “I own my mouth,…

The Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Abuja said on Monday that it has commenced an investigation against eight of its staff for alleged professional misconduct. The staff were reported to have unprofessionally handled a case of health emergency involving some motor accident victims, as contained in a video that circulated on social media a few days ago. In the viral video shared on social media, the health workers were reluctant to attend to the accident victims brought to the Accident and Emergency Service Unit of the hospital by a passerby, because of some challenges they (health workers) highlighted, which included insufficient…

Maryam Abacha, the widow of the late military Head of State, General Sani Abacha, has denied long-standing allegations that her husband looted billions of dollars while in power. In an interview on TVC’s Politics on Sunday hosted by Femi Akande, Mrs. Abacha described the accusations against her late husband as unfair and rooted in misinformation. “The annulment was not done by my husband. And if it was him, then that means he was more powerful than the President at the time. That means Abacha was the greatest. But I’m not here to talk about Babangida or anybody. All I know…

The African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD) and Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA) have demanded a stop to the practice whereby an incumbent president appoints the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and its national commissioners. This was made known at the presentation of a policy brief and memoranda sent to the National Assembly in Abuja. Centre LSD and WRAPA suggested the composition of an independent panel membership of eight institutions to screen and nominate three persons for the selection and approval of one person by the president and National Assembly. They recommended that…

Akwa Ibom State governor, Pastor Umo Eno, on Friday, defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). However, three commissioners refused to follow their principal to the APC and subsequently resigned. They are Eno Ibanga (Works), Ini Ememobong, (Special Duties and Ibom Deep Sea) and Emem Almond Bob (Finance). Out of the 26 lawmakers in the state House Assembly, 15 declined to follow Eno to the APC, while 11 defected with him. Eno in his defection speech said he dumped PDP to connect the state to national politics. The governor, in the presence…

Nollywood actress Aisha Lawal has debunked an allegation making the rounds that she received a Toyota Venza as a birthday gift from socialite Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo. The rebuttal is contained in a video she posted on TikTok. Aisha Lawal has been in the eye of the storm after being dragged into a rift in the Lagos State branch of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW). In a viral clip, a chieftain of the union, Azeez Ajibola aka Istijabah accused MC Oluomo, a former chairman of Lagos NURTW, of lavishing the union’s funds on Nollywood…

A former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Mohammed Uwais, has died at the age of 89. The former CJN who died in the early hours of Friday served as Chief Justice of Nigeria from 1995 until his retirement in 2006. Following his retirement, he chaired the Presidential Electoral Reform Committee inaugurated by late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. The committee included prominent figures such as Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah and human rights lawyer, Dr Olisa Agbakoba, SAN. Funeral arrangements are yet to be announced.