The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has dismissed claims that there is a plot to assassinate or intimidate African Democratic Congress presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar. The allegations were made by Timi Frank, a...
On Tuesday, armed police fired tear gas at people gathered at Lagos’s Lekki Toll Gate to mark the sixth anniversary of the #EndSARS protests against police brutality. Among those present were the ADC and...
The Department of State Services on Tuesday brought five suspected members of a kidnapping gang before the Justice Oputa State High Court in Owerri, Imo State, over the abduction of 20 prospective National Youth...
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), has denied asking Nigerians living in the United Kingdom to cut off relatives who depend on them for financial support. He says political...
Former Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, is dead. He died on the morning of Monday, October 19, 2026, after a brief illness. He was 71 years old. His death was announced by...
The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has dismissed claims that there is a plot to assassinate or intimidate African Democratic Congress presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar. The allegations were made by Timi Frank, a...
On Tuesday, armed police fired tear gas at people gathered at Lagos’s Lekki Toll Gate to mark the sixth anniversary of the #EndSARS protests against police brutality. Among those present were the ADC and...
The Department of State Services on Tuesday brought five suspected members of a kidnapping gang before the Justice Oputa State High Court in Owerri, Imo State, over the abduction of 20 prospective National Youth...
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), has denied asking Nigerians living in the United Kingdom to cut off relatives who depend on them for financial support. He says political...
At the 2026 World Maritime Day celebration in Lagos, Minister of Marine and Blue Economy Adegboyega Oyetola set out plans to strengthen Nigeria’s maritime sector under the theme “From Policy to Practice: Powering Maritime...
When the British government puts £746 million into rehabilitating Apapa and Tin Can Island ports, someone has to ship the materials. Nigerian shipowners are asking why that someone shouldn’t be them. That was the...
The PTML Customs Command has banned the alteration of chassis numbers on imported vehicles and the cross-releasing of cargo at the port. The command warned customs agents and other port users that anyone who...
Former Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, is dead. He died on the morning of Monday, October 19, 2026, after a brief illness. He was 71 years old. His death was announced by...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has taken INEC to court over more than N126.46 billion meant for electoral operations that is allegedly missing. SERAP says INEC has failed to account for the...
A container ship carrying over 2,500 containers has sunk in the southern part of the Strait of Hormuz. According to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy, the vessel hit a naval mine while...
The Acting Comptroller of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone ‘A’, Deputy Comptroller Oladapo Olukayode Afeni, has visited other security and law enforcement agencies in Lagos as part of efforts...
NDIGBOAMAKA FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT ENTERS EXCITING STAGE – GRAND FINALE SLATED FOR NOVEMBER 14TH AT NATIONAL STADIUM, SURULERE *FEATURING NOVELTY MATCH: NIGERIA CUSTOMS SERVICE TEAM VS NDIGBOAMAKA TRADERS ALL-STARS* The Ndigboamaka Progressive Markets Association (NPMA),...
The Nigeria Customs Service has auctioned 22,175 litres of Premium Motor Spirit seized by its anti-smuggling team, Operation Whirlwind, along the Lagos–Ogun axis. The petrol and the vehicles used to move it have a...
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) says it is working to remove the bottlenecks holding back Nigeria’s non-oil exports, with a push to widen export channels, speed up cargo processing, and bring more foreign exchange...
New nomenclature seeks to end years of controversy over Igbo leadership titles in the Diaspora A new chapter may have opened in the organisation of Igbo communities outside the South East as the South...
Emirion Real Estate LLC brings Dubai property experts to Eko Hotel on 3-4 October LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigerians weighing property abroad can meet Dubai real estate professionals in Lagos this weekend. Emirion Real Estate...
Suspected bandits attacked a community in Kaduna State in the early hours of Thursday, killing one resident and abducting nine others, including a man’s wife and two children. The attack took place in Babban...
The presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has slammed President Bola Tinubu for describing Nigeria as a cancer patient. Speaking during a world press conference on Thursday in Abuja, Atiku...
Deputy Comptroller Oladapo Olukayode Afeni has taken over as Acting Comptroller of the Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘A’, Ikeja, following the retirement of Comptroller Gambo Aliyu. He is the unit’s 30th head. The...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has started preparing for its 2026 basic training programme with a retreat for trainers in Lagos. The retreat held on Wednesday at the Customs Training College brought together trainers...
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu says the reforms going on in Nigeria have touched every home in the country. He said this on Thursday at the 66th National Independence Day parade, held at the...
As NINAuth handles about 1.3 million identity verifications daily, Switch Solutions MD Abdulaziz Aliyu Ari projects that public trust, data protection and responsible technology governance will determine the long-term success of Nigeria’s digital identity...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu marked Nigeria’s 66th Independence Day with a speech that was, at its core, an argument about time — that the hard part is over and the point of it all...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Seme Area Command, has begun full operation of its Simplified Declaration for Passenger Baggage Import — a digital system meant to speed up baggage clearance at Nigeria’s busiest land...
Nigeria’s maritime economy may be developing—but the bigger question is where, how fast, and for whose benefit? Across the country’s southern coastline, a striking pattern is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. In Lagos, port...
A fire outbreak at the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Western Marine Command office in Ibafon, Apapa, Lagos, has destroyed property worth millions of naira. The fire started at about 10:20 a.m. in the command’s...
Comptroller Murtala Mu’azu has formally resumed duty as the 33rd Customs Area Controller of the Apapa Area Command. He took over on Tuesday, 29 September 2026, at a ceremony held in the Command’s auditorium...
Flutterwave founder and CEO Olugbenga “GB” Agboola has been named to Fintech Magazine’s Top 100 Fintech Leaders list for 2026. He is the only Nigerian on the list. The annual list, published by the...
Several state chapters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have rejected the Rainbow Coalition being promoted by Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, and are calling on him to formally...
The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested a woman in connection with the death of a man whose body was later found dumped along the Kubwa Expressway in Abuja. Mrs Rukayat Muhammed was...
Anambra’s information commissioner says the state’s scrutiny of Peter Obi’s finances was never meant to damage him — only to test one specific claim. The Anambra State Government has moved to cool a dispute...
New questions are being raised about who actually ran the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) operation in Niger State that ended with 37 detainees dead. Sources say the Corps’ specialised Mining Marshals...
Abia State Governor Alex Otti has said he will not run for president or any other elective office after his time as governor ends. Otti made the statement on Friday during an interview on...