The people of the Kula community in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State have seized an oil vessel and two tugboats linked to a boat disaster that claimed 10 lives at the Robertkiri axis of the coastal community. The tugboats, identified as Delta Runner and Lorra Five, were reportedly seized as investigations into the incident continued, amid growing demands…
There is something fundamentally wrong when a country can extract wealth from a community for decades and depend on that wealth to finance national development, yet struggle to provide the community with basic infrastructure. It becomes even more troubling when…
The Federal Government has confirmed an Ebola virus disease case in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), involving a woman who recently arrived in Nigeria from Uganda. The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, disclosed this…
Nigerian politics has a long history of unlikely alliances, political realignments and dramatic changes in allegiance. There is a long list of Tinubu’s former critics, including the number of politicians who once strongly attacked him and his All Progressives Congress (APC), before becoming more accommodating, or openly supportive, of his administration. This raises an important question: what changed? For some, the answer…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has declared that Nigeria has moved beyond the most difficult phase of his administration’s economic reforms and is now entering what he described as an “age of prosperity”. Tinubu made the declaration in his Independence Day…
Thousands of families have been displaced, multibillion naira investments ruined as severe flooding wreak havoc across Edo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and other states in the southern parts of Nigeria. The flooding was triggered by several hours of severe rainfall across…
The Men Who Saw Tomorrow: Another Part of the Aoiri Obaigbo Series Professor Eyo Ita occupies an important but often overlooked place in the history of Nigerian nationalism, education and political development. His work in practical education, vocational training and…
PART I: The Colonial Trap Decades after gaining nominal independence in 1960, Nigeria remains ensnared in a structural and developmental bottleneck. The contemporary Nigerian state exhibits all the symptoms of an arrested developmental trajectory: a chronic deficit in technological innovation,…
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Politics
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has criticised President Bola Tinubu over his claim that the opposition created hunger and poverty in Nigeria, insisting that the administration must take responsibility for the country’s economic challenges. Atiku, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), said Nigerians deserved answers about the rising cost of living and other economic difficulties as political parties prepare for the 2027 general elections. Tinubu had made…
Education
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has restored its Central Admissions Processing System, CAPS, after a temporary disruption. In a statement on its X platform, the Board urged tertiary institutions to speed up their admission processes and recover lost time ahead of the 2026/2027 admission deadlines. JAMB also advised candidates to promptly accept admission offers made through the platform. Public universities are expected to conclude admissions by October 31, 2026, private universities by November 30, while other tertiary institutions…
