Lagos State and the drama of its embattled lawmaker and ex-Speaker of its parliament, Mudashiru Obasa appropriately answer to an idiom in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Insatiably curious about the mysteries of Wonderland, Alice had used the word, “Curiouser and curiouser” to express the mysteries of how she shrinks after drinking a potion. When Obasa emerged on Saturday to …

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday met with a delegation of Ogoni leadership at the State House, Abuja. The meeting, which commenced at about 2:37 pm with the arrival of President Tinubu, had in attendance Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, traditional rulers, clergy and political leaders. The meeting discussed issues around possible resumption of oil exploration activities in the Ogoni …

Angered by the appalling situation of Nigeria’s electricity supply sector over several decades of doing the wrong things by successive governments with no remedy in sight, even after hundreds of billions of public funds had been expended, President Muhammadu Buhari in 2018 chose a different path that had worked in other jurisdictions. He reached out to the then German Chancellor …

President Bola Tinubu has directed the provision of comprehensive medical care to the injured in Saturday’s fuel tanker explosion at Dikko Junction, Gurara Local Government Area of Niger State. He also instructed security and road safety authorities to implement measures to avert similar incidents. In a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Bayo Onanuga on Sunday, the President expressed deep sorrow …

Ghana’s President John Mahama’s choice of Nigerian President Bola Tinubu as the special guest of honour at his presidential inauguration ceremony in Accra on 7 January should be leveraged as a strategic opportunity by both leaders to turn a new positive page in Nigeria-Ghana relations. This should foreshadow the deliberate downplay of historic mutual prejudice and parochial negative rivalries. In …

United Arab Emirates President, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has accepted President Bola Tinubu’s invitation to visit Nigeria this year. The Nigerian leader invited his UAE counterpart on Wednesday night during their bilateral talks on the sidelines of the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2025 President Tinubu arrived in Abu Dhabi on Sunday as a guest of the UAE President …

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Wednesday, assured a global audience in the United Arab Emirates that Nigeria is ready to work with other nations to build a resilient, equitable, and sustainable world for all. President Tinubu spoke on the second day of the 2025 Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week on ‘From Climate Imperatives into Economic Prosperity: Bridging Africa with the Global …

President Bola Tinubu has congratulated the Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPC Limited (NNPCL), Mallam Mele Kolo Kyari, on his 60th birthday, which comes up on Wednesday. The President commended Kyari’s diligence in transforming NNPCL into a profitable organisation. He recalled that, despite cynicism in some quarters, the NNPCL, under Kyari’s leadership, has recorded notable achievements, including the resuscitation of …

President Bola Tinubu has expressed confident that Ghana’s new President, John Mahama would work with Nigeria to strengthen the powerful bond between both West African states, which, he believed, would lead “to greater shared prosperity for our people. I have no doubt that your administration will bring about positive change and progress”. President Tinubu, who was the Special Guest at …

President Bola Tinubu will be among world leaders who will grace the inauguration of John Dramani Mahama as the sixth President in Ghana’s Fourth Republic. In a statement in Abuja on Sunday, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga said the President Tinubu will depart Abuja on Monday for Accra, the Ghanaian capital. Serving as …