All eight Enugu State lawmakers in the House of Representatives have defected from PDP and Labour Party to the ruling APC, citing internal crises and alignment with Governor Peter Mbah’s administration.
A multi-vehicle crash involving five articulated trucks on the Kara Bridge section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway left at least four persons, including a police inspector, dead and several injured on Thursday.
President Bola Tinubu has approved a new 15 per cent ad valorem import duty on petrol and diesel, a move set to significantly increase pump prices and push petrol to over N1,000 per litre across many filling stations.
At least 16 Nigerian military officers, including a brigadier general, have been detained over an alleged coup plot, with most of them drawn from the Army’s Infantry Corps.
Military investigators have traced N45bn in suspicious NDDC transactions allegedly linked to detained soldiers and politically exposed persons amid ongoing coup plot investigations.
US President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he has directed the Pentagon to immediately restart nuclear weapons testing, citing the need to match the capabilities of Russia and China as he prepared to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea.
President Bola Tinubu has removed Maryam Sanda, convicted of killing her husband, from the revised presidential pardon list after consultations with the Council of State.
President Bola Tinubu has reviewed the recent presidential pardon list after public backlash, removing convicts of serious crimes such as kidnapping and drug offences.
President Bola Tinubu has signed instruments of clemency granting pardons to selected convicts while excluding those guilty of serious crimes, relocating the Prerogative of Mercy Secretariat to the Justice Ministry, and directing stricter guidelines to reform the pardon process.
Lawmakers have raised alarm over threats by terrorists to bomb the National Assembly, prompting urgent calls for enhanced security and the creation of a Legislative Security Directorate.
