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Confirmed! Businessman and socialite, Otunba Adekunle Ojora is dead. Aged 93, the father of Toyin, wife of ex-Governor and ex-Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, died in Lagos on Tuesday, January 27, 2026.

Operatives of the Zamfara State Police Command’s Task Force on Illegal Mining have arrested a 38-year-old man for the unlawful possession of suspected explosive materials. The arrest was made on January 27, 2027, at about 4:15 p.m., following credible and actionable intelligence. The suspect, identified as Mustapha Mohammad, was apprehended while driving a Toyota Corolla. A thorough search of the vehicle led to the recovery of 954 pieces of suspected explosive materials concealed in polyethylene bags. Preliminary investigations suggest that the items were intended for use by bandits as Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). The suspect is currently in police custody,…

The Lagos State House of Assembly has dismissed claims that it made provisions in the 2026 Appropriation Law for the purchase of houses in Abuja for its members, describing the report as false, misleading and mischievous. In a joint statement issued on Tuesday, the Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Strategy and Security, Hon. Stephen Ogundipe, and the Chairman of the Committee on Economic Planning and Budget, Hon. Sa’ad Olumoh, clarified that no such item exists in the 2026 budget. The lawmakers stressed that the Lagos State House of Assembly does not operate in Abuja, noting that all its…

The Managing Director of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Barrister Oluwaseun Faleye, has called for a nationwide shift from mere compliance with safety regulations to the entrenchment of a sustainable workplace safety culture across Nigerian industries. Faleye made the call on Tuesday in Abuja at the NSITF–Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) Safe Workplace Intervention Project (SWIP) Abuja Mega Awards Ceremony, which marked the grand finale of the 2025 SWIP programme. He described the Abuja event as a “homecoming of safety” following a 12-day nationwide SWIP tour that began at the NSITF headquarters and covered major industrial hubs, including…

Chairman of Heirs Holdings and United Bank for Africa (UBA), Mr Tony Elumelu, has reaffirmed the commitment of African leaders to driving the continent’s development through homegrown solutions, stressing that Africa’s future lies firmly in the hands of Africans. Elumelu made the remarks during a strategy session of the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), where he joined former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, both founding members of the Corporation, to review AFC’s journey and growing impact on the continent.According to Elumelu, the session provided an opportunity to reflect on AFC’s evolution since its establishment, assess…

The Federal Government of Nigeria has successfully issued a ₦501 billion inaugural bond under the Presidential Power Sector Debt Reduction Programme (PPSDRP), recording 100% subscription from pension funds, banks, asset managers and other investors, and marking a significant step towards resolving legacy debts, restoring liquidity, and strengthening confidence in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI). The Programme, championed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, is designed to address long-standing payment arrears owed to power generation companies, which for over a decade constrained liquidity, weakened balance sheets and discouraged investment across the power sector value chain. Speaking at the bond issuance…

Sit-At-Home: Anambra traders appeal for adequate security measures Traders in Onitsha main Market, Anambra have called for adequate security measures in the state to enable them to adhere strictly to Gov. Charlse Soludo’s directive on the Monday Sit-At-Home. The traders were reacting to the order by the state government for the immediate shutdown of the Onitsha Main Market and other adjoining markets for one week, in the first instance, following the traders’ noncompliance to the government’s directive to open markets on Mondays. The sit-at-home order which has been in place for about four years, imposed by non-state actors in the…

An Upper Customary Court in Daura Road, Kaduna, on Tuesday, ordered a businessman, Abdulkarim Abubakar to pay rent arrears of N133,000 before February 28. The Judge, Patience Musa gave the order following Abukakar’s admittance that he was owing the complainant, Abubakar Jibril. The defendant had prayed the court to give him three months period to enable him to pay in installments. In his response, the complainant, said that he needed the money in full so that he could pay his children’s school fees. “I can only give him one month to pay up, my children have been at home because…

Angola plans to raise about 1.7 billion dollars on international capital markets in 2026, the government’s annual debt plan showed on Tuesday.The document also showed Angola aims to secure around 1.4 billion dollars in commercial financing, including debt-for-health swap operations, and 500 million dollars from World Bank Development Policy Operations. The Southern African oil-producing country is under pressure from high debt-service costs, which could consume more than 40 per cent of total expenditure this year. In December, the International Monetary Fund released a forecast that economic growth would remain subdued this year at around 2 per cent, with a gradual…

A national industrial court in Abuja has ordered workers on the payroll of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) to suspend their ongoing strike. Delivering a ruling on Tuesday, Emmanuel Subilim, presiding judge, held that although the matter before the court amounted to a trade dispute, the defendants’ right to embark on industrial action was not absolute. He held that once a dispute has been referred to the national industrial court, any ongoing strike must cease pending the determination of the case. credit: thecable