Author: Alade Adisa

Boko Haram terrorists have killed over 20 Nigerian Army personnel, with many still missing following an attack on a military base in Borno State. It was learnt that for several hours on Friday, January 24, 2025, the terrorists attacked the 149 Battalion in Malam-Fatori, the headquarters of Abadam Local Government Area of Borno State. Malam-Fatori is a border town between Nigeria and Niger Republic, and thousands of people displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency are currently taking refuge in the town. Sources confirmed to SaharaReporters that the insurgents attacked the base with multiple gun trucks. The sources added that the…

The Conservative Party is calling for new rights to allow parents full access to the materials being taught to their children in schools. This move comes after revelations that some 13-year-olds have been taught that there are 100 genders, and some primary school students have been exposed to inappropriate content, including lessons on masturbation. As part of this campaign, the Tories, led by Kemi Badenoch, are planning to introduce an amendment to Labour’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. This amendment aims to enhance transparency by granting parents and carers the right to view all teaching materials, including those provided by…

Brazilian officials demanded that U.S. agents remove handcuffs from a group of deportees flown to Brazil on Friday. A prominent minister in President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s administration condemned the practice as a “blatant disrespect” for the rights of Brazilian citizens, Reuters reports. Acting on orders from Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski, federal police met the flight, which had made an unscheduled landing in Manaus, an Amazonian city due to technical issues, according to a government statement released on Saturday. The plane, carrying 88 Brazilian passengers, 16 U.S. security agents, and eight crew members, was initially scheduled to land in…

In one of its clear-out operations, troops of the 6 Division of the Nigerian Army have dismantled 13 illegal refining sites and recovered 300,000 litres of stolen crude oil. The troops also arrested 15 suspected oil thieves. Confirming the development, the Acting Deputy Director, 6 Division Army Public Relations, Jonah Danjuma, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Sunday, said this was achieved in a major operation targeting oil theft in the Niger Delta in one week. He said the operations, conducted from January 20 to 26, 2025, spanned Rivers, Delta, Edo, and Akwa Ibom states. The statement read,…

US diplomats have requested an urgent exemption for Ukraine-related programmes from a 90-day freeze on foreign aid and “stop work” orders issued by secretary of state Marco Rubio, according to documents seen by the Financial Times and people familiar with the matter. Citing national security concerns, senior diplomats in the state department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs have asked Rubio to grant a full waiver to exclude the work of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in Ukraine from the sweeping directive that came into effect immediately after being issued on Friday. “We do not know at this…

While Donald Trump has yet to act on his multiple tariff threats, it’s likely he will. So the fear lingers that the US president’s aggressive trade posture will sow global disorder, depressing growth and roiling markets, particularly if targeted nations retaliate. But retaliation is not the only or even the most likely response to Trump, no matter how broadly he finally delivers on his threats. The US has wielded tariffs as a weapon for eight years now. Those imposed by Trump in his first term were mostly continued or — in the case of China — expanded by Joe Biden.…

The Lagos State House of Assembly has reiterated its unwavering support for the new Speaker, Mojisola Meranda, reaffirming the impeachment of the former Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa. Obasa, who was recently impeached by his colleagues over allegations of misconduct, during a welcome event organised in his honour by supporters at Ikeja GRA on Saturday, claimed that the process of his impeachment did not comply with constitutional procedures. But in a statement signed Saturday by Ogundipe Olukayode, the Assembly dismissed Obasa’s attempts to challenge the decision as “uncalled for and unparliamentary.” The Assembly stated, “It is imperative to clarify that over 2/3…

The World Bank Group has advised the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to sustain efforts to tackle inflation, as Nigeria’s inflation rose to 34.8 percent in December — up from 33.6 percent in November. Senior economist for Nigeria at World Bank Group, Sameer Matta, said this at the launch of the 2025 macroeconomic outlook of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) weekend. Matta said during a panel sessions at the event that the CBN must focus on taming inflation. The economist said, “I think what is critical in terms of inflation is to stay the course. I think that the…

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi has said he is not desperate to become president of Nigeria. Speaking at the fourth convocation ceremony of Nexford University, a US-based online school on Saturday, Obi decried the state of leadership in the country, describing it as “an imposition on the people.” A former governor of Anambra State, Obi urged the graduating students to embrace the spirit of servitude to lead effectively and “ignite the needed change.” Maintaining that he is “desperate to see the country work,” the former governor said, “All of these…

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Government over the recent 50 per cent hike in the telecom tariff by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Joining the NCC as a defendant in the suit, SERAP regards the tariff increase as “arbitrary, unconstitutional, unlawful, unfair, and unreasonable.” With the increase, the average price of calls will rise to N16.5 per minute from N11; the cost of 1GB of data will rise to N431.25 from N287.5/GB; and SMS prices to N6 from N4. In the suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/111/2025 filed on Friday at the Federal High…