President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of a national forest guard system and directed the recruitment of more than 130,000 armed operatives to secure Nigeria’s 1,129 forest reserves. The initiative is aimed at strengthening internal security and protecting forested areas from criminal elements, Each state will recruit between 2,000 and 5,000 heavily armed and professionally trained forest guards, depending on available financial resources. The recruitment and training processes will…

US President Donald Trump announced that Qatar will invest $10 billion in the Al Udeid Air Base, the largest U.S. air base in the Middle East, over the coming years. Trump made this announcement during a speech to US troops at the base in Doha, Qatar’s capital. The investment is part of a broader deal that includes $42 billion in Qatari defence purchases signed on Wednesday. The deal is significant…

The inflation rate of Nigeria eased to 23.71% in April 2025 against 24.23% recorded in March, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Thursday. The new figure indicated a slight decline of 0.52 percentage points, showing a touch of hope amid continued economic and rising cost-of-living challenges in the country. New Daily Prime reported earlier that Nigeria’s headline inflation rate edged up to 24.23 per cent in March…

The Lagos State Government has reiterated its commitment to enforcing the 10% cap on tenancy agreement fees, cautioning landlords and agents against imposing illegal charges on tenants. The Special Adviser to the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Housing, Barakat Odunuga-Bakare disclosed this during the 2025 Ministerial Press Briefing held at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre in Alausa, Ikeja. She emphasised that the Lagos State Tenancy Law clearly stipulates that legal or…

The Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Chief Uche Nnaji, on Wednesday said the Federal Executive Council has approved the launch of four satellites to aid Earth observation and the fight against insecurity in the country.

The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, on Wednesday, said budgeting under President Bola Tinubu’s administration is not for survival but for economic transformation and reality. Shettima guarantees that the current administration is building systems that speak to productivity, sustainable growth and progress. He stated this at the 15th Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Lecture organised by the Nigerian Institution of Mechanical Engineers in Abuja. The Vice President, who noted that there was a nexus between engineering…

The Lagos State Police Command has announced the arrest of a 28-year-old male ex-convict, Olayinka Oluwaseyi, for an alleged attempted robbery in the state. Oluwaseyi had been released from prison just three months ago for a similar offence. According to a statement shared on X on Wednesday by the state police spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, the suspect, armed with a knife, was apprehended by patrol officers from the Ketu Division on…

The Lagos State Government is set to roll out monthly and quarterly rent payment plans to ease the strain of annual rent obligations, particularly for low-income earners. This was disclosed by the Commissioner for Housing, Moruf Akinderu-Fatai, during the 2025 Ministerial Press Briefing held to mark the second anniversary of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s second term. Akinderu-Fatai explained that the initiative aligns with the state’s broader strategy to make housing more…

Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has said the country must invest at least $10 billion annually over the next 20 years to achieve a dependable electricity supply. He made this known yesterday during the commissioning of a 2.5MW solar hybrid power plant at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna State.  READ ALSO: Presidency denies ministers’ dismissal, orders crackdown on fake news platform Adelabu attributed Nigeria’s longstanding electricity crisis to…

In addition to the rotational presidency proposal, six other constitution alteration bills listed on the Order Paper were also rejected.

Inter-university centres that have been battling to be included in the series of intervention programmes of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, may soon smile, as the House of Representatives is considering a bill to make the centres beneficiaries of the Fund’s activities too. A bill in that regard passed second reading in the House on Tuesday. It was titled, “”Bill for an Act to Amend the Tertiary Education Trust…

Constitutional steps to change Yaba College of Technology, YABATECH, to a university of technology and vocational studies are now on before the Senate, where the bill to effect that has scaled through the second reading. The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau Jibrin, APC, Kano North, who presided at Tuesday’s plenary session, subsequently referred the bill to the Committee on Tertiary Education and TETFUND for further legislative action and…