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Reps pass ₦68.30tn 2026 budget after upward review

Nigeria, March 31 -- The House of Representatives has passed the 2026 budget totalling ₦68.30 trillion, significantly increasing the proposed budget by about ₦9 trillion from the ₦58... Read More


Nigerian lawmakers extend implementation of 2025 federal budget after Tinubu's failed promises

Nigeria, March 31 -- The Senate on Tuesday extended the implementation timeline of the capital component of the 2025 budget to 30 June 2026. The upper chamber approved the extension during plenary fo... Read More


Nigeria apologises to South Africa over 'coronation' of traditional ruler

Nigeria, March 31 -- The Nigerian High Commission in South Africa has apologised for the crisis and confusion caused by the coronation of an Igbo king in the Cape Province. The Deputy High Commission... Read More


Jibrin Ndace's reign of renewal at VON, By Awaal Gata

Nigeria, March 31 -- There are institutions that merely endure, surviving the erosion of time through habit and bureaucratic inertia; and there are those that are reborn, reimagined by the grind and g... Read More


For Africa, industrialisation 2.0 beckons? Or is it a mirage?, By 'Tope Fasua

Nigeria, March 31 -- Fortuitously, the very day I was contacted to write a second foreword for Professor Edward O. Ogunleye's book, on the 17th of March, I received a report from the Wall Street Journ... Read More


'Redemption is here': Dino Melaye explains how ADC will defeat Tinubu in 2027

Nigeria, March 31 -- A former Kogi West senator, Dino Melaye, has argued that the opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC) will defeat President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election in Ni... Read More


2027: Kano APC 2023 governorship candidate joins ADC

Nigeria, March 31 -- The All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate for Kano in 2023, Nasiru Gawuna, defected to the opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC) on Tuesday, following his... Read More


Court reverses CAC's alteration to United Methodist Church's name

Nigeria, March 31 -- The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday affirmed the United Methodist Church in Nigeria (UMCN) as validly registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), describing an alt... Read More


Who writes the algorithm?: AI, Africa, and the politics of repair, By Akintunde Babatunde

Nigeria, March 31 -- I joined a panel last weekend at the London School of Economics and Political Science for the 12th LSE Africa Summit. The session was titled "Who Writes the Algorithm: AI, Africa ... Read More


BREAKING: Senate passes 2026 budget without scrutinising Tinubu's request for upward review

Nigeria, March 31 -- The Senate on Tuesday passed the 2026 budget after adding the N9.3 trillion latest request by President Bola Tinubu, bringing the total figure to N68.323 trillion. Apart from app... Read More