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Nigeria: Leadership As Red-Carpet Exchange Programme

Accurate ReportersDecember 8, 2025

By Ebuka Ukoh Nigeria surprises people who believe leadership involves duty. You watch a government hold an economic summit in a state that struggles with security. Then, you see who gets invited to headline it: The UK’s ex-Prime Minister arrives to applause, photo ops, and VIP escorts. That spectacle passes for strategic governance. The actual...

Way The Ban On Ekpo Masquerade Is Misguided And Culturally Harmful

Accurate ReportersDecember 2, 2025

By Okon Offiong The recent directive by Governor Umo Eno, prohibiting Ekpo masquerade activities across Akwa Ibom State, has generated widespread concern among cultural custodians, traditionalists, and lovers of heritage at home and in the diaspora. More than a mere administrative decision, the ban strikes at the heart of a tradition that predates colonial history...

Economic effects of insurgency in Nigeria

Accurate ReportersNovember 22, 2025

Benjamin Umoru The Nigerian insurgency became active in 2009 and has become one of the most economically damaging conflicts in Nigeria’s modern history. While its human toll is severe, the economic consequences, both immediate and long-term, are equally profound. The violence has disrupted local production, weakened national revenue streams, discouraged foreign investment, increased the cost...

Tinubu’s 15% Import Duty On Petrol And Diesel: A Strategic Step Toward Nigeria’s Energy Independence

Accurate ReportersNovember 13, 2025

By Benjamin Umoru For decades, Nigeria, Africa’s largest crude oil producer has faced the paradox of exporting crude oil while importing refined products at great cost. This dependence on importation has heavily drained the nation’s foreign reserves, distorted fuel pricing, and made the economy vulnerable to global oil market fluctuations. However there appears to be...

Soludo’s Pro-people Politics Turns Devt Into Campaign Strategy

Accurate ReportersNovember 5, 2025

By Chuka Nnabuife Walking into Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo’s waiting room at the new Governor’s Lodge, Light House, Awka, feels less like entering an office and more like stepping into a living museum. White walls lined with enlarged dummy cheques and crafted souvenirs tell stories of affection and belief. Each cheque represents money freely donated...

Akpabio’s Drive Towards Sustainable Peace in Akwa Ibom and the Nation

Accurate ReportersNovember 1, 2025

By Ken Harries, Esq Peace is the foundation of every prosperous society and few Nigerian leaders have pursued it with the consistency and conviction of Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, President of the Tenth Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. From his earliest days in public service to his current national role, Akpabio has remained...

Why Nigeria should not be designated country of concern –Kukah

Accurate ReportersOctober 21, 2025

Comments at the Launch of the ACIN 2025 World Report on Religious Freedom in the World.A Plea & Testimony from Nigeria By Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop, Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Nigeria, Delivered at the Augustinianum Hall, on October 21st, 2021, Vatican City. The report itself is a huge document of 1248 pages. It covers the...

How Governor Okpebholo Reclaimed A State Once Held Hostage By Fear

Accurate ReportersOctober 21, 2025

By Fred Itua There was a time, not too long ago, when the mention of Benin City stirred unease.Streets once alive with commerce and culture had become theatres of fear, haunted by the menace of cult clashes, street assassinations, and senseless violence. The air was heavy with tension; lives were being wasted, families shattered, and...

Gov Mbah, Enugu APC, And The Morning After

Accurate ReportersOctober 20, 2025

By Samson Ezea After months of political meetings, alignments, rumours, permutations, realignments, speculations, tension, uncertainty, expectations, and anxiety over what would become of the APC in Enugu ahead of the 2027 elections, the much-anticipated day finally arrived — and passed — on Tuesday, October 12, 2025. It was an epoch-making day. The long-awaited and much-sought-after...

October 20: Throwback To When Nigeria Lost Children And Conscience At Lekki Tollgate

Accurate ReportersOctober 19, 2025

By Ebuka Ukoh October 20, 2020, was an unforgettable Tuesday night. Then, I sat at home, watching DJ Switch’s Instagram livestream, my phone trembling in my hands as her voice broke through the darkness. The sound of gunfire echoed over the national anthem. Flags fluttered in blood and fear. Protesters—unarmed, singing, kneeling—were sprayed with bullets....

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Troops Neutralise 18 Terrorists, Rescue 14 Victims, Apprehend 47 Suspects Nationwide – Army

Accurate ReportersDecember 10, 2025

The Nigerian Army troops deployed across various Theatres of operation have in the last 48 hours, neutralised about 18 terrorists, rescued 14 kidnapped victims and apprehended 47 suspects in intensified offensives. A credible source at the Army Headquarters told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday that the operations also led to the recovery...

Gov Fubara Dumps PDP, Defects to APC

Accurate ReportersDecember 10, 2025

Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara has announced his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). He made the announcement on Tuesday during a stakeholders’ meeting at the Government House, Port Harcourt. At the meeting, Fubara confirmed to political leaders and selected groups that he had joined the...

NUPRC Denies Withholding Exploration Fund, Says $185m, N14.9bn Released To NNPCL

Accurate ReportersDecember 10, 2025

The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has dismissed reports that it is withholding the Frontier Exploration Fund (FEF) from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC Ltd.). The commission’s Head of Media and Strategic Communication, Eniola Akinkuotu, who dismissed the reports in a statement on Monday said that 185.123 million dollars had been approved along...

Failed Coup: ECOWAS May Deploy Standby Force To Benin

Accurate ReportersDecember 10, 2025

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says it will deploy its regional standby force to defend Benin Republic, if necessary, following a failed military coup in the country. A statement issued by the commission on Sunday in Abuja said ECOWAS condemned the failed coup, describing it as a subversion of the will of...

Ladoja Urges FG To Reopen All Land Borders

Accurate ReportersDecember 9, 2025

The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Rashidi Ladoja, has appealed to the Federal Government to open all land borders in Nigeria to ease the movement of persons and goods across the sub-region as provided under the ECOWAS trade liberation scheme. Ladoja made the appeal when the outgoing Controller of Customs, Oyo/Osun Area Command, Compt. Gambo Aliyu,...

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