Author: Vincent Osuwo

The National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, has rejected reports claiming that Nigeria’s National Identification Number, NIN, database was breached. The commission called the claims “false and unfounded,” stating that the National Identity Database, NIDB, had not been breached or compromised. A video making the rounds on social media had alleged that NIN and Bank Verification Number (BVN) details could be bought for as little as N100. The video further claimed that some NIMC officials in Lagos were selling individuals’ NIN information for N1,000 outside the commission’s office. In a statement shared via X on Thursday, NIMC said the claims were…

Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice President and the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has given N20 million to the families of the 37 artisanal miners who lost their lives while in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Minna, Niger State. Atiku made the donation public on Tuesday while visiting Minna, where he also offered his condolences to the Emir of Minna, Alhaji Umar Farouk Bahago, and held meetings with the families and survivors of the tragedy. The 37 detainees passed away on September 17, several days after being arrested during NSCDC…

Senator Ireti Kingibe, who represents the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has informed FCT Minister Nyesom Wike that insults, threats, or political pressure cannot intimidate her, maintaining that no minister stands above the law. Kingibe further asserted that Wike had no power to decide whether she would return to the Senate in 2027, stating that this choice rested with the people of the FCT. She made this known on Thursday through a post on her X platform, replying to the minister’s recent remarks about her criticism of the FCT Administration and her political future. “I have never been one to be…

Former governor of Kaduna State Nasir El-Rufai has spoken about the silence of certain friends, colleagues, and relatives whom he says he had backed in the past, stating that he holds no bitterness toward those who have decided not to support him. El-Rufai shared these comments in a statement called “My Relationships and the Aftermath,” posted on X on Wednesday. According to the former governor, some individuals had voiced worry over the noticeable silence of those he had been close to or had openly backed in earlier times. “Over the years, I have stood by people and for causes I…

US President Donald Trump will welcome Chinese leader Xi Jinping to the White House on Thursday for a day filled with ceremony, all aimed at one objective, preserving the fragile peace between the two rival superpowers. Trump greeted Xi in person on the tarmac when he arrived on Wednesday, marking the first occasion in over sixty years that a US president has welcomed a foreign political leader at Joint Base Andrews near Washington. On Thursday he will roll out even more pomp and ceremony for Xi, offering him a formal welcome on the White House South Lawn, a military flyover,…

A university undergraduate was carried away by a flood in Asaba, Delta State, while she was travelling with her father, and her body was found two days afterward. The incident took place on Monday at Okotimi Layout, behind the Asaba Specialist Hospital, after a heavy downpour. It was gathered that the girl was riding with her father in a Toyota Corolla when the flood forced the vehicle into a drainage channel. A source stated that the man was driving his daughter to the place where she was doing her industrial training when the incident happened. “He was driving to a…

The body of six-year-old Success Ezenwafor, a pupil of UNIZIK Primary School, who was carried away by flood in Anambra State on Tuesday, has been found. Success was swept away when a school bus carrying him and other occupants became trapped and overturned in floodwater along the Nibo–Isiagu Road in Awka South Local Government Area. Nine other occupants of the vehicle—seven schoolchildren and two adults—were rescued by operatives of the Anambra State Police Command, working together with residents, and taken to the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Amaku, Awka, for treatment. Success was still unaccounted for until his body…

Nigeria and the European Union have revived their push to deepen migration cooperation, including efforts to finalize the long-delayed EU-Nigeria Re-Admission Agreement. The agreement, which dates back to 2016, took center stage in Monday’s talks in New York between the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, and the EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration, Magnus Brunner. A statement released and signed on Wednesday in Abuja by Magnus Eze, the Special Assistant on Communication and New Media to the Foreign Affairs Minister, said the meeting took place on the margins of the 81st United Nations General Assembly at the…

The Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, Abdullahi Bello, disclosed that the bureau has investigated and verified the assets of more than 20 ministers and 30 permanent secretaries as part of efforts to strengthen accountability among public officers. Bello made this known in Abuja on Wednesday during a stakeholders’ workshop on anti-corruption and asset tracing, organized by the Human and Environmental Development Agenda alongside the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa. Bello stated that the CCB had gone from simply collecting asset declaration forms to now scrutinizing declarations, investigating suspected violations, and prosecuting those who break the law.…

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has rejected claims that he manipulated the 2023 presidential election in the South-South to favor President Bola Tinubu over the Labour Party candidate, Mr. Peter Obi. Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, Wike dismissed the allegation as a “baseless narrative propagated primarily on social media.” According to the News Agency of Nigeria, his comments during an interview on TVC’s Journalists’ Hangout, where he said his G5 group of governors deliberately let Obi win in parts of the South-South triggered widespread criticism across the political landscape. Critics, public commentators, and opposition…