With fewer than two years remaining until the 2027 presidential election, the Nigerian electorate has been jolted out of apparent complacency — and it appears that both the ruling All Progressives Congress and President Tinubu are equally startled by reports of a potential Goodluck Ebele Jonathan–Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso ticket.
About a week ago, controversial former aide to late President Muhammadu Buhari, Lauretta Onochie, caused a stir which went viral listed what she termed as reasons why President Bola Ahmed Tinubu denied Deputy Comptroller General B U Nwafor the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service. Onochie said what worked against Nwafor was her gender, her State of origin, Anambra, and that she has no husband or boyfriend in the Presidential Villa, and has no governor backing her.
In what has become like an order of the day in Nigeria, the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, FMCIDE, is in the news for allegations of corruption, DAUDA ISMAIL writes.
A group of cancers ranging from leukemia, brain and spinal cord tumors to lymphomas, solid tumors, among others, affects children from birth to 14 years and teenagers from 15 to 19 years.
About two million children are said to be suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Nigeria, with only 20 per cent receiving nutritional and other treatments they desperately need.