Nigeria has been ranked 142nd out of 182 countries in the 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index, CPI, Transparency International reported on Tuesday. The CPI, which measures perceived public sector corruption on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean), gave Nigeria a score of 26—unchanged from 2024. However, the country fell two places from…
The US has listed 18 Nigerians for deportation from the country, in addition to 79 others earlier earmarked, bringing the total number of those to be deported to 97. This is contained in a statement published on the website of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seen on Tuesday. It explained that the arrests…
Nigeria has slipped two places to 142nd position out of 182 countries and territories in the 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index released by Transparency International (TI) on Tuesday, extending the country’s long-standing poor showing on the global anti-corruption ranking. The country retained a score of 26 out of 100 in the latest index but fell from…
More trouble appears to be coming the way of ex-Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Abubakar Malami, SAN, as a group of Nigerian legislative lawyers, Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, ALDRAP, has asked the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, to investigate and prosecute him over the controversial removal of former Chief Justice of…
The Federal Government has approved the resumption of three long-abandoned road projects in Jigawa State, which had been neglected for years and had led to the loss of lives and destruction of property due to frequent road accidents. DAILY POST reported that state residents have raised concerns over how abandoned Federal Government road projects are…
Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra State and presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, on Monday led protesters to the National Assembly in Abuja to oppose the Senate’s decision on the electronic transmission of election results. The protest, tagged ‘Occupy National Assembly’, was organised by Nigerian youths, pro-democracy activists and civil…
Renowned writer and historian, Majemite Jaboro, has released “The Ikoyi Prison Narratives”, a book offering rare insight into the life, spirituality and political philosophy of Afrobeats legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. The book documents conversations between Jaboro and Fela during their confinement at Ikoyi Prison, Lagos, between January and April 1993, while they awaited trial over a…
By Jeff Agbodo, Abakaliki The combined team of security operatives has discovered multiple graves of mutilated bodies of those allegedly killed during the boundary war between the Amasiri community and the Okporojọ Oso Edda community in Ebonyi State. The Acting Deputy Director of Army Public Relations of the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Lt…
There is heavy security presence at the National Assembly in Abuja as protesters gather at the entrance of the complex, insisting on the inclusion of “real-time electronic transmission” in the electoral amendment bill. The demonstrators, under the banner of “Occupy National Assembly”, said the Senate must be explicit in its provision for electronic transmission of…
Japan switched on the world’s biggest nuclear power plant again on Monday, its operator said, after an earlier attempt was quickly suspended due to a minor glitch. A problem with a monitoring alarm in January forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in the Niigata region restarted…
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