Author: Citynews

The self-styled Director-General of the controversial Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC), Adeniyi Adeyemi, has rejected allegations that he single-handedly established the disputed agency. CityNews reports that Adeyemi, who is currently in police custody, claimed that several ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal Government processed documents, assigned personnel or officially interacted with the council over an extended period. He made the claims in a statement issued on Sunday by his legal defence team and signed by Festus Akhigbe. The lawyers also requested that Adeyemi be allowed to appear before the House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the establishment and activities…

KEY TAKEAWAYS Investigation records alleged ex-Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, helped raise billions, including authorising ₦785m, to fund a failed 2025 coup plot. Prosecutors relied on over 7,400 pages of documents alleging Purple Waves Limited received ₦5.816bn from NDDC and about ₦2.9bn SunTrust loans in September 2025. Col. Mohammed Ma’aji’s arrest on September 29, 2025 reportedly collapsed the plot, as SunTrust Bank placed Post-No-Debit on a ₦4.3bn account while Sylva denied involvement. Fresh investigation records have alleged that a former Bayelsa State governor and ex-Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, helped raise billions of naira…

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory has ordered Stanbic IBTC Bank to pay N15 million in damages for unlawfully retaining and processing the personal data of two former customers after they terminated their banking relationship. The judgment, delivered on July 29, 2026, by Justice Kayode Agunloye, also directed the bank to erase all personal data relating to the claimants that it is not legally required to retain and restrained it from further processing or using their information for marketing purposes. The suit, marked CV/2190/25, was instituted on June 10, 2025, by David Ogundipe and Salami Tolulope Ibrahim, who…

KEY TAKEAWAYS Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, former Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, and ex-Osun governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta on Sunday. Makinde said on Facebook that the Abeokuta meeting discussed important national issues and the forthcoming general election, but he did not disclose details. The visit drew attention as Makinde declared in May he will run for president in 2027, while Obasanjo has not endorsed any candidate. Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde; former Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi; and a former Osun State governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, on Sunday visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo at…

Former Vice President and African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has fired back at former President Olusegun Obasanjo, insisting that he has no regrets choosing Nigeria over what he described as Obasanjo’s third-term agenda despite the support he gave the former leader before and after he became president. Atiku’s response came after Obasanjo said he regretted selecting him as vice president in 1999, describing the decision as the “biggest regret” of his political career. Speaking during a fireside chat with activist Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, at the unveiling of Charly Boy’s foundation and memoir in…

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Joash Amupitan, has directed commission officials to give priority attention to elderly voters during the August 15, 2026 governorship election in Osun State. Amupitan gave this directive on Saturday while inspecting the mock accreditation exercise across Osun State as part of preparations for the election. The INEC chairman commended the inspection at Polling Unit 1, Ward 1, Post Office, St. Peter’s Primary School, Ibokun, in Obokun Local Government Area, where he monitored the operation of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, and interacted with voters and election officials. He later…

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has said Nigeria alone had four million more births than the entire European Union. Musk made the claim on his X account on Saturday, citing his artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, as the source of the information. “Nigeria alone had 4 million more births than the entire EU last year,” he wrote on X. Musk’s remarks highlight Nigeria’s high birth rate compared with the European Union. Available data from Musk’s Grok showed that Nigeria recorded an estimated 7.8 million births in 2025, while the European Union had 3.5 million births. This means Nigeria recorded approximately four…

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has rejected former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s latest criticism of him, describing it as another attempt to rewrite the history of their political relationship. Atiku said he stood by Obasanjo while the former military ruler was in prison, supported him after his release and played a major role in his emergence as President in 1999. He also defended his opposition to the alleged third-term agenda during the Obasanjo administration, saying he had no regrets for choosing constitutional democracy over personal loyalty. Atiku made the remarks in a statement issued on Saturday by his Senior Special Assistant on…

Federal Capital Territory, FCT Minister Nyesom Wike is currently meeting with some key members of the Rainbow Coalition to decide the next governor of Rivers State. CN gathered that political bigwigs drawn from the coalition’s cross-party ranks, including allies from the All Progressives Congress, APC, factions of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP amongst others are meeting behind a closed-door in Port Harcourt. According to insiders, the stakeholders are discussing a possible consensus candidate to fly the coalition’s flag which is likely to come from the All Progressives Congress, APC. The Rainbow Coalition is the broad political platform founded by the former…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has published the personal particulars of candidates nominated for the 2027 presidential and National Assembly elections, with President Bola Tinubu’s nomination documents showing that the sections for his primary and secondary education were left blank. The documents, contained in Form EC9 and made available for public inspection in line with Section 29(3) of the Electoral Act 2026, include candidates’ personal details, educational qualifications, work history, affidavits and supporting documents submitted by political parties. Tinubu’s Form EC9, filed for the 2027 presidential election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), lists only…