PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu says no national priority weighs more heavily on his mind than Nigeria’s escalating security crisis, especially the violence ravaging large parts of the North. News Point Nigeria reports that the president stated this on Saturday in Kaduna at the 25th Anniversary of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and the launch of its Endowment Fund. Tinubu was represented at the event by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas. Tinubu described insecurity as the most troubling threat confronting the country, stressing that Nigeria cannot move toward economic recovery or social stability unless peace is…
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SENATOR Seriake Dickson, representing Bayelsa West in the National Assembly, has clarified why he withdrew from the Senate Committee on Local Content’s investigation into former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, over an alleged $14.8 million diversion belonging to the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB). News Point Nigeria reports that in a detailed statement posted on his official Meta page on Saturday, the former governor said he recused himself on grounds that the probe was “selective” and lacked the broad-spectrum inquiry necessary to ensure fairness, transparency, and credibility. Sylva was declared wanted by the Economic…
THE National Universities Commission (NUC) has banned universities in Nigeria from conferring honorary doctorate awards to serving public officials, including politicians and appointed office holders. News Point Nigeria reports tThe Commission has also uncovered 32 institutions operating as honorary doctorate degree mills, including 10 unaccredited foreign universities, 4 unlicensed local universities. Executive Secretary of NUC, Professor Abdullahi Yusufu Ribadu, announced this in Abuja on Friday while receiving a report from a committee investigating the award and public use/misuse of honorary doctorate degrees by recipients in Nigeria. Ribadu vowed that the Commission will begin a crackdown on illegal universities awarding fake…
SIXTEEN Prospective Corps Members (PCMs) have tragically lost their lives in a road accident while travelling to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp in Gombe State. News Point Nigeria reports that two other students from the same trip survived, but both remained in critical condition at a hospital. The victims were reportedly all graduates of Adeyemi Federal University of Education (AFUED) in Ondo State. They were travelling in an 18‑seater bus when the crash occurred. Eyewitnesses said the accident was catastrophic, leaving two survirors fatally wounded. Emergency responders recovered the bodies and evacuated the injured to a local…
THE Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday issued a blistering rebuke of factional Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman, Tanimu Turaki, after the latter called on U.S. President Donald Trump and other Western nations to intervene in Nigeria’s political affairs. News Point Nigeria reports that Wike’s outburst came on the same day police authorities sealed the national headquarters of the PDP at Wadata Plaza, Abuja, amid an escalating leadership crisis that has fractured the opposition party and triggered unrest among supporters. Turaki had on Tuesday accused the Federal Government of endangering Nigeria’s democracy and raised…
THE lawmaker representing Kebbi South, Senator Garba Maidoki, is optimistic of an early return for schoolgirls abducted in the State. Maidoki spoke on Wednesday when he was featured on Channels Television’s Politics Today monitored by News Point Nigeria, days after gunmen abducted about 25 students from the Government Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State. “We have a fair idea where the girls are, and we are sure they have not moved outside the Kebbi South Senatorial District,” Maidoki said on the current affairs show. “There is high hope that the girls will return home in one or two…
THE House of Representatives has fixed Thursday for a full-day national security debate as killings, mass abductions and violent attacks continue to spread across the country. News Point Nigeria reports that Speaker Abbas Tajudeen announced the plan at plenary on Tuesday, saying the deteriorating security situation requires urgent and collective action from lawmakers and security agencies. The decision comes amid fresh global attention on Nigeria’s security crisis following recent comments by United States President Donald Trump, who claimed “record numbers of Christians” were being killed in the country. Trump further warned that the U.S. “would not allow it to continue,”…
KABIRU Turaki on Tuesday assumed office as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). His resumption came after a standoff at the party’s Wadata Secretariat in Abuja, News Point Nigeria reports. “For the past seven hours, Nigerians are living witnesses to the struggle we’ve been engaged in with those renegade members of our party that were expelled at our national convention in Ibadan,” Turaki said while addressing pressmen. “They came here with armed thugs that we did predict would disrupt our meetings, but God so kind, we were able to contain them effectively.” He said, “Now, we have…
THE Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Joash Ojo Amupitan, SAN, has declared that the deployment of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) has effectively solved the protracted challenge of identity theft in Nigeria’s elections. News Point Nigeria reports that he made the declaration while speaking at the 2025 Digital Nigeria International Conference and Exhibitions in Abuja, held on Tuesday November 11, 2025 and organised by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) In his keynote address, the INEC Chairman, who was represented by Mrs May Agbamuche-Mbu, a National Commissioner, stated that the era of multiple voting…
NIGERIAN students studying abroad under the Federal Government’s Bilateral Education Agreement (BEA) scholarship programme, alongside their parents, are set to stage a major protest today (Monday) in Abuja over the government’s prolonged failure to release their stipends. News Point Nigeria reports that the protest, scheduled for 10am at the Federal Ministry of Finance headquarters in the Central Business District, was confirmed in a notice issued by the Forum of BEA Scholars. Parents of the stranded scholars told News Point Nigeria that they would join the demonstration, saying they could no longer cope with the emotional and financial hardship imposed by…
AS Nigeria marked its 65th Independence Anniversary on October 1, 2025, a voice from Mubi, Adamawa State, cut through the patriotic messages flooding a Lagos radio station. Zephaniah Yako, calling from the troubled northeastern town, delivered a painful reminder of life far away from major cities, life in Nigeria’s vast, ungoverned spaces where terrorists roam freely, security access is nearly impossible, and communities are left to fend for themselves. Yako’s message was simple but urgent: Send security forces to the abandoned hinterlands before the terrorists finish the people. “You live here in the city and when there is an attack,…
A FEDERAL High Court in Abuja has issued a final order halting the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) 2025 national convention, effectively putting the party’s plans for a crucial leadership reshuffle on hold. The order was handed down on Friday by Justice Peter Lifu, who ruled that the opposition party must first comply with its constitution and internal guidelines before proceeding with the event scheduled for November 15 and 16 in Ibadan, Oyo State. News Point Nigeria reports that the convention was intended to elect new national officers amid growing internal wrangling and competing political interests. The ruling followed a suit…
THE Senate has moved to outlaw the recruitment of persons under the age of 18 into the military as it passed the Armed Forces (Repeal and Re-enactment) Bill, 2025, for second reading. The provision, which prohibits the enlistment of minors, aligns Nigeria’s military practices with the Child Rights Act (2003), the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. The bill, sponsored by Senator Abdulaziz Yar’Adua (Katsina Central), seeks to repeal the existing Armed Forces Act, 2004, replacing it with a constitutionally compliant and operationally responsive law.…
FORMER President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, has called on Nigerians to show utmost respect for the country’s armed forces, following the recent altercation between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and a naval officer in Abuja. News Point Nigeria reports that speaking to journalists after meeting President Bola Tinubu at the State House, Abuja, Lawan commended the armed forces for their sacrifices and commitment to national security. Lawan said Nigerians, regardless of social or political status, must recognise the selflessness of the military. “Let me commend our armed forces and other security agencies for doing so…
‘Abdulsalam Hudu Authorised To Operate Account’ THE Sixth Prosecution Witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mshelia Arhyel Bata, on Thursday, told the Federal Capital Territory High Court that he was never the account officer of Kogi State Government House Administration Account. He admitted that the account was domiciled in the bank’s Lokoja branch, noting that he never worked there. The witness, a compliance officer with Zenith Bank Plc, offered the explanations before Justice Maryann Anenih while being cross-examined by Joseph Daudu, SAN, Counsel to the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, in the ongoing alleged money…
FORMER Vice President Atiku Abubakar has denied reports claiming that he gifted a brand-new Toyota SUV to Lieutenant Ahmed Yerima, the naval officer involved in a recent altercation with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. In a statement issued via his X handle on Thursday sighted by News Point Nigeria, Atiku’s Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, described the report, which has been circulating widely on social media, as completely false and without any factual basis. Ibe, therefore, urged the public to disregard the fabricated story. “His Excellency Atiku Abubakar, Vice President of Nigeria (1999–2007), did not gift Lt.…
TENSION rippled through the National Assembly on Wednesday following conflicting statements from two senior lawmakers over alleged moves to impeach Senate President Godswill Akpabio. While Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele firmly dismissed the rumours as baseless and mischievous, former Senate Chief Whip Orji Uzor Kalu confirmed that there had indeed been past attempts by some lawmakers to unseat Akpabio though he said the plots were thwarted in the interest of unity. The development comes amid renewed speculation of internal wrangling within the upper chamber, nearly 17 months after Akpabio assumed office as Senate President in June 2023. Speaking on the floor…
THE Minister of Defence, Badaru Abubakar, has said that the Federal Government will always protect officers of the Nigerian armed forces on official duty. He stated this at a press briefing to commence activities for the 2026 Armed Forces Remembrance Day at the National Defence College, Abuja, on Wednesday. “At the ministry and indeed the armed forces, we will always protect our officers on lawful duty. “Rest assured that any officer on lawful duty will be protected. I will not allow anything to happen to any officer doing his job and doing his job credibly well,” Abubakar said. His comment…
JUSTICE Maryann Anenih of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, on Wednesday, adjourned the alleged money laundering trial of the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, to tomorrow, November 13, 2025. The court granted the adjournment on the request of the Defendant’s Counsel, Joseph Daudu, SAN. Both parties agreed to the adjournment for the cross examination of the EFCC’s witness, Mshelia Arhyel, a compliance officer with Zenith Bank. At the resumed hearing of the case instituted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission against the former governor, Arhyel, the sixth prosecution witness, was asked to give details of…
THINGS got heated between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, his entourage, and some soldiers when he was stopped from gaining access to a land in the Gaduwa district of the area. “This is unprofessional. You cannot be threatening a minister like this,” one of the officials accompanying Wike told the soldiers as the minister and his team tried to gain access to the land. The minister, unhappy over the development, questioned the actions of the military officers, saying no one is above the laws of the land. Wike questioned the development of the land, alleging that…