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The Chairman of the Northern Traditional Rulers’ Council (NTRC) and Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar, has urged citizens to identify their priorities and communicate them to their state governors, stating that political leaders and traditional rulers are servants of the people. Speaking on Monday in his opening remarks at the 8th Executive Committee Meeting of the NTRC in Jigawa State, the Sultan stressed that citizens must engage their governors regarding public expenditure, and not leave leaders to dictate how public funds are spent unilaterally. “Just like the traditional rulers, the governors are also servants of the people, and people should…
Every nation eventually reaches a point where silence stops being prudence and becomes complicity. There are moments when patience can no longer disguise decay, when restraint begins to look like indifference, and when good people must decide whether comfort matters more than truth. Nations do not decline only because bad actors are bold. They also decline because decent citizens, respected leaders and responsible institutions choose silence when danger is plain. Nigeria is approaching such a moment. Public trust is thinning. Insecurity has unsettled communities and weakened livelihoods. Suspicion around elections remains deep. Confidence in the judiciary is fragile. Institutions that…
A British court on Monday convicted two men of a series of arson attacks on two houses in London and a car linked to Prime Minister Keir Starmer. A jury at London’s Old Bailey found Roman Lavrynovych, 22, and Stanislav Carpiuc, 27, both guilty of conspiring to damage property by fire. Overnight attacks in May 2025 targeted two houses in Kentish Town, north London, the first of which was managed by a company where Starmer had been a director and the second of which was his former residence and the home of his sister-in-law and her family. The attackers set…
The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested eight suspected armed robbers and drug dealers in Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State. In a statement issued on Monday in Yola, the command’s spokesman, SP Suleiman Nguroje, said the suspects were arrested during a coordinated operation in the Yolde-Pate area. “On the strength of credible intelligence, operatives carried out a coordinated operation in Yola, leading to the arrest of eight suspects for criminal conspiracy, unlawful possession of dangerous weapons, and the sale and consumption of banned substances,” he said. The suspects were identified as Bawuro Mohammad, 23; Hamza Hassan, 18;…
Few questions in Nigerian land litigation recur with the persistence of this one: when does the State actually own what it says it has acquired, and what becomes of the citizen whose title predates the acquisition but who was never served, never compensated, and never formally divested? The Magodo Shangisha appeals, decided together by the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos, returns a clear and disciplined answer. A government that pleads compulsory acquisition must prove it by evidence and not by the gazette alone, and a Certificate of Occupancy raised upon an acquisition that never satisfied the conditions of validity…
Today, I’m talking with Adam Bry, who is CEO of Skydio, the leading US maker of autonomous drones. Before we recorded this episode, I actually got to remotely operate one of Skydio’s drones in the Bay Area from Adam’s laptop in our podcast studio in New York and fly an indoor drone around our office. You can check out the full video of that on our YouTube channel.Beyond flying drones around the country, Adam and I talked about why Skydio is so focused on the enterprise market — I asked him a lot about working with police and military, but…
Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest public Bitcoin holder, added to its cryptocurrency reserves last week as BTC continued to trade below the company’s average cost basis of about $75,700.Strategy acquired 1,587 Bitcoin (BTC) for $100 million between June 8 and Sunday, according to Monday’s 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.Source: SECThe purchase was made at an average price of $63,024 per Bitcoin, bringing the company’s overall average cost basis slightly lower to $75,656.With the latest buy, Strategy now holds 846,842 BTC, accumulated at a total cost of $64.07 billion. At the current price of about $66,216…
Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships. We receive compensation when you click on a link and make a purchase. Learn more! By the time summer rolls around, I want my wardrobe to do as little work as possible. The last thing I want to do on a hot morning is piece together an outfit when it’s already 85 degrees outside. That’s exactly why matching sets become my unofficial summer uniform every year. I’ve spent more hours scrolling Amazon than I’d like to admit, and matching sets are one category I never stop checking. The best ones look put together with almost…
The House of Representatives has reshuffled the leadership of several standing committees following recent changes to its minority caucus leadership. Speaker Abbas Tajudeen disclosed the adjustments during Monday’s emergency plenary, stating that the vacancies created by the appointment of some lawmakers into new minority leadership positions necessitated the reconstitution of affected committees. Under the new arrangement, the House Committee on Special Duties, previously chaired by new Minority Leader Fred Agbedi, will now be headed by Aliyu Madaki, the immediate past deputy minority leader. Similarly, Ali Isa, the former minority whip, has been appointed chairperson of the House Committee on Shippers…
It’s almost uncanny that when I get thinking about an issue around the economy lately, events conspire to push such matters to the front burner of public discourse. This time, it is about the matter of investment. Nairametrics’ take on the subject matter has got many pundits – in and out of government – chiming in with their perspective. For me, I see the issue from a slightly different, even if significant perspective. Some weeks back, I put a call through to a smart officer of our bureau for statistics, asking him how the investment function is captured in the…
