The House of Representatives has uncovered about 58 bank accounts allegedly linked to Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, Director-General of the purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), alongside an alleged N400 million transaction that lawmakers said may have involved fraudulent representations. The discovery comes months after Pinnacle Daily reported that Nigeria’s 2026 budget allocated N1.3 billion …
Terrorist faction collected 90% of ransom paid nationwide from just eight cases as 7,825 Nigerians were abducted in one year A single faction of Boko Haram collected about ₦7 billion, roughly 90 per cent of all ransom paid in Nigeria in one year, from just eight kidnapping incidents, exposing a dramatic transformation in the …
The Federal Government has ruled out negotiations with terrorists, insisting that military defeat remains the only effective response to terrorism and violent extremism. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, made the position known in Luanda, Angola, where she spoke with journalists on the sidelines of the 21st Extraordinary Session of the African Union …
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume, has inaugurated the Presidential Committee on the National Threat Assessment and Five-Year Strategic Defence Operations Plan, charging members to approach the assignment with professionalism, urgency, objectivity and patriotism. The committee, established by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has 90 days to produce a comprehensive National …
About 17,000 Nigerians, mostly victims of attacks by insurgents in the North-East and other parts of the country, remain missing, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has reported. The figure was released ahead of the International Day of the Disappeared, observed annually on August 30, highlighting the continuing struggle of families searching for …
The Coalition for Whistleblower Protection and Press Freedom (CWPPF) has condemned the alleged assault, harassment and destruction of the mobile phone of the Editor of Pinnacle Daily, Sunday Michael Ogwu, by police operatives during a demolition exercise in Lugbe, Abuja. The coalition said that Ogwu was flogged with an electric cable after he attempted to …
President Bola Tinubu has ordered the immediate preparation of a comprehensive National Threat Assessment and a five-year Strategic Defence Operations Plan to strengthen coordination among Nigeria’s defence, intelligence and security agencies. The President gave the directive on Wednesday during the Federal Executive Council meeting at the State House, Abuja. Under the directive, Special Adviser to …
The Presidential Working Group on the National Policing Bill has extended deadline for the submission of memoranda and position papers on the proposed legislation to 5 pm on Friday, August 21, 2026. The extension was announced on Thursday by Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu and Chairman of the Presidential Working Group. …
President Bola Tinubu, Sultan of Sokoto Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar and the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, have called on Nigerians to reject religious intolerance, hate speech and the manipulation of ethnic and religious identities for political purposes. The call was made at an international conference on national security and …
President Bola Tinubu has called for stronger dialogue and mutual understanding among Muslims, Christians and people of other faiths, saying peaceful coexistence is essential to Nigeria’s stability and prosperity. The president’s position was conveyed on Monday by the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, during the inauguration of the Muslim World League Mosque …
