Felix Duru Mbah

By Idibia Gabriel, Kaduna A fresh scandal is rocking the Kaduna Polytechnic. On the heels of the subsisting allegation of land grabbing on the institution's Bypass-By-Television Village site by outsiders believed to be fronting for some staff of the federal polytechnic, the school is now gripped by a bids controversy over its move to lease out the school's hotels for five years to qualified operators. The reported rejection of a particular highest bidder's proposal has sparked outrage and suspicion in governance accountability and transparency circles in the Northern political capital. Worse still, no genuine reason was given for the rejection…

*'Public Officials Should Experience Realities On Ground' By Prosper Okoye Civil society groups in Nigeria have criticised a call by Senate President Godswill Akpabio for the return of police security personnel to members of the National Assembly and other senior public officials. The criticism followed Akpabio’s appeal to President Bola Tinubu to review his recent directive withdrawing police operatives attached to Very Important Persons (VIPs). The president said the move was intended to redeploy officers to tackle wider security challenges across the country. Speaking during President Tinubu’s presentation of the 2026 budget at a joint sitting of the National Assembly…

A coalition of pan-Igbo self determination groups --American Veterans of Igbo Descent (AVID), Ambassadors for Self-Determination (ASD) and Rising Sun Foundation (RSF) -- has slammed Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, over his claim, some days ago, that President Bola Tinubu has integrated Igbos into Nigeria's mainstream, thus rendering the Biafra agitation unwarranted. Frowning at such claim, the coalition queried Umahi, who was a governor of Ebonyi State in South-East Nigeria, picking several holes in the Minister's assertion even as it described him allegedly as a betrayer. Furthermore, the group tracked back into global history and concluded that the activities of…

*President Redefines Who Can Be Tagged A Terrorist *'If You Wield Lethal Weapon, Act Outside State Authority, You Are A Terrorist' PROTOCOLS Distinguished Senate President, Rt. Honourable Speaker and Honourable Members of the House of Representatives,Distinguished Senators and Honourable Members of the National Assembly, Fellow Nigerians, I appear before this Joint Session of the National Assembly, in fulfilment of my constitutional duty, to present the 2026 Appropriation Bill of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This is a defining moment in our national journey of reform and transformation. Over the last two and a half years, we made a deliberate choice:…