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EDITORIAL: Kaiama kidnappings and the need to root out intelligence sabotage

Nigeria, Feb. 19 -- The siege of terrorists in the North-central part of Nigeria, characterised by serial kidnappings and the killings of citizens, appears to have put the security chiefs at their wit... Read More


'You see my videos and ask me to campaign for Tinubu?' - Governor Anuneke on partisan pressure

Nigeria, Feb. 19 -- Nigerian content creator, Kevin Chinedu Arua, popularly known as Governor Amuneke, has said he would not lend his platform to partisan political campaigns. The Enugu State-born co... Read More


Nigerian senator, Barinada Mpigi, is dead

Nigeria, Feb. 19 -- The Senator representing Rivers South East Senatorial District, Barinada Mpigi, is dead. Mr Mpigi passed away in the early hours of Thursday at the age of 64 after a prolonged ill... Read More


Two steps to make PREMIUM TIMES your "preferred source" on Google

Nigeria, Feb. 19 -- Popular search engine, Google, has made a slight change to how readers consume news articles. It has introduced a feature that lets readers select which news platforms appear in th... Read More


Biodun Jeyifo: The giant who shaped how we understand African literature, ByToyin Falola

Nigeria, Feb. 19 -- I read the news early in the morning of 11 February. The activist for African intellectual freedom, Biodun Jeyifo, had passed away at the age of 80. I had just seen him one month e... Read More


Beyond surgery: Why healing women with vesicovaginal fistula requires more than medicine, By Amogi Endurance Friday

Nigeria, Feb. 19 -- In many parts of northern Nigeria, childbirth is still a test of survival. For thousands of women, it ends not with celebration, but with silence, shame, and abandonment. This sile... Read More


Gas flaring in Nigeria: Why compliance still lags, By Mide Alabi

Nigeria, Feb. 19 -- If you grew up anywhere near an oil-producing community in Nigeria, gas flaring is not an abstraction. It is constant light without electricity, heat without benefit, and pollution... Read More


Nigeria's Electoral Act 2026: What Really Changed, and What Didn't

Nigeria, Feb. 19 -- On 18 February, President Bola Tinubu signed the Electoral Bill 2026 into law. This has been a bruising few weeks: sustained protests outside the National Assembly, a disputed voi... Read More


Biodun Jeyifo: Celebrating a life devoted to incisive and analytical thinking, By Yaro Yusuf Mamman

Nigeria, Feb. 19 -- Once upon a time, we were witnesses to unending intellectual combats in Nigerian universities - contests between different schools of thought across multiple disciplines, particula... Read More


Former UBA Chairman Israel Ogbue is dead

Nigeria, Feb. 19 -- United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has announced the death of its former chairman, Israel Ogbue. Mr Ogbue, 99, died on Thursday, the bank said in a statement. "He joined the UBA Bo... Read More