NEWS

Sani Seeks Scrutiny of Reported $700bn Nigeria-US Mining Deal

Daily Dispatch September 25, 2026

Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, has called for greater transparency and parliamentary scrutiny of the reported $700 billion mineral exploration deal between Nigeria and the United States. Sani, in a statement on his X handle, described the reported agreement, reached on the sidelines

Politics

2027: Wike to lead campaign team for Tinubu’s re-election in FCT, Rivers

Daily Dispatch September 25, 2026

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has announced plans to inaugurate and lead the campaign machinery in Abuja and Rivers State to drive the re-election bid of President Bola Tinubu. Wike disclosed this in Chikuku, Abuja on Friday, after he inspected the ongoing construction of Phase two of the Kuje-Gwagwalada […]

NEWS

39bn Cocaine Haul: NDLEA Docks KC Luxury, 2 Others, Uncovers Multi-Billion Naira Money Trail

Daily Dispatch September 25, 2026

…Court remands trio as agency links luxury influencer to 184.5kg UK-bound cocaine The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered an alleged multi-billion-naira financial network behind a 184.5-kilogramme cocaine shipment valued at about ₦39 billion, as the agency arraigned luxury lifestyle influencer Afolabi Kazeem Michael, popularly known as KC Luxury, and

NEWS

Climate Crisis: ECOWAS Parliamentarians Warn of ‘Security Time Bomb’ as Land, Water Shrink

Daily Dispatch September 25, 2026

West Africa is facing a widening climate-driven crisis in which shrinking water resources, degraded farmland and changing weather patterns are increasingly fuelling competition for land, aggravating farmer-herder conflicts, displacing communities and deepening poverty, parliamentarians from the region have warned. The warning came as lawmakers at the Second 2026

NEWS

70 Years After Shell Abandoned Oil Wells, Akwa Ibom Communities Demand Justice, Cleanup

Daily Dispatch September 25, 2026

Farmers, fishers report poisoned streams, dying crops, lost livelihoods as HOMEF demands decommissioning, compensation Nearly seven decades after Shell drilled and abandoned oil wells in parts of Akwa Ibom State, communities in Ikono and Ibiono Ibom Local Government Areas are demanding that the company and government authorities account for the environmental damage and

COLUMNS

Tinubu, Kashim Shettima and Nigeria’s Call for a More Representative United Nations

Daily Dispatch September 25, 2026

By: Dr James Bwala At the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu delivered a powerful appeal for the transformation of the international system. Represented at the General Debate by Vice President Kashim Shettima, the Nigerian leader argued that the United Nations can no longer operate according to a structure […]