Sahara Reporters

The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) Bank, has been lopsided in its appointments since its establishment in 2015, suggesting a blatant disregard for Nigeria’s Federal Character principle, SaharaReporters can report. SaharaReporters gathered that NIRSAL Bank has consistently appointed only Northerners as Managing Directors since its inception in 2015.  Furthermore, an astonishing […]

It was learnt that the gunmen on Saturday stormed Jide Jones, Oke-Ilewo area of Abeokuta South Local Government Area of Ogun State and shot him.  Adeyinka Adeleke, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Councillorship candidate for Abeokuta South Local Government Ward 15 in the forthcoming November 16 Local Government Polls in Ogun State has been killed

The Court of Appeal has granted a landmark appeal in the claim of two Nigerian communities whose environment has been devastated by oil pollution, allegedly caused by Shell plc’s Nigerian subsidiary SPDC. The appeal, which was granted on Friday 11 October 2024, overturns a High Court ruling in March 2024, which would have made it

Human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, has described President Bola Tinubu as a “bad person” in the face of the growing hardship faced by millions of Nigerians. Senator Ali Ndume, representing Borno South senatorial district, had stated that certain individuals were pushing “harmful policies” under the President Bola Tinubu-led government instead of focusing on controlling inflation

Top Image Africa (TIA), an MTN Nigeria partner organisation has described an allegation by the disengaged staff that the company is owing them three months salary areas as “unfounded, baseless and falsehood.”  The company in a statement issued by its  Legal Officer  J.S. Kure, Esq made available to SaharaReporters on Saturday denied owing three months

   

A family source who did not confirmed the death of the former governor’s son, saying the deceased was involved in an accident. A former governor of Kaduna State, Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi, has lost his son, Faisal Ahmed, to a road crash on the Kaduna-Zaria Highway.  A family source who did not confirmed the death of the former governor’s

A fact-checking organisation based in Nigeria,  RoundCheck has established a specialised desk to tackle the growing issue of gender disinformation, which disproportionately affects women and hinders gender equality. This was announced in a press statement issued on Saturday by Bello Wasiu, Roundcheck’s Communications Officer, stating that the newly founded desk would focus on combating the

The Civil Society for Total Democracy (CSTD); a group of pro-democracy movements, on the Local Government Autonomy has called on the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA) to hand off issues relating to the Alimosho Local Government. On Monday, the Lagos assembly had suspended Jelili Sulaimon, chair of Alimosho Local Government Area, for “non-compliance, defiance

The House of Representatives has taken a further step towards the establishment of Bola Tinubu Federal University of Nigerian Languages. It was learnt that the bill towards the establishment of the university was sponsored by the Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu, and eight others and passed the first reading stage last week. A section of the

The Ondo State government has clarified that the state governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa is not the alleged woman abuser, seen in a viral video. A press statement issued by Comrade Allen Sowore, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor of Ondo State on Strategic Communication on Saturday described the viral video as a plot deployed by