Nigeria’s banking sector has entered a season of reckoning. Eight of the nation’s biggest banks have collectively booked N1.96 trillion in impairment charges in just the first nine months of 2025 which represents a staggering 49 percent increase from the N1.32 trillion recorded in the same period of 2024.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Central Business Districts, Mr. Olugbenga Oyerinde, has again decried the incessant attacks on its personnel by commercial bus drivers, hoodlums and miscreants within the Lagos Island Business District.
The venue of the planned Yoruba Nation rally was the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota, Lagos. Like soldier ants, over 20 patrol vehicles belonging to the Police, the DSS, TASKFORCE and OP MESA (military) were there as early as 6.49 am. Their mission was to make sure the rally did not hold.
The battle between Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan took another twist on Friday as the Kogi Central Senator accused her Akwa Ibom counterpart of sexual harassment.