The season of mass defection from one party to another is fast heating up, with lawmakers, especially from the opposition parties already testing the waters.

The Nigerian electricity sector teeters on the edge of bankruptcy, posing significant risks to other critical sectors of the economy following yesterday’s collapse of the national electricity grid—the 12th recorded failure in 2024.

A lot of aggrieved Nigerian electricity consumers are uninformed about how to enforce their rights against Distribution Companies (DisCos) over tariff disputes, service quality complaints and other grievances, such that some usually file charges in court to seek redress.

Concerns are growing over Nigeria's continued payment of a $400 million war risk premium to foreign insurance companies, despite zero record of attacks on vessels within the country's territorial waters in the past three years.

President Bola Tinubu has said the interest and welfare of the citizens in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger remain a priority for leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), assuring that the regional body is poised to deploy wisdom and diplomacy to reintegrate the countries into the commission.