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Written by Elvis Onuigbo The APC has secured five out of six area councils in Abuja’s local elections, strengthening its political grip in the FCT. Here’s what the victory means for 2027 and the future of Nigeria’s opposition. The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has delivered a commanding performance in the recent Area Council elections in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), winning five out of the six councils. The result is more than just a local government victory — it is a political statement that may reshape conversations heading into the 2027 general elections. For a city often seen as politically diverse and symbolic of Nigeria’s national mood, Abuja’s electoral direction carries weight beyond its borders. The outcome has sparked debate among analysts, party loyalists, and opposition figures alike. While APC supporters describe it as a validation of governance and party structure, critics see it as a wake-up call for opposition force...

By Elvis Onuigbo NIMASA and the Nigerian Air Force have renewed their strategic partnership to enhance maritime security, protect offshore assets, and strengthen Nigeria’s growing blue economy. NIMASA and the Nigerian Air Force have renewed their strategic partnership to enhance maritime security, protect offshore assets, and strengthen Nigeria’s growing blue economy. In a renewed effort to secure Nigeria’s vast maritime resources, the Director-General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dayo Mobereola, has reaffirmed the agency’s commitment to strengthening collaboration with the Nigerian Air Force (NAF). Mobereola made this known during a strategic visit to the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sunday Kelvin Aneke, at the NAF Headquarters in Abuja. The high-level meeting signals a stronger alliance between Nigeria’s maritime and air security authorities aimed at safeguarding the nation’s territorial waters and critical...

Trump Is Fit to Lead — Here's Why Look, whether you like him or not, you have to admit one thing: Donald Trump is not a man who quits. He's been investigated, impeached twice, taken to court more times than most people can count, and even survived an assassination attempt. And after all of that, he came back and won the presidency again. That's not luck — that's a level of resilience most politicians could only dream of. Think back to before COVID hit. The economy was genuinely humming. Unemployment was at record lows for Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans. People had more money in their pockets. Small businesses were expanding. You don't get numbers like that by accident — that takes someone willing to cut through red tape and actually let the economy breathe. On the world stage, his supporters will tell you — and they have a point — that things felt more contained. The Abraham Accords were a real breakthrough that so-called foreign policy experts...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — February 20, 2026 The Trump administration has drawn a hard, unambiguous line in the sand — and the world is watching to see who blinks first. President Donald Trump has issued one of the most dramatic ultimatums in modern American foreign policy, giving Iran a window of just 10 to 15 days to come to the negotiating table and agree to terms on its nuclear program — or face what administration officials are warning could be a devastating and wide-scale military campaign. The message from the White House is blunt, direct, and backed by an overwhelming show of military force that the region has not seen in years. "We're either going to get a deal, or it's going to be unfortunate for them," Trump said, in language that left little room for diplomatic interpretation. To understand this moment, you have to understand the road that led to it. This is not a crisis that erupted overnight. It has been building through years of broken agreement...

By Elvis Onuigbo | February 19, 2026 Central Bank  Central Bank Governor Olayemi Cardoso warns that the rapid growth of stablecoin transactions  now approaching $22 billion annually in Nigeria  risks undermining monetary sovereignty and destabilising the naira. In the most forceful public statement yet from Nigeria's monetary authority on the subject of digital assets, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Olayemi Cardoso has issued a sweeping warning that the explosive growth of stablecoins and private digital payment platforms poses a direct threat to the country's foreign exchange stability, monetary sovereignty, and its ability to transmit monetary policy. Speaking at the G-24 Technical Group Meetings in Abuja on Wednesday, February 19, 2026, Cardoso placed Nigeria's stablecoin challenge in a broader global context, arguing that without coordinated international frameworks, emerging market economies like Nigeria stand to lose the most — watching their curr...

Tax Reform in Nigeria | February 19, 2026 REFORM AND REVENUE DRIVE: Is Nigeria Expanding Its Tax Net? An In-Depth Policy Analysis | Nigeria Tax Act, 2025/2026 Introduction: The Tax Problem Nigeria Has Always Had There is a question that has haunted Nigeria's fiscal planners for decades, and it goes something like this: how do you run a country of over 220 million people on the back of one commodity? Oil built Nigeria's modern state, but it also made the country dangerously lazy about building a robust, diversified revenue system. When oil prices fell — and they always eventually fell — the cracks showed immediately. Salaries went unpaid. Infrastructure stalled. Social services frayed. The same crisis, different year. For a long time, the answer from successive governments was to borrow. Nigeria's debt profile swelled. But borrowing has a ceiling, and debt servicing eventually crowds out every other line in the budget. The logical conclusion — the one that kept get...

Do Women Really Talk More Than Men? A Comprehensive Examination of Gender, Communication, and the Science Behind the Myth Few claims about gender differences are as widely repeated as the idea that women talk significantly more than men. Popular versions of this myth place women's daily word count at anywhere from 20,000 to 250,000 words, compared to a much lower figure attributed to men. These numbers have appeared in bestselling books, motivational speeches, television programs, and casual conversation across the globe. But what does the science actually say? Are women truly more talkative than men by nature, and if so, why? This article takes a thorough look at the research, the history of the myth, the biology and psychology of communication, and what genuinely drives differences in how humans talk. The Origin of the Myth The claim that women speak far more words per day than men was dramatically popularized by psychiatrist Louann Brizendine in her 2006 book The Female Brain. S...