MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas The Federal Government of Nigeria has launched a major initiative to overhaul the country’s electricity distribution sector, starting with a pilot reform of two underperforming Distribution Companies, DisCos. Bolaji Tunji, Special Adviser, Strategic Communications and Media Relations to the minister of power in a statement in Abuja on Monday, said that the […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mr. Bayo Ojulari, has promised that oil exploration in northern Nigeria will continue. He said drilling activities at the Kolmani oil field in the North-East will soon resume. Mr Ojulari made this known during an interview with the BBC, […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas The monarch made this declaration over the weekend during a historic visit to his palace by a high-powered delegation of Warri chiefs and Itsekiri leaders. The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Akeem Owoade I, has stated that the Itsekiri people are direct descendants of Oduduwa. He also added that they are an […] Read more
By Farooq A. Kperogi MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Although he doesn’t look it physically, Pope Leo XIV, the brand-new pope, has documented Black, and possibly some Nigerian or Beninese, ancestry from his maternal side. Today’s Saturday Tribune column dissects that in light of America’s politics of race and identity: The New Pope is “Black,” Now What? […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Benin Republic Shuts Border With Kwara Communities Over Attacks By New Terror Group Mahmuda, Arms Smuggling – Sources On Tuesday, May 7, 2025, the President of Benin Republic ordered a total closure of the border route between Taberu, a village in Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara State, and Tanu, a neighbouring […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Not Foreign Herders – Miyetti Allah Reveals Masterminds of Plateau Crisis The National Secretary of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Fulani Socio-cultural Association, Saleh Alhassan, has claimed that politicians are the real cause of the crisis in Plateau State, not herders. He made the claim on Friday during an appearance on Channels […] Read more
By Bola BOLAWOLE MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas “The bottomline is for the refineries to work – eventually. If they do not, President Tinubu should understand that former President Obasanjo is waiting around the corner to laugh him to scorn!” Reports that N90 billion was found in the account of one of the recently-sacked Managing Directors of […] Read more
By Punch Editorial Board MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas NIGERIA is teetering on the brink. From Niger to Kaduna, Zamfara to Sokoto, Borno to Kwara and Plateau to Benue, Islamic terrorists, bandits, and Fulani herders are painting the landscape with innocent blood. This must stop. The devastating attacks have intensified in the past month, Nigeria recording a […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday played a video recording allegedly showing the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, issuing inflammatory directives which the prosecution claims incited acts of terrorism across the South-East region of the country. The Wednesday proceedings resumed before Justice James Omotosho […] Read more
By Prince Wola MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Kemi Badenoch once seemed like the rising star of UK politics—a British Conservative leader with Nigerian roots, hailed by some as a symbol of modern, merit-based success. But today, her political future is hanging by a thread. After suffering a devastating blow in the recent UK local elections—losing over […] Read more
