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The withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has weakened key mechanisms for regional integration and created a major challenge to cooperation within West Africa, the Presidency has said. Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Public Communications, Sunday Dare, made the remarks on Thursday at a policy colloquium organised by the Ministry of Defence in Abuja. The three Sahelian countries formally left ECOWAS in January 2025, following their announcement in 2024 of plans to withdraw from the regional bloc. They have since strengthened their cooperation through the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). Dare said the withdrawal had disrupted regional mechanisms, particularly ECOWAS protocols aimed at promoting ec...

A kidney transplanted from a pig has worked inside a patient for 271 days, the longest on record, say US doctors. Doctors said the animal organ was used as a temporary “bridge” while the man waited for a transplant from a human donor. Tim Andrews, who had end-stage kidney disease, was 66 when he received the pig kidney in the US in January 2025. He lived successfully with the genetically edited organ for 271 days before moving to short-term dialysis and receiving a donor human kidney. It is the longest dialysis-free survival after a pig-kidney transplant in a living human and the first transition from pig-to-human kidney transplantation, doctors have said. The team from Mass General Brigham in the US published their findings in the Lancet medical journal. Lead auth...

The Presidency has clarified that the ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case involving records relating to President Bola Tinubu before a United States federal court is a civil records-disclosure dispute and not a criminal case.The clarification was contained in a statement issued on Thursday night by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy.According to Onanuga, the case, filed before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, concerns requests for the disclosure of government records under the US FOIA.  He said the matter originated from FOIA requests submitted in 2022 by Aaron Greenspan to several US government agencies seeking records relating to Tinubu.  “The Presidency has noted recent speculative reports ...

Former Rivers State governor and Vice-Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Rotimi Amaechi, has criticised the electricity tariff regime introduced by the President Bola Tinubu-led administration, alleging that the removal of electricity subsidy had drastically increased electricity bills for consumers.Amaechi made the declaration on Thursday, September 3, during ward visits across Omuma Local Government Area of Rivers State, where he delivered Atiku’s campaign message to residents.Using his personal electricity bill to illustrate the impact of the policy, Amaechi said his monthly bill had increased from N500,000 to N4 million.  “My house electricity bill was N500,000; now I pay N4 million. Atiku said if he comes, I will go back to N500,000. No more Band...

Federal authorities have arrested podcaster Azariah Southworth in Los Angeles over allegations that he threatened to kill US President Donald Trump and stalked the president's personal lawyer and his family. Southworth, who is 40, was reportedly arrested at his home in Westlake after FBI agents surrounded the residence and ordered him to surrender. According to court documents, prosecutors accused Southworth of repeatedly making threats against Trump through social media posts and private messages. He allegedly posted videos calling for violence against the president and also shared content depicting fictional acts of violence against Trump. Southworth is also accused of cyberstalking Trump's personal lawyer after allegedly sharing the lawyer's home address and photograph of hi...

The Federal Government has said Nigeria will never support a military coup or any unconstitutional change of government, following claims that the country backed a failed coup attempt in the Niger Republic. The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Sola Enikanolaiye, made this known in a statement issued on Thursday. According to the statement, the claims circulating on social media are baseless and misleading. Enikanolaiye said Nigeria remained committed to democracy, constitutional rule and political stability in West Africa and would not support any attempt to remove a government through unconstitutional means .“Nigeria will never support illegality or unconstitutional change of government anywhere, no matter who is involved or which country is concerned,” he said. ...