Heirs Holdings chairman, Tony Elumelu used the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York to call for global private capital to be mobilised into Africa’s infrastructure, warning that without urgent investment the continent risks being left behind by the AI revolution, while also addressing President Tinubu’s third straight UNGA absence by saying leaders prioritise based on what matters most.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government, through Information Minister Mohammed Idris, insists Nigeria remains fully represented at the summit through Vice President Kashim Shettima, even as President Tinubu has now extended his working vacation abroad and is expected back only at the weekend, after more than three weeks away in London and Paris.
In live television claim, FCT Minister Nyesom Wike revealed that he and the G-5 governors deliberately allowed Peter Obi to win Edo and Cross Rivers states in the 2023 election to cut into Atiku Abubakar’s South-South voter base, while admitting Rivers State blocked Obi to avoid sending the wrong signal.
Concurrently, Esan West Local Government Chairman Blessing Ebho-daghe is facing scrutiny after a leaked, unauthenticated audio allegedly threatened a hotel that hosted an NDC meeting, he was seen warning commercial drivers they’d be barred from a motor park for not wearing APC caps.
Senate President Godswill Akpabio spoke of his trip to Rome as his tenth pilgrimage to pray for Nigeria’s security and a peaceful 2027 election, crediting the shrine with his wife’s recovery from a coma.
In Lagos, Environment Commissioner Tokunbo Wahab issued an urgent seven-day flood alert for low-lying and riverine areas including Eti-Osa, Lagos Island, Ajah and Kirikiri from September 19th to 25th.
The Federal Controller of Works threatened to shut down the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road within two weeks over speeding, vandalism and drainage-cover theft.
NSCDC raided and shut an illegal Badagry juice factory found using no real fruit and employing minors, a bust that fuelled fresh alarm after a viral video showed a Capri-Sun pouch with cloudy liquid, though neither claim has been lab-confirmed.
In Taraba, nursing students protested after hoodlums broke into an off-campus hostel and allegedly raped a student in the second such attack in two weeks, demanding the state open unused on-campus hostels immediately.
In a historic first, Professor Obi Ekwenna-Davis performed Nigeria’s first long-distance robotic surgery, removing a kidney tumour from a patient in Abuja while operating a robotic console 500 kilometres away in Mowe, Ogun State, using Starlink technology.
Overseas, Earl Charles Spencer accused King Charles of gaslighting him, saying the press treatment of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle echoes how Princess Diana was treated before her death.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s appearance on the Curiosity Made Me Ask podcast has become a viral sensation, with the 89-year-old admitting he had no idea who Don Jazzy is before delivering a line that broke the internet.
Finally, Nigeria is celebrating Juju music legend King Sunny Ade on his 80th birthday, honouring the “Minister of Enjoyment” whose global career includes two Grammy nominations and a legacy spanning nearly six decades.
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