NIPOST Launches Nationwide Digital Postcode System
The Nigerian Postal Service rolled out a national digital postcode system across all thirty-six states…
NIPOST Launches Nationwide Digital Postcode System
The Nigerian Postal Service rolled out a national digital postcode system across all thirty-six states on Thursday, 1 October 2026, assigning unique eleven-character codes to every addressable building in the country. Communications Minister Bosun Tijani presented the project as an essential base for modern trade, linking the mapping drive to President Bola Tinubu’s stated goal…
INEC Registers 9.3m Youths Ahead of 2027 Polls
Nigeria’s electoral umpire enrolled more than 9.32 million young citizens during its 2026 continuous voter registration exercise, unveiling the tally in Abuja on Wednesday, 30 September, alongside nine celebrity ambassadors from the film, music, and comedy sectors to mobilise new voters. Speaking through national commissioner Rhoda Gumus at the investiture ceremony, commission chairman Joash Amupitan…
Gunmen Abduct 20 Corps Members in Imo
Gunmen intercepted two passenger buses along the Owerri to Onitsha expressway near the Umunoha community in Imo State on Thursday, 1 October 2026, abducting at least 20 National Youth Service Corps members on their way to orientation camps. The young university graduates set out from Ibadan to report for mandatory national service assignments across orientation…
Dakore, Timini Egbuson Celebrate Mother at 70
Nollywood screen stars Dakore Egbuson-Akande and Timini Egbuson celebrated their mother’s seventieth birthday on Thursday, 1 October 2026, marking the personal milestone with tributes across their public channels. The acting siblings shared private family photographs of their mother, inviting millions of their domestic and diaspora cinema followers to join in collective anniversary prayers. Bloodlines anchor…
How Global Colour Prejudice Dictates Who Steps Outside Safely
An unwarranted federal assault on a suburban resident exposes how global color prejudice and visual profiling continue to compromise civil liberties and turn public spaces unsafe for people of color. A simple walk to the neighbourhood chemist on a Sunday morning turned into a scene of physical trauma when a resident in Evanston, Illinois, was…
Independence: PDP Urges Hope Amid Hardship at 66
Nigeria’s main opposition party marked the country’s 66th Independence anniversary on Thursday, 1 October 2026, by telling a destitute public that collective hope must remain stronger than current economic misery. Party spokesman Jungudo Mohammed released the holiday statement in Abuja, conceding that the republic sits far below its potential while urging citizens to reject despair…
Minimum Wage Has Been Wiped Out by Inflation – NLCÂ
The Nigeria Labour Congress warned on Thursday, 1 October 2026, that runaway inflation has completely wiped out the purchasing power of the statutory 70,000 naira national minimum wage. Speaking in Abuja as the country marked its sixty-sixth year of independence, labour president Joe Ajaero accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of abandoning breadwinners to cruel market…
N5m Deposit Cover Shields 98% of Depositors-NDIC
Nigeria has expanded its financial safety net to shield ninety-eight per cent of bank depositors from catastrophic bank collapses, Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation Managing Director Thompson Oludare Sunday announced in Abuja on Thursday, 1 October 2026. The corporation raised its maximum insurance cover tenfold from 500,000 naira to five million naira for commercial bank customers…
Customs Yields Intercepted Cash Mule to EFCC
Nigeria Customs Service officers at Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport arrested a male traveller named Adam Musa Adam after discovering 265,000 dollars in undeclared physical greenbacks hidden inside his luggage . The passenger landed in Kano aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight from New Delhi before border inspectors uncovered the hidden foreign currency during routine arrival…
Opposition Parties Push for Single 2027 Candidate
Nigeria’s fractious opposition parties have opened high-stakes negotiations to adopt a single consensus candidate to challenge President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election. Chieftains across the Peoples Democratic Party, the Labour Party, and the New Nigeria Peoples Party met in Abuja on Wednesday under the umbrella of the G-100 opposition summit to hammer out…