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Defence correspondents flown into Maiduguri this week to sit inside cockpits, night patrols and operations rooms of the Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai have become the first practical test of a Federal Government pledge made barely five weeks ago, when the Ministry of Defence told the Nigeria Union of Journalists that reporters would…
Petroleum marketers returned to naira transactions at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery on Wednesday after a week of dollar denominated pricing that unsettled Nigeria’s downstream market, but the relief arrived with a higher bill, as the refinery lifted its ex depot petrol price by N140 per litre. A notice issued by the refinery’s commercial department,…
Ninety one health workers were abducted and 15 others killed across 101 separate incidents of violence against healthcare in Nigeria between 2023 and 2025, according to conflict monitoring data compiled by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition, laying bare the scale at which the country’s already fragile medical workforce is being drawn into…
Africa’s champion women’s team will leave Morocco next month with double the cheque their predecessors collected a year ago, after the Confederation of African Football raised the winners’ purse for the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations from $1 million to $2 million, the second such increase inside twelve months and the third in three years….
President Donald Trump has approved a sweeping nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia that could eventually hand the kingdom the ability to enrich uranium on its own soil, a decision landing at the most volatile moment in Gulf security in years and one that has already drawn resistance from lawmakers in Washington and officials…
Nigeria has once again emerged as Africa’s most populous nation, with its population estimated at 242.4 million in 2026, a figure that cements its demographic dominance on the continent even as the country marks nearly two decades without an official headcount. The estimate, published by Worldometer and drawn from the United Nations Population Division’s…
Publishers and authors preparing to enter Nigeria’s new textbook evaluation regime have been handed a measure of relief, after the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council reduced the cost of assessing and ranking school textbooks and ordered refunds for firms that already paid the higher rates. The decision, announced in a statement signed by…
The Borno, Yobe and Adamawa governments have activated response strategies and evacuation plans to mitigate the effects of impending floods, following predictions by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) and the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency about heavy rains in parts of the states. In Borno State, the government has constituted a flood preparedness committee comprising…
The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT), Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, has declared that the party has moved beyond the period of uncertainty caused by prolonged litigation and is now focused on rebuilding ahead of the 2027 general elections. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Ohuabunwa expressed confidence that the…
A lighthearted exchange on the fringes of the Wimbledon Championships has pulled Ola Aina back into transfer conversation, after the Nottingham Forest defender waved away the idea of a move to Arsenal with a one line dismissal that has since spread widely online. Approached by a Nigerian supporter working at the All England…
