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Nearly four years after two young Nigerians were gunned down at a nightclub in Vaughan, Ontario, a Canadian court has handed their killer a life sentence, drawing commendation from the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, which described the verdict as a measure of justice long awaited by two grieving families. The Ontario Court of Justice…
The News Agency of Nigeria has entered a partnership to compile a single reference document profiling candidates for the 2027 general elections, in a move that lands just as the official race for tickets enters its decisive phase. NAN signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Novel Communication Limited in Abuja to produce a political…
Elon Musk has lost the trillionaire status he held for barely two weeks, after a sweeping selloff in technology stocks erased hundreds of billions from his fortune and dragged his net worth back below the $1 trillion mark. The world’s richest person was valued at about $957.1 billion as of June 23, 2026, according…
Africa’s largest electrification drive has crossed a defining threshold, with the World Bank Group and the African Development Bank announcing that their joint Mission 300 initiative has connected more than 50 million people to electricity across 40 countries, even as Nigeria, home to the world’s biggest power access deficit, accounts for over 4.5 million…
A member of the United States Congress, Riley Moore, has welcomed the Nigerian Senate’s passage of the constitutional amendment establishing state police, describing the reform as a tool that would help states protect citizens, particularly Christians he says face persecution. Moore, who represents West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives,…
Nigeria moved closer than at any point in its democratic history to dismantling its single, centrally controlled police structure on Wednesday, after the Senate passed a constitutional amendment bill authorising state-controlled police services across the federation. The passage shifts the decades-long debate to the 36 state Houses of Assembly, where at least 24 must…
The Federal Government has announced the discovery of a world-class polymetallic mineral province in Kaduna State, containing platinum group metals, gold, nickel, copper, lithium, and rare earth elements, in a development positioned to deepen Nigeria’s drive to diversify its economy away from crude oil. Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake, disclosed the…
The Senate on Wednesday passed a constitutional amendment bill clearing the way for the establishment of state police services across Nigeria, marking one of the most consequential security reforms in the country’s history and a decisive break from a policing structure controlled from Abuja since independence. The bill, titled “A Bill for an Act…
The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, has said he does not personally see the level of hunger frequently described in public discussions, defending the administration’s economic record even as official data points to deepening hardship across the country. Speaking on Arise Television on Tuesday, June 23, 2026,…
A fresh dispute over Nigeria’s troubled electricity sector has opened between the Presidency and the opposition, after Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, dismissed a campaign pledge by Peter Obi to raise power generation and distribution by at least 10,000 megawatts within four years. Onanuga criticised the recent promise by…
