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Nearly nine years after Nigeria opened its first mass trial of Boko Haram suspects inside a remote military base in Niger State, the Federal Government has put a fresh figure to the scale of that effort: 1,721 convictions for terrorism and related offences, with more than half of them secured in a single year….
Desperation born of empty granaries is quietly filling the ranks of armed groups across northern Nigeria, with the United Nations warning that hungry residents are joining bandits and insurgents simply to eat. The disclosure, made by the World Food Programme on Thursday, paints the clearest picture yet of how deprivation and violence now feed…
India has ordered Meta to suspend the rollout of WhatsApp’s new username feature within its borders, warning that the privacy tool could deepen a cybercrime crisis that already costs citizens billions of dollars each year. The directive came from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in a notice sent to WhatsApp on Wednesday,…
The familiar khaki that has clothed generations of Nigerian graduates on national service is set for retirement, as the Federal Government moves to replace it with locally produced Adire fabric under the most far-reaching reform of the National Youth Service Corps since the scheme was created in 1973. The Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele…
The Federal High Court in Abuja has affirmed Senator David Mark’s leadership of the African Democratic Congress, dismissing a suit by Rep Leke Abejide that sought to strip Mark and Rauf Aregbesola of their positions as national chairman and national secretary of the party. Delivering judgment on Thursday, July 2, 2026, Justice Musa Liman…
Peter Obi’s N8 billion defamation suit against his former campaign spokesperson, Kenneth Okonkwo, can now proceed after an Anambra State High Court sitting in Onitsha granted the Nigeria Democratic Congress presidential candidate leave to serve court processes on the actor turned politician through substituted means. Justice D.A. Onyefulu gave the order on Tuesday, June…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has appointed Nollywood actor and lawyer Kenneth Okonkwo as his spokesperson, ending weeks of open friction that followed the African Democratic Congress chieftain’s public rejection of the party’s vice presidential choice for the 2027 general election. Okonkwo announced the appointment in a statement posted on his official X page…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has taken the immediate past Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Geoffrey Uchechukwu Nnaji, into custody over allegations that he forged a university degree and submitted a false National Youth Service Corps discharge certificate during his ministerial screening in 2023. The former minister was arrested…
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress for the 2027 election, has laid out a governance blueprint built around education, healthcare, and mass industrialisation, promising to place human capital development at the centre of any administration he leads. In a statement issued on Wednesday to mark the new month, Obi framed his…
The Nigerian Air Force has released the lists of candidates shortlisted for interview into Junior Secondary School 1 of the Air Force Military School, the Air Force Girls’ Military School, Jos, and other Air Force Secondary Schools for the 2026/2027 academic session, opening the next stage of one of the country’s most competitive secondary admission…
