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Armed bandits abducted a local health practitioner and his wife during an early morning raid in Kogi State. The gunmen attacked the Okebukun area of Iluke town in Kabba-Bunu Local Government Area around 1:00 am on Thursday. Known locally as “Dr Ebi,” the victim runs a clinic that serves the agrarian settlement. The attackers forced…
The National Youth Service Corps has partnered with the National Identity Management Commission to streamline biometric verification for prospective corps members nationwide. This collaboration aims to eliminate the frequent database bottlenecks that delay the registration of university and polytechnic graduates. Under the new arrangement, the youth scheme will directly use the national identity database to…
A joint team of security operatives has rescued Mrs Grace Ogunleye, the Vice Chairman of Ilejemeje Local Government Area, from her abductors. Gunmen intercepted her on Wednesday along the Ipere-Iludun Ekiti Road, abandoning her vehicle by the roadside. Security forces, tracking her captors through the forests, freed her less than twenty-four hours after the assault….
A Federal High Court in Calabar has thrown out a fundamental rights enforcement suit brought by alleged illegal medicine dealers against the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, delivering a significant legal victory to the two regulatory and security agencies. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of Federal High Court 1,…
President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, has declared that Nigerians possess a constitutionally guaranteed right to defend themselves against violent attackers, including through the use of lethal weapons, even as he maintained that the federal government remains committed to tackling the country’s worsening insecurity crisis. Bwala made the remarks during…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has congratulated Arsenal Football Club on winning the English Premier League title, using the occasion to draw deliberate parallels between the club’s transformation and his long-standing economic and political vision for Nigeria. In a statement issued on Wednesday through his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku described…
The Nigerian Defence Academy has announced that its screening test for the 78 Regular Course will be conducted simultaneously across all states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory on Saturday, 13 June 2026. The announcement was made in a statement published on the academy’s official X handle on Tuesday and signed by…
The Australian state of Tasmania has issued a formal parliamentary apology after an investigation confirmed that human body parts removed during autopsies were stored and displayed at a university museum for decades without the knowledge or consent of grieving families. Health Minister Bridget Archer delivered the apology in parliament last Tuesday, with several affected…
The government of Togo has announced the removal of visa requirements for nationals of all African countries travelling into the country for short stays, placing the West African nation among a growing list of African states actively dismantling entry barriers across the continent. The announcement was made on Tuesday in a statement issued by Togo’s…
Controversial Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has drawn fierce public condemnation after comments he made during a television interview appeared to frame ransom payments as a financial lifeline for armed groups currently under pressure from Nigerian security forces. In remarks aired on AIT News, Gumi was quoted as saying that criminals involved in banditry…
