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The Federal Government will repatriate 271 Nigerian nationals from South Africa today following a sharp escalation in anti-immigrant hostility. An Air Peace aircraft departed Abuja on Monday afternoon to facilitate the emergency airlift. The return flight will land at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Tuesday morning. This evacuation comes amid a looming…
The Federal Ministry of Works has announced a ban on commercial motorcycles, commonly known as okada, and tricycles, popularly called keke marwa, on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. The restriction, which takes effect this week, was announced in a statement on Sunday by the Federal Controller of Works in Lagos State, Mr Olufemi Dare. Mr…
A fresh group of top Islamic State West Africa Province commanders has surrendered to troops of the Joint Task Force North East, Operation HADIN KAI, in the latest sign that sustained military pressure is fracturing the insurgent group’s leadership across Borno State and the wider Lake Chad Basin. The Acting Media Information Officer of the…
An improvised explosive device detonated in Sokoto State, killing one person and injuring several others. The blast ripped through a local community, marking a dangerous shift in regional violence. Security agencies rushed to cordon off the area after the detonation. First responders evacuated the wounded to a nearby specialist hospital for urgent treatment. Bomb disposal…
A Boko Haram member who travelled abroad for weapons training before joining the deadly 2015 assault on Maiduguri has been sentenced to death by hanging, in the latest in a string of terrorism convictions handed down by the Federal High Court this year. Justice James Omotosho delivered the judgment in Abuja on Friday, convicting…
Armed bandits have razed a public school in Niger State shortly after extorting a ten-million-naira levy from the local host community. The incident occurred in the volatile Shiroro local government area on Wednesday night, following weeks of intense threats. Local community leaders confirmed they painfully raised the exorbitant protection fee across farming households to secure…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has seized more than 9.4 tonnes of illicit drugs and arrested 1,587 suspects in Plateau State over the past year. State Commander Anthony Gotar announced the massive haul during a press briefing in Jos on Thursday to mark the United Nations International Day against substance abuse. Operatives confiscated exactly…
Delta State Government has dismissed as false the reports circulating on several online platforms claiming that former governor Emmanuel Uduaghan has died, describing the claim as cruel and irresponsible. The clarification followed reports that surfaced late Wednesday night alleging that the two-term former governor had passed on, a claim that quickly spread across social…
The Federal Government has directed banks and other regulated businesses to freeze the assets of suspected terrorism financiers, throwing Nigeria’s weight behind fresh United States sanctions on a Lagos-based ISIS facilitator and three bureaux de change. The Nigerian Sanctions Committee issued the directive on Tuesday, instructing financial institutions and designated non-financial businesses and professions…
Nyesom Wike has told the Peoples Democratic Party to abandon any hope of returning to office through entitlement, declaring at the party’s 109th National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja on Wednesday that political power is seized through struggle rather than handed over. Addressing party faithful, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and PDP…
