SERAP Faults Data Bill, Warns Against Social Media Crackdown

SERAP Demands Probe into N2.9bn Agency Fraud

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked President Bola Tinubu to investigate the suspected diversion of ₦2.9 billion at two federal agencies. The demand targets the Nigerian Communications Satellite Ltd (NIGCOMSAT) and the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA). SERAP cited findings from a 2025 Auditor-General report detailing systemic financial mismanagement. The group gave…

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Gunmen Kill Imo Monarch and Entourage in Brutal Ambush

Gunmen Kill Imo Monarch and Entourage in Brutal Ambush

Unidentified gunmen have murdered Eze Paulinus Ekwueme, the traditional ruler of Ochia Autonomous Community, and five others in a grisly attack in Imo State. The assailants intercepted the monarch’s entourage on Friday evening along the Asaa/Awara road in the Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area. After shooting the victims, the attackers set their corpses ablaze. This act…

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Melania Trump Denies Epstein Links

  Few expected it. None were warned. Yet on Thursday afternoon, United States First Lady Melania Trump stepped before cameras in the Grand Foyer of the White House and delivered what observers described as one of the most extraordinary interventions by a sitting first lady in recent American political history, a five-minute, on-camera statement categorically…

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US Plans Automatic Military Enrollment

  The United States is preparing to overhaul its military conscription infrastructure through a fundamental shift from voluntary to automatic enrollment, a change that would eliminate the decades-old requirement for young men to self-register with federal authorities. The proposed regulatory modification, submitted for executive review in late March, carries significant implications for civil-military relations and…

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Seven Northern States Face Weeks of Scheduled Blackouts

Seven Northern States Face Weeks of Scheduled Blackouts

Seven northern states will experience persistent power disruptions until late May as the Nigerian Independent System Operator begins a major grid modernisation project. Residents in Plateau, Gombe, Bauchi, Borno, Adamawa, Taraba, and Yobe states face weekly outages on the Jos–Gombe 330kV transmission line starting April 9. The agency confirmed that the blackouts will occur every…

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UK Leads International Push to End Hormuz Blockade

  British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will travel to the Gulf region on Wednesday for high-level consultations aimed at consolidating a fragile ceasefire in the Middle East and securing the strategic Strait of Hormuz, Downing Street announced. The diplomatic mission follows the overnight confirmation of a ceasefire agreement in the prolonged conflict that has destabilised…

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