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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…
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 United States government has placed a high-profile Nigerian citizen and a network of affiliated businesses on its global terrorism blacklist. The US Department of the Treasury announced the sanctions on Tuesday through its Office of Foreign Assets Control. Federal investigators uncovered evidence linking the individual directly to illicit financial networks that funnel money to…
The federal government has issued fresh refined product import permits to independent marketers for the third quarter of 2026. The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority approved the licenses to prevent potential domestic fuel shortages between July and September. The tactical intervention follows a noticeable decline in national fuel stock levels over the past…
A continuous wave of armed banditry and ransom kidnappings has forced the total abandonment of Owa-Onire town in the Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. Police tactical units, including the Mobile Police Force and specialized anti-kidnapping squads, discovered the empty settlement during a sweeping forest clearance operation. Heavily armed patrols moved through deserted residential…
Former Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke accused British law enforcement authorities of destroying her life, career, and integrity through a failed corruption prosecution spanning more than a decade. The former minister made the remarks during an interview with the BBC following her full acquittal by a jury at Southwark Crown Court in London. A British jury…
