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The Nigerian Navy has intercepted 15,000 litres of illegally refined petroleum and rescued a kidnapped man during a sweep of the Rivers State waterways. Personnel from Forward Operating Base Bonny recovered Mr Benedict Eze at Coconut Jetty after his captors abandoned him under the pressure of naval intelligence. Mr Eze had been abducted from the…
The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced the acquisition and planned launch of two earth-monitoring satellites, Sat 2A and Sat 2B, scheduled for 2028 and 2029. President Bola Tinubu approved the project to bolster national security and provide real-time intelligence along the country’s borders. Dr Bosun Tijani, Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, confirmed…
Russia has launched its largest evacuation of personnel from Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant after a US-Israeli projectile struck near the facility on Saturday morning. The Russian state nuclear agency, Rosatom, moved 198 workers by bus toward the Iranian-Armenian border just 20 minutes after the explosion. This marks the third withdrawal of Russian staff from…
A false press release claiming the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination had been postponed is circulating online, and the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has moved swiftly to shut it down, warning over two million candidates not to be misled. In a statement issued on Saturday, the board described the circulating notice as malicious and…
A Russian drone strike on a busy market in Nikopol killed five people and injured at least 19 others on Saturday morning. The attack occurred at approximately 09:50 local time, shredding retail kiosks and scattering food and glass across the town’s commercial centre. Nikopol, which sits directly across the Dnipro river from Russian-occupied territory, has…
The All Progressives Grand Alliance has formally requested the Nigerian Senate to declare the legislative seat of Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, representing Abia South, vacant, citing his defection from the party to the African Democratic Congress as a constitutional breach and a betrayal of the mandate given to him by his constituents. The demand was…
Manchester City humiliated Liverpool with a 4-0 victory at the Etihad Stadium to secure a place in the FA Cup semifinals. Erling Haaland spearheaded the assault with a clinical hat-trick, while Antoine Semenyo added a fourth to dismantle Arne Slot’s side. The result marks City’s eighth consecutive appearance in the competition’s final four. For Liverpool,…
Three young men were killed and one injured on Good Friday after suspected armed assailants ambushed a group of youths returning home from a mining site in Nyamgo Gyel, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State, in an attack that has left the community in grief and renewed alarm over the state’s worsening…
The grief of Mrs Favour Ayuba has taken a form that has gripped Nigeria. Days after suspected gunmen killed her son, Promise Gideon Ayuba, in the Palm Sunday terror attack that tore through the Angwan Rukuba area of Jos North Local Government Area, the bereaved mother stood over his coffin, drew a cutlass wrapped…
A brief airport stopover by President Bola Tinubu in Jos has handed Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, a fresh political opening to revisit one of the administration’s most consequential campaign promises and to argue, pointedly, that the president has failed on his own terms. In a post on his verified X account…
