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Peter Obi marked World Food Day on Friday by demanding that Nigeria declare hunger an immediate national emergency, warning that thirty-six million citizens face acute starvation as double-digit food inflation and rampant rural violence strip kitchen tables bare across all thirty-six states of the federation. The Nigeria Democratic Congress presidential candidate cited grim projections from…
A high-pressure gas pipeline blew apart in the Aleto community within Rivers State on Thursday, leaving several residents injured and shattering commercial properties across the Eleme industrial corridor. The state oil firm, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, confirmed the disaster on Friday after emergency crews shut isolation valves along the damaged network to cut off…
Nigeria must immediately halt costly public rehabilitation projects and sell controlling stakes in its broken state-owned refineries to private operators, the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers declared on Saturday. Society president Bayo Olarewaju-Alo warned that pouring more public funds into state refiners merely delays inevitable operational collapse while burning scarce treasury reserves. State maintenance contracts…
Nigeria’s food and drug safety watchdog seized and burnt counterfeit consumer goods worth more than N5.3bn across three major commercial centres in seven days. Deputy Director Christiana Obiazikwor confirmed that coordinated raids hit illicit trading hubs and production dens across Lagos, Aba, and Port Harcourt. Dirty syndicates poison markets without remorse. Operatives dismantled over twenty…
Detectives in Ibadan recovered a one-month-old girl on Saturday after her mother and a private clinic operator allegedly sold the newborn for two million naira in the Ido council area of Oyo State. Command spokesman Olayinka Ayanlade confirmed the recovery following a distress report lodged on Thursday evening by the child’s grandmother, Mary Amos, who…
Millions of Nigerian households marked World Food Day on Friday by cutting daily meals as rocketing staple prices outpace family earnings across the country. Official data and field reports show that macroeconomic shocks, currency devaluations, and soaring diesel costs have pushed basic staples far beyond the reach of ordinary wage earners. Empty pockets empty dinner…
Russian air strikes killed at least eight people and wounded nearly sixty others across Ukrainian cities on Saturday morning during an overnight bombardment involving 332 drones and cruise missiles. Moscow mounts massive aerial raids to exhaust Ukraine’s western-supplied air defence batteries before winter temperatures freeze the eastern front. Depleted air defences kill civilians quickly. Ukrainian…
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps declared the Strait of Hormuz closed on Saturday after sea strikes hit three commercial oil tankers navigating the strategic chokepoint. The naval arm of the Guards singled out a vessel carrying two million barrels of crude oil, claiming the ship entered unauthorised waters without clearance from Iranian maritime controllers. Chokepoints…
Mount Zion’s faith-based remake Agbara Nla: The Return has grossed over N307.2m at the Nigerian box office, ranking it as the fourth highest-earning domestic film of 2026. The theatrical release on October 1 marked a thirty-three-year leap from the VHS tapes that built the original television drama into a household name across southern Nigeria. Nostalgia…
Ekiti State Chief Judge Lekan Ogunmoye administered the oath of office to Governor Biodun Oyebanji and Deputy Governor Monisade Afuye on Friday at the Ekiti Parapo Pavilion in Ado-Ekiti. The swearing-in ceremony seals their four-year extension in power after an electoral sweep on June 20, 2026, where the ruling party polled 319,224 votes. Oyebanji becomes…