The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has foiled a major international drug operation,seizing cocaine linked to a cartel with ties to Brazil. The bust underscores Nigeria’s ongoing role as a keynode in the global narcotics trade. NDLEA operatives dismantled an international organized criminal group operating across Nigeria, theUnited Kingdom, Brazil, Australia, and the UAE….
The Niger State Government has publicly criticized the management of St. Mary’s Catholic Primary andSecondary School in Papiri (Agwara Local Government Area) following a mass abduction of students,saying the school ignored a security directive issued after intelligence warned of elevated threats. According to a statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Abubakar Usman, the…
The federal high court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, sentenced separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu to life in prison after convicting him on all seven terrorism-related charges at the end of a decade-long trial that has inflamed tensions in the country’s southeast. The judge, Justice James Omotosho, held that the prosecution was able to establish the…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has expressed deep sorrow at the death of Olusegun “Segun” AwolowoJr., grandson of the late Nigerian statesman Chief Obafemi Awolowo, describing his passing as a “tragicloss” for both the Awolowo family and the country. In a statement, Tinubu praised Segun for embodying the “Awolowo pedigree” — in his character,integrity, and dedication…
U.S. Congresswoman Sara Jacobs, a Democrat from California’s 51st District and ranking member of theHouse Foreign Affairs Committee’s Africa Subcommittee, has sharply condemned former PresidentDonald Trump’s threat of military intervention in Nigeria, calling it “reckless” and legally baseless. At a congressional hearing, Jacobs warned that framing Nigeria’s violence purely as a religious conflictdistorts the country’s…
October as we know is breast cancer awareness month .There’s a good chance that we all know one person who has been personally affected by breast cancerand this is why it is important we talk about it. What exactly is breast cancer?? Breast cancer is a disease in which the breast cells become abnormal ,…
The Senate on Thursday confirmed the appointment of Professor Joash Amupitan as the new Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), following an exhaustive screening session that lasted about three hours and featured probing questions from lawmakers across party lines. Amupitan, a distinguished legal scholar and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), pledged sweeping institutional…
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has announced that Nigeria’s headline inflation rate eased to 18.02 per cent in September 2025, compared to 20.12 per cent recorded in August, representing a decline of 2.1 percentage points. According to the NBS’s latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, released on Wednesday, the new data reflects the outcome…
Twenty-four hours after Enugu State Governor Peter Mbah joined the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, also resigned from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) along with his entire cabinet, but remained silent on his next move. Equally yesterday, business magnet and former Senator for Bayelsa East, Ben Bruce, dumped PDP and…
In what seems to be a major shake up in the requirements for admission into tertiary institutions, the Nigerian senior secondary school students in arts and humanities will no longer be required to present a credit in mathematics in their Senior School Certificate Examination, organised by the West African Examination Council and National Examination Council,…
