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Alleged Ransom Payment: FG Encouraging Criminality –PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government is encouraging criminality by allegedly paying ransom to terrorists for release of kidnapped victims . PDP in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary Ini Emembong, described as deeply troubling, the recent reports in international and local media platforms that the...
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Akpe Replaces Ewhrudjakpo As Bayelsa Deputy Gov

Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri yesterday appointed Peter Akpe as the new Deputy Governor. The position became vacant following the death of Deputy Governor Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo in December 2025. Until his new appointment, the provincial pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Province One, Akpe was Diri’s Chief of Staff. The House of Assembly...
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Advertising Industry Reforms Yielding Positive Results –ARCON

Far from the picture of regulatory overreach and investor flight painted in ADVAN’s open letter to President Bola Tinubu recently, Nigeria’s advertising industry has been growing, and the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) has the independent research to prove it. In a statement issued recently, ARCON’s Director-General, Dr. Olalekan Fadolapo, pushed back against the...
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MMIA Fire Destroyed NiMET Equipment, Says Keyamo

The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development Festus Keyamo yesterday confirmed that Monday’s fire at the Murtala Muhammed International Lagos Terminal 1 destroyed the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMET)’s weather reading equipment. Speaking during an inspection of the burnt terminal, he said the agency’s operational offices and meteorological instruments located on the upper floors of the...
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Nigeria’s Insecurity A Public Safety Crisis, Not Terrorism

Former Commandant of the Nigerian Army Training and Doctrine Command, Retired Major General Ishola Williams, has described Nigeria’s worsening insecurity as a public safety crisis driven by governance failures, systemic corruption, and intelligence breakdown. He said contrary to speculations, the worsening insecurity was not about terrorism or external aggression, but fundamentally that of governance failure....
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Why I Joined ADC, By Olumide Akpata

The candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2024 Edo State governorship election Olumide Akpata yesterday dumped joined the African Democratic Congress (ADC)in Benin. The former Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) President was received by party chiefs, including Chief John OdigieOyegun, Peter Obi, Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor, Roland Owie and Murphy Omoruyi. Akpata, who was handed...
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Senate Criticises FG’s Neglect Of Border Communities

The Senate yesterday decried a lack of infrastructure and basic social amenities such as schools, electricity and water for residents of the country’s border communities. According to the Committee on State and Local Government Affairs, the neglect has forced some residents to cross into neighbouring countries in search of potable water, schools, and healthcare services....
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Senate Backs SEDC On N140bn 2026 Budget Proposal

The Senate, on Tuesday, gave its full support to the proposed ₦140 billion 2026 budget of the South East Development Commission (SEDC). The Senate Committee on South East Development Commission Chaired by Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, expressed the support when the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of SEDC, Mr. Mark Okoye, in company with his Management...
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Cuba Accuses U.S. Of Economic Asphyxiation

The Republic of Cuba has accused the United States of pursuing a “deliberate asphyxiation policy” aimed at forcing its government to its knees, as Nigerian labour leaders and political figures rallied behind renewed African pressure to end the decades-long blockade. Speaking in Abuja at the Conference of the Nigeria Movement of Solidarity with Cuba (NMSC),...
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