Security agencies in Kwara State have announced a successful military operation along Babanla Road and a temporary restriction on cattle transactions at the popular Kwara Ajasepo (Kaara) Market, the Joint Security Watch Kwara South said on Wednesday. According to the Joint Security Watch, troops of the Nigerian Army repelled an attempt by suspected bandits to…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will deploy about 1.4 million ad hoc personnel across more than 176,000 polling units nationwide for the 2027 general elections. INEC Chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, disclosed this in Abuja when he received a Pre-Election Assessment Mission delegation from the International Republican Institute (IRI), led by former United…
Operatives of the Kebbi State Police Command have arrested a 19-year-old woman, Khadija Ibrahim, for allegedly stealing a newborn baby in Zuru LGA to pass off as her own. The suspect, a resident of Rikoto in Zuru Local Government Area, was apprehended on August 14, 2026, following a targeted police investigation. According to Police Public…
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Lagos Operations Office, in collaboration with the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), has received 178 Nigerian returnees from Tripoli, Libya. The returnees arrived at about 4 p.m. on Monday, August 10, aboard an Air Buraq Airlines flight that landed at the Cargo Terminal of…
Scores of passengers were stranded at the Lagos and Abuja airports on Tuesday following the picketing of domestic airline operators by aviation unions over the alleged non-remittance of the statutory five per cent Ticket Sales Charge (TSC) and the denial of workers’ rights to unionise. The industrial action was led by the Air Transport Services…
The Abia State Police Command has arrested a woman, identified as Sarah Innocent, for allegedly stabbing her husband, Innocent Nwaoji, to death in Ohuru Isimiri Village, Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State. According to reports, the couple got married in December 2025. In a statement issued by the spokesperson of the command, Mrs Maureen…
The Kebbi State Police Command announced on Monday that Justice Faruk Hassan Bunza, a High Court judge abducted from his residence in Bunza Local Government Area last week, has been released. SP Bashir Usman, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, confirmed the development in a statement issued in Birnin Kebbi, noting that the release was verified…
The Nigeria Police Force has declined to release Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, the purported Director-General of the controversial Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC), to a House of Representatives ad hoc committee without a court order authorising his release. Inspector-General of Police Olatunji Disu made the position known on Wednesday during a resumed hearing by the…
Search and rescue operations are ongoing after a boat carrying more than 30 passengers reportedly capsised in Malamawar Yan Dutse Community, Ringim Local Government Area of Jigawa State. The Director of Planning at the Jigawa State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) confirmed the incident to journalists in Dutse. He said the boat was conveying mostly female…
The Federal Government has suspended the proposed review of registration fees for the 2027 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and the National Examinations Council (NECO) Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE). The Federal Ministry of Education said that the letter conveying the proposed fee adjustment, dated 18 June 2026, has been withdrawn to allow…
