The Department of State Services has issued an intelligence alert warning that Boko Haram terrorists are planning major coordinated attacks in Michika and Askira Uba local government areas of Adamawa and Borno states following the reported collapse of a ceasefire agreement with the state governments.
Findings by The PUNCH reveal that 78 federal ministries, departments and agencies quietly set aside nearly N400 billion in the 2026 budget for community halls, mosques, traditional rulers’ palaces, grain supply, tricycles and other projects widely criticised as having no connection to the agencies’ core mandates or Nigeria’s most pressing developmental priorities.
A House of Representatives panel investigating the phantom Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council has confirmed that the signature purportedly used by Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila to appoint Adeniyi Adeyemi as Director-General is distinctly different from nine other authenticated official signatures from the same office — as it also emerged that Adeyemi allegedly intercepted a government letter that could have exposed the entire fraud.
Families of military personnel detained over an alleged coup plot against President Bola Tinubu have accused Defence Intelligence Agency operatives of hacking into detainees’ phones, systematically draining bank accounts — including one reduced from N5.2 million to N5,000 — and obtaining loans in their names without authorisation.
The Senate has launched a 23-day investigation into Nigeria’s oil and gas industry, summoning NNPCL, CBN and major oil firms
Leicester Crown Court has sentenced Richile Vangu to 11 years and Nigerian student Oluwatobiloba Akinrinola to seven years for robbing partygoers at knifepoint and forcing them to perform TikTok dances at a Leicestershire gathering in November 2025.
Oko Polytechnic management has denied that any student died or was trapped in a collapsed hostel building, saying the privately
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, plans to donate one-third of his wealth to charity as part of his succession plan, according to his daughter, Halima Dangote.
President Bola Tinubu has declined to personally receive a special delegation from South African President Cyril Ramaphosa led by International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola, redirecting the envoys to the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs amid growing tensions over xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa.
Despite the APC’s claim of meeting INEC’s July 11 deadline for uploading National Assembly candidates, multiple sources at the commission have revealed that no political party, including the ruling party, actually met the original deadline before it was extended to July 14.
