The Kogi State Government has confirmed the safe rescue of four persons, including a school principal, a NECO official and two students, kidnapped during an attack on an examination centre in Olowa, Dekina Local Government Area.
The US House of Representatives has adopted an amendment to withhold all US assistance to Nigeria until the government meets
Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer Aloy Ejimakor has declared that the persistently low enlistment of South-East youths into the Nigerian Army reflects deep institutional distrust rooted in historical and ongoing military action against Ndigbo — not a lack of patriotism or courage — directly responding to Army Chief Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu’s public lament over the trend.
An FCT High Court in Apo has granted the final forfeiture of jewellery worth over ₦4.6 billion, eleven exotic cars valued at ₦4.293 billion, $50,000 and ₦30 million in cash linked to businesswoman Aisha Achimugu to the Federal Government, in the latest legal blow to the Oceangate Engineering founder already facing money laundering allegations.
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the final forfeiture of 48 properties linked to former Attorney-General of the Federation Abubakar Malami to the Federal Government, after the EFCC successfully established the assets were reasonably suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities and Malami’s camp failed to prove legitimate acquisition.
As Argentina advanced to the World Cup final, a wave of viral conspiracy theories accusing FIFA of favouring Lionel Messi has exploded across social media — fuelled by controversial refereeing decisions in Argentina’s match against Egypt and AI-generated memes depicting Messi as “FIFA’s princess.”
Former DSS Assistant Director-General Mohammed Ngoshe has revealed that security forces broke the Oriire kidnappers by surrounding their hideout, cutting off food and weapons supplies, neutralising their informants and showing them video evidence of their encirclement — forcing the terrorists to release the hostages after realising annihilation was imminent.
The Senate has revealed the identities of three security personnel — Lieutenant F.A. Isaac of the Nigerian Army, Private Silas Musa of the 81 Battalion and Sergeant Abena John Jerome of the Nigeria Police Force — who paid the ultimate price during the military operation that rescued abducted pupils and teachers from terrorists in Oyo State’s Oriire Local Government Area.
Rev. Benjamin Madu, a Nigerian Catholic priest of the Diocese of Abakaliki serving in Massachusetts, has died under circumstances suggesting suicide just weeks before his compulsory return to Nigeria following the expiration of his religious worker visa — days before what would have been the 25th anniversary of his ordination.
There MUST be a coroner’s inquest into the death of Mary Habila at the residence of Tinubu’s Minister of Works,
