The National grid today recorded its second collapse in 2026. As of the time of filing this report, data showed zero megawatts of power supply to the 11 electricity distribution companies. The grid had recorded its first collapse in the year last Friday, barely weeks after a similar incident on December 29, 2025, which had […]
•Armed Nigerian soldiers No fewer than 16 military officers indicted for plotting to overthrow President Bola Tinubu are facing capital punishment ranging from life imprisonment to death penalty. This is coming after the military high command admitted that the officers who have been in detention since October 2025 were found guilty of the offe...
•Tinubu and Nigerian soldiers The military has submitted to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the report of its investigation into what it tagged “indiscipline and breach of service regulations” by the 16 detained officers whom reports had alleged were involved in coup plot, Daily Trust has learnt. Credible security and presidency sources confirmed...
•Tinubu A coalition of Yoruba and Igbo self-determination groups, under the banner of the ‘Coalition to De-amalgamate Nigeria for Security’ (CODES), has declared a formal alliance aimed at the peaceful de-amalgamation of Nigeria, arguing that the country’s worsening insecurity, deepening mistrust and unresolved historical grievances make conti...
•Nigerians repatriated from UAE arrive at the MMIA in Lagos in 2020 No fewer than 13,635 stranded Nigerians were repatriated from 10 countries over three years. Data obtained from media reports and the official websites of the International Organisation for Migration, the National Emergency Management Agency and the Nigerians in Diaspora Commi...
•Youth Corps members Thousands of prospective corps members and their families are apprehensive as the 2026 Batch A (Stream 1) orientation exercise of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) commences across the country, particularly in states plagued by bandit attacks, kidnappings, and bomb scares. From Zamfara to Kaduna, Borno, Yobe, Plateau...
•House of Representatives The Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives has confirmed that some of Nigeria’s recently gazetted tax laws were illegally altered after being passed by the National Assembly and assented to by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This was disclosed in an interim report of the Minority Caucus Ad-hoc Committee on Tax L...
The National Power Grid has recorded its first collapse in 2026 today, barely weeks after a similar incident on December 29, 2025, which had caused widespread power outages across the country. Grid collapses have been attributed to a combination of technical faults, inadequate maintenance of transmission lines, and fluctuations in generation c...
•Scene of the accident One person has died following multiple crashes on the Otedola Bridge, Lagos, in the early hours of today, leading to a long-stretched gridlock that has left commuters and motorists grounded. The accident, which happened inward Secretariat along the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway, left thousands of people stranded on the ever-bu...
•American flag The United States has raised serious concerns over Nigeria’s ability to protect Christian communities following the abduction of 177 worshippers in Kaduna State, as bandits were yesterday sighted moving freely through forest corridors with their captives, days after storming churches without resistance. On Sunday, gunmen attacke...
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