•A stage collapse There was apprehension in Osun State today following the sudden collapse of a podium where guests, including Governor Ademola Adeleke, were seated at a rally held in Ijebu-Jesa. In a 30-second video obtained by our correspondent, Adeleke, his deputy, Kola Adewusi, the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Adewale Egbedun, a...
A group of young Nigerians today staged a protest at the National Assembly, urging the federal government to take immediate and decisive measures to address the worsening insecurity across the country. The protest, tagged “Nigerians Unite Against Terror,” commenced at the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and ended at the National Assembly com...
•Incarcerated IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu Emmanuel Kanu, younger brother of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has challenged the legal foundation of his brother’s terrorism conviction, arguing that any criminal conviction must be anchored on a valid law in force at the time judgment is delivered. In a statement ...
•Terrorists and the released kidnap victims Residents of Ngoshe community in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State who recently regained their freedom after spending three months in captivity have recounted their harrowing experiences in the hands of terrorists. In separate interviews with our correspondents in Pulka yesterday, the victim...
•Police The Lagos State Police Command has dismissed fears over a circulating threat notice allegedly pasted in a school, claiming that bandits planned to attack and abduct schoolchildren, assuring residents that there is no verified intelligence supporting such a threat. In a post shared on X today, the Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos ...
•Blackout Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) have spent a staggering N220 billion on solar power installations in 15 months, as government institutions increasingly move to shield themselves from Nigeria’s unreliable national grid and surging energy costs. The expenditure, captured across 2,855 government payment transactions,...
•Tinubu and terrorists At least 8,521 Nigerians sought refuge in Niger, Cameroon and Chad between December 2025 and May 2026 as a result of insecurity in the North-West and the North-East. This is according to an analysis of data from the UNHCR Nigeria Forcibly Displaced Populations dashboard, obtained by our correspondent for the six-month pe...
•NLC Nigerian workers, under the aegis of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), have threatened to embark on a solidarity strike with teachers and other workers if governments fail to urgently address worsening insecurity and the increasing abduction of pupils, students and education workers across the country. NLC President, Joe Ajaero, expresse...
•Deportees from US Nigeria will receive the highest number of deportees among West African countries after the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed the removal of 110 Nigerians as part of a wider crackdown that will see 355 nationals from the sub-region returned home. The DHS yesterday published names and photographs o...
•Adeboye, Tinubu and Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant General Oluyede The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has urged the federal government to give Nigeria’s security chiefs a 90-day ultimatum to eliminate terrorists or resign from office. Adeboye made the call in a video shared on his X handle...

