Category: News
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NAPTIP TAKES CHARGE OF 6 TRAFFICKING VICTIMS BUSTED AT JIGAWA BORDER
NAPTIP’s Jigawa squad grabbed six suspected trafficking targets Monday from Nigeria Immigration Service at Babura Plantation Border Patrol—two guys and four ladies aged 32-36 from Ogun, Imo, Lagos and Enugu, snagged mid-journey to Europe via Libya and Niger Republic—vowing deep dives to sort victims from agents or accomplices amid yuletide lure spikes. Commander Abdulkadir Turajo…
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NAIRA CLIMBS N7.93 TO N1,456 VS DOLLAR IN MONDAY MARKET COMEBACK
The naira kicked off the week with a sharp rebound Monday at the official CBN window, firming up 0.5% to N1,456.56 per USD after shedding to N1,464.49 last Friday—erasing some prior week’s demand-driven wobbles as fresh inflows and tighter policy hints stabilize the FX rollercoaster under Tinubu’s reform push. This welcome bounce signals importer pressures…
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TROOPS SMASH TERRORISTS, NAB 61 SUSPECTS, FREE 69 HOSTAGES IN NATIONWIDE BLAZE
Defence Headquarters lit up the scoreboard Monday with a brutal week’s tally: scores of terrorists wiped out, 61 crooks cuffed and 69 kidnap victims sprung across Nigeria’s hotspots rom North-East’s ISWAP VBIED busts in Mairari to North-West cash grabs in Kaduna and North-Central rescues in Plateau proving Tinubu’s security surge crushes Boko Haram, bandits and…
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INEC SETS FEB 21 FOR RIVERS BY-ELECTIONS IN AHOADA II AND KHANA II
INEC locked in February 21, 2026, for hotly contested by-elections in Rivers State’s Ahoada East II (vacated by resignation) and Khana II (due to a member’s death) greenlighting party primaries Jan 23-27, campaigns kicking off Feb 8 and wrapping Feb 19, after Speaker notices hit the commission’s desk per the 1999 Constitution vacancy rules. Fresh…
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KOGI POLICE FLOOD LOKOJA-ABUJA HIGHWAY WITH COPS TO TAME TRAFFIC CHAOS
Kogi Police Command swung into high gear Monday, blanketing the Lokoja-Abuja highway with Mobile Force squads, traffic experts and Rapid Response teams to crush congestion, slash accidents and keep yuletide road warriors safe amid roadworks snarls and diversion headaches—personally bossed by CP Naziru Bello Kankarofi alongside FRSC brass. Spokesperson CSP William Ovye-Aya detailed strategic posts…
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BENUE GOV ALIA UNVEILS N605.5BN 2026 BUDGET TO REVIVE RURAL HEARTLANDS
Gov Hyacinth Alia rolled out a hefty N605.5 billion “Rural Development, Livelihood Support and Sustained Growth” blueprint Monday to Benue Assembly—a 10% jump from 2025—laser-focusing on flipping underfunded farm belts into economic powerhouses with N342.42bn capital (56.6%) fueling roads, agro-boosts and jobs, while N281.09bn recurrent (46.4%) locks in minimum wage, salaries and welfare amid herder-farmer…
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WHO UNVEILS GAME-CHANGING TRADITIONAL MEDICINE GLOBAL LIBRARY IN DELHI
The World Health Organisation dropped a bombshell Monday at the close of its second Global Summit on Traditional Medicine in New Delhi launching the first-ever TM Global Library, a digital powerhouse packing 1.6 million resources from hardcore science studies to ancient Indigenous wisdom, supercharged by AI wizardry like TMGL GPT and Evidence Gap Maps to…
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TRUMP YANKS 30 ENVOYS IN ‘AMERICA FIRST’ DIPLOMATIC SHAKEUP
President Trump’s team recalled nearly 30 senior career diplomats Monday, swapping them out for loyalists to laser-focus U.S. embassies on “America First” priorities targeting posts in smaller nations where non-partisan Foreign Service pros traditionally hold sway, a move State Dept calls routine but critics blast as morale-crushing politicization that hands wins to China and Russia.…
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KANO POLICE BUST NOTORIOUS ARMED ROBBER ABBA ALIYU IN HAUSAWA RAID
Kano’s Anti-Daba Unit pounced Sunday on 26-year-old Abba Aliyu from Dala Quarters after a Hausawa armed robbery distress call, snagging the knife-wielding thug red-handed and cracking open his bloody rap sheet of deadly heists, injuries and loot grabs across Kano, Lagos and Rivers—plus brutal “Daba” gang clashes in Gobirawa, Tudun Fulani and Mayanka hotspots. CSP…
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FG DELIVERS HOUSES AND LAND TO SUPER EAGLES FOR 2023 AFCON SILVER HEROICS
President Bola Tinubu’s government made good on its word Monday in Morocco, handing Super Eagles stars their pledged FCT plots, housing units and OON honors for that epic 2023 AFCON runner-up run slamming Côte d’Ivoire 2-1 in the final only to bow 2-1, a feat NFF prez Ibrahim Gusau called pure motivation ahead of today’s…
