DANGUT succeeds PATEH BAH of The Gambia, and will serve for a period of five years, from October 2026 to September 2031.
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Corruption
The 431 mobile phones were linked to a cyber-fraud operation allegedly involving Chinese and Nigerian youths at a facility known as “HK” in Victoria Island, Lagos which was used to train and deploy Nigerian youths and foreign nationals to carry out romance, investment and cryptocurrency fraud.
Crime
FANI-KAYODE said the latest incidents bring the total number of Nigerians murdered in South Africa this year alone to twelve.
Crime
In Sokoto State, three of the convicted kidnappers were tried in absentia and they were identified JABBI ALHAJI YALLE and KABIRU MUHAMMAD, as well as YUSUF MUHAMMAD, also known as SALLAU, who is from Niger Republic.
Controversial
President TINUBU departed Abuja on August 30 for a twenty-one-day working vacation in London and Paris, but his return was postponed twice without any clear reason.
Crime
NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, FEMI BABAFEMI, said the suspect claimed to be into car decoration business at the Trade Fair Complex in the Ojo area of Lagos before he relocated to Portugal in May 2023.
Community
Better known as AYA Diaspora Connect, the umbrella body all Asaga youths overseas, donated over one thousand exercise books, plus several dozens of pens, and pencils, which were distributed to pupils across the four schools.
Controversial
President TINUBU departed Abuja on August 30 for a twenty-one-day working vacation in London and Paris, but his return was postponed twice without any clear reason.
Controversial
LAWAL said WIKE must choose where his political allegiance lies, stressing that APC state governors would not change their position, regardless of the FCT Minister’s comments on the issue.
Controversial
PETER OBI challenged the “Anambra State Government to clarify how a state whose recorded external debt was about US$30 million in March 2014 and US$45.15 million in December 2014 could supposedly have inherited US$123.77 million from Peter Obi, who left office in March of that same year.”
Controversial
NDC scribe, IKENNA ENEKWEIZU, said the delay in the composition of the NDC campaign council had been partly due to the frequent overseas travels of the party’s leaders, including the presidential candidate, PETER OBI.
Politics
NDC’s National Publicity Secretary, OSA DIRECTOR, says OBI and KWANKWASO are to nominate the Campaign Council’s Director-General, Deputy Director-General (North), Campaign spokesman, Deputy spokesman, Head of New Media, Finance Director, Deputy Finance Director, among others.
Controversial
Confirming the extended vacation in a statement, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, BAYO ONANUGA noted that since he began the vacation, President TINUBU has continued to keep in touch with home, directing the affairs of the nation.
Foreign
Argentine FA President CLAUDIO TAPIA said all of Argentina’s 2022 World Cup winners have also been invited to join MESSI for the game at River Plate’s Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires.
Sports
Unfortunately, the ‘celebration’ ended with Fulham stumbling against Crystal Palace.
Breaking News
INFANTINO said critics should meditate, pray or watch a football match, instead of spreading hate and false rumours about his leadership.
Foreign
KELVIN and AUSTIN have a custom-built glass cubicle specially designed for them in the middle of New York's Times Square, where they are not just required to watch every match, but also to create content for fans.
Breaking News
These include Iran, who were forced to switch their training base to Mexico due to the Middle East conflict, despite their three group games on American soil. The Iranian football federation also said its allocation of tickets for fans had been revoked.
Entertainment
DAVIDO wore a jacket inscribed with the names of schoolchildren and teachers who were abducted by terrorists in Oyo, with a view to drawing global attention to security crisis confronting Nigerians back home.
Foreign
This is the second time he has been given a prison sentence in the MIRIAM HALEY case, after New York's highest court overturned his initial 2020 conviction in a 2024 judgement.
Foreign
CNN, MS NOW and Politico claim the government action, if left unchallenged, threatens press freedom and the public’s right to independent journalism free from government interference.
Foreign
The latest victim was found half-naked and wrapped in a sheet on the side of a road in Dawn Park on Thursday morning.
Foreign
Argentine FA President CLAUDIO TAPIA said all of Argentina’s 2022 World Cup winners have also been invited to join MESSI for the game at River Plate’s Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires.
Foreign
Until his death, the President’s husband was an agricultural academic who largely kept a low public profile, even after President SAMIA took office in 2021.
Foreign
Lava fountains and volcanic ash have been rising from the volcano into the capital and the Lampung province, as the site stayed seismically active throughout the weekend.
Foreign
This is the second time he has been given a prison sentence in the MIRIAM HALEY case, after New York's highest court overturned his initial 2020 conviction in a 2024 judgement.
Foreign
The trial is expected to revisit the battle between Death Row, founded by MARION “SUGE” KNIGHT, and Bad Boy Records, created by SEAN “DIDDY” COMBS, with the late CHRISTOPHER WALLACE, better known as “The Notorious B.I.G.” as the lead artist, who was equally murdered in gang-related violence.
Entertainment
DAVIDO wore a jacket inscribed with the names of schoolchildren and teachers who were abducted by terrorists in Oyo, with a view to drawing global attention to security crisis confronting Nigerians back home.
Community
The World Happiness Report 2026 is based on an annual survey conducted in collaboration with the United Nations, under the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which ranks countries based on citizens’ self-assessed life satisfaction.
Crime
Earlier reports indicate that BRODA SHAGGY, whose real name is SAMUEL PERRY, was attacked around the Sango-Ota under-bridge area on Sunday afternoon, March 8, 2026.
Entertainment
The handyman initially filed the lawsuit in 2023, alleging unsafe working conditions, unpaid wages and wrongful termination.
Business
CAPPA says it seeks to verify the legislative history of the bill, promote transparency in the lawmaking process, and clarify how provisions that are considered dangerous to public health were introduced into the legislation.
Featured
"The path to a healthy and productive Nigeria is not paved in laboratory-enriched bouillon cubes; it is found in a resilient food system that promotes dietary diversity and nutrition security."
Business
The intercepted foreign currencies comprise of Seventy-Three Thousand US Dollars, Fifteen Thousand, Nine Hundred and Fifty-Seven Pounds, and Eight Hundred and Twenty-Seven Thousand, Eight Hundred Saudi Riyal.
Business
NDLEA spokesman, FEMI BABAFEMI said NWANKWO INNOCENT ONYEBUCHI confessed during interrogation that he sold off his marble business and other assets to raise the sum of Twenty-Five Million Naira, which he used to pay for the cocaine consignment.
Foreign
In a statement, the U.S. Mission to Nigeria said the programme underscored the United States' priority of increasing trade and investment opportunities between the United States and Nigeria.
Breaking News
Ezeokafor, the father of popular social media personality Jowi Zaza, was abducted in the early hours of Tuesday while on his way to a prayer ground in Awka, Anambra State.
Featured
"This is not a matter of political convenience. It is a matter of constitutional order."
Featured
I worry that he is taking a costly risk by venturing into places without knowing what danger or enmity lurks along the way. It is one thing to show solidarity with victims of insecurity; it is another to put oneself unnecessarily in harm’s way.
Featured
"The path to a healthy and productive Nigeria is not paved in laboratory-enriched bouillon cubes; it is found in a resilient food system that promotes dietary diversity and nutrition security."
Featured
"Tinubu knows that rigging Osun would not be in his interest going into 2027. Allowing the people to choose their governor may prove to have been the smarter political investment."
Featured
"The reasonable response is neither to pronounce EMEAKAYI guilty nor to simply dismiss the allegations. The government can - and should - investigate. If the evidence does not support prosecution, let that be established transparently."
Featured
The Police Public Relations Officer for Headquarters Zone 5 Command, SP TIJANI A. MOMOH, said AIG AGBONIKA assumed duty on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, succeeding AIG SALMAN-DOGO GARBA who recently retired from the Force.
Featured
Infodata's Sales Leader for Oil & Gas Operations, Engr. NDUKA NWOSU, said the NOG Energy Week 2026 in Abuja, reaffirms that digital transformation, operational technology cybersecurity and artificial intelligence have become central to the future of energy production.
Corruption
The suspects are alleged to have unlawfully gained access to the company’s network billing infrastructure and fraudulently generated airtime, which was subsequently converted to data bundles, and thereafter distributed and sold through a network of vendors across the country.
Foreign
Millions of students are expected to retake the examination, after the initial test in May was cancelled over allegations of a paper leak through Telegram by cheating rackets.
Breaking News
IPv6 is the acronym for Internet Protocol Version 6, which is the latest version of the Internet Protocol (IP), designed to address the limitations of IPv4, particularly the exhaustion of IP addresses.
Breaking News
Confirming the development in a statement, the Head, Public Affairs Department of the NCC, NNENNA UKOHA, said the MoU also offers opportunities for consumers to leverage the potentials of the telecommunications and financial sectors.
Breaking News
The NCC spokeswoman noted that poor service delivery has far-reaching consequences, affecting productivity, business activities, and public confidence in the communications system.
Community
Better known as AYA Diaspora Connect, the umbrella body all Asaga youths overseas, donated over one thousand exercise books, plus several dozens of pens, and pencils, which were distributed to pupils across the four schools.
Finally, all the kidnapped pupils and teachers in Orire, Oyo have been rescued by our security agencies. - BAYO ONANUGA, SA Information and Strategy to President BOLA AHMED TINUBU.
The Command’s intervention followed a viral online video showing two masked individuals emerging from a forest near the Pan African University, Lekki, Lagos.
The Head of Public Affairs Department at the NIPSS, OSIME SAMUEL, disclosed in a statement that the situation was quickly brought under control through security reinforcement.
Business
CAPPA says it seeks to verify the legislative history of the bill, promote transparency in the lawmaking process, and clarify how provisions that are considered dangerous to public health were introduced into the legislation.
Police investigation trailed another victim of the syndicate, identified as twenty-six-year-old BLESSING BRIGHT, to a hospital in Mowe where she was receiving treatment after giving birth to a baby boy at the illegal maternity on August 20, 2026. However, she was found without the newborn.
"The path to a healthy and productive Nigeria is not paved in laboratory-enriched bouillon cubes; it is found in a resilient food system that promotes dietary diversity and nutrition security."
The consignment comprised of 246,864.535 kilograms seized by the Lagos Strategic Command of the NDLEA between April 2025 and May 2026, while 83,001.05 kilograms came from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Tincan and Apapa Strategic Commands, as well as the Marine Command, and others.
Community
The Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, TOKUNBO WAHAB, identified the vulnerable areas prone to flooding to include Eti-Osa, Lagos Island, Ajah, Kirikiri, Ilaje Waterfront Jetty, and Jetty Terminal B, among others.
Lava fountains and volcanic ash have been rising from the volcano into the capital and the Lampung province, as the site stayed seismically active throughout the weekend.
U.S. Consul General Brandon Hudspeth noted that the Lejja Iron-Smelting Site tells a 4,000-year-old story of ingenuity, innovation, and technological sophistication.
The protesters stressed that the proposed election boycott was not a rejection of democracy but a demand for accountability from politicians seeking their votes.
