Troops Dismantle Bandit Camps in Benue, Recover Weapons, POS Machines and More

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaTroops Dismantle Bandit Camps in Benue, Recover Weapons, POS Machines and More

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 19, 2025

Nigerian troops under Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS) have destroyed several hideouts belonging to notorious armed gangs around Akwaza in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State. The operation, carried out by the 72 Special Forces Battalion in partnership with other security agencies, targeted camps linked to the wanted bandit leader known as Konyo Mbise. It was part of a wider military effort to flush out criminal elements ahead of the farming season. “In a recent...

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Ohanaeze Renames May 30 Biafra Day to ‘Igbo Heroes Day’

NewsNigeriaPoliticsOhanaeze Renames May 30 Biafra Day to ‘Igbo Heroes Day’

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 17, 2025

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has announced that May 30, long marked as Biafra Remembrance Day, will now be known and celebrated as Igbo Heroes Day. This was made known in a statement issued by the group’s Deputy National President, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, and shared with journalists in Abakaliki on Thursday. According to Isiguzoro, the decision to rename the day is not just symbolic, but strategic. He said it is a way of...

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Tinubu to Armed Forces: Intensify Battle Against Terrorists, Insecurity Must End

NewsNigeriaPoliticsTinubu to Armed Forces: Intensify Battle Against Terrorists, Insecurity Must End

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 17, 2025

…New Weapons Ready as CDS Vows to Crush Terrorism  President Bola Tinubu has charged the Armed Forces of Nigeria to step up their game and decisively confront the country’s security challenges, declaring that national security remains the bedrock of Nigeria’s democracy, peace and economic growth. Speaking on Friday through Vice President Kashim Shettima at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, during the induction of two Agusta 109 Trekker helicopters into the Nigerian Air Force...

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2025 UTME: Aggrieved Candidates Demand Total Cancellation as JAMB Admits Glitch Affected Results

EducationNewsNigeria2025 UTME: Aggrieved Candidates Demand Total Cancellation as JAMB Admits Glitch Affected Results

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 15, 2025

…Parents, Ohanaeze Youth kick as Board orders resit for over 200,000 candidates Some candidates who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have called for the total cancellation of the results following the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s (JAMB) admission of technical errors that affected the performance of over 379,000 candidates. The aggrieved candidates, speaking with Daily Trust on Wednesday, expressed their frustration, disappointment and heartbreak after JAMB’s Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, publicly...

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Tinubu to Attend Inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV in Rome

NewsNigeriaPoliticsTinubu to Attend Inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV in Rome

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 15, 2025

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will on Saturday, 17 May 2025, depart Abuja for Rome to attend the inauguration mass of the newly elected head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV. According to a press statement signed by Mr Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, the President will be attending the solemn mass at the invitation of the new Pontiff. Pope Leo XIV, born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, was...

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Nigeria’s Inflation Rate Eases to 23.71% in April, Says NBS

BusinessNewsNigeriaNigeria’s Inflation Rate Eases to 23.71% in April, Says NBS

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 15, 20251

Nigeria’s headline inflation rate declined slightly to 23.71 per cent  in April 2025, down from 24.23 per cent recorded in March, according to the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Thursday. The NBS noted that the 0.52 percentage point drop indicates a modest easing of inflationary pressures in Africa’s largest economy. On a month-on-month basis, the headline inflation rate stood at 1.86 per cent in April,...

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UTME 2025: JAMB Acknowledges Error, Promises Remedy

EducationNewsNigeriaUTME 2025: JAMB Acknowledges Error, Promises Remedy

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 14, 2025

…Thousands to Resit Exam Following System Failures The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede, has addressed the nation amid mounting complaints over the recently released results of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Speaking during a press conference held at the Board’s headquarters in Bwari, Abuja, on Wednesday, 14th May 2025, Professor Oloyede acknowledged that a technical error affected the scores of thousands of candidates, particularly in...

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UTME 2025: JAMB Engages Experts to Review Exam as  Candidates Reject Poor Results

EducationNewsNigeriaUTME 2025: JAMB Engages Experts to Review Exam as  Candidates Reject Poor Results

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 13, 2025

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has come under intense fire following widespread complaints over alleged technical glitches, incomplete questions, and shockingly low scores in the recently concluded 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). What started as murmurs of dissatisfaction from candidates has now snowballed into a national controversy, with over 1.5 million candidates petitioning JAMB for an immediate review of the examination. Many have threatened to take legal action if their demands are...

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Two Soldiers, Two LEA Workers Killed as Fresh Violence Rocks Borno

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaTwo Soldiers, Two LEA Workers Killed as Fresh Violence Rocks Borno

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 13, 2025

— AIG summons emergency security meeting over rising threats It was another dark day in Borno State as two soldiers and two education officials lost their lives in separate terror attacks on Monday. In Marte, a quiet town in the Lake Chad area of the state, Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters stormed the community around 2:00 a.m., engaging troops in a fierce gun battle that left two soldiers dead. According to security sources,...

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ASUU Gets New Voice as Piwuna Succeeds Osodeke as President

EducationNewsNigeriaASUU Gets New Voice as Piwuna Succeeds Osodeke as President

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 12, 2025

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has announced the emergence of Comrade Professor Christopher Goson Piwuna as its new National President. The development follows the expiration of the tenure of Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, who previously held the position. Professor Piwuna, a consultant psychiatrist and lecturer at the University of Jos, Plateau State, was declared the new president during the union’s National Delegates Conference held in the early hours of Monday. His emergence comes at...

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