FG Orders Closure of 41 Unity Colleges Over Security Fears

Plateau, Katsina Temporarily Shut Basic Schools The Federal Government has ordered the immediate shutdown of 41 Unity Colleges across Nigeria, citing recent security threats. Additionally, the Plateau State Universal Basic Education Board (PSUBEB) has directed the closure of all junior and senior basic schools in the state as a precautionary measure. In a circular issued on Friday by Hajia Binta Abdulkadir, Director of Senior Secondary Education at the Ministry of Education, the Minister of Education, Dr...

ECOWAS Court Serves Writ on Nigeria to End Death Penalty Blasphemy Laws

Nigeria has come under pressure to dismantle its blasphemy laws after the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice issued a writ of execution compelling the country to act. The move comes nearly eight months after the court ruled the provisions unlawful. In April 2025, the ECOWAS Court ruled in favour of the Incorporated Trustees of Expression Now Human Rights Initiative in a case against the Federal Republic of Nigeria, declaring...

Ohanaeze Tells Nigerians To Join Tinubu On National Reconciliation,

…. Expresses Concern Over Harsh Handling Of The Case Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has condemned the life imprisonment judgement passed on Thursday by Justice James Omotosho against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). In a press statement on Friday signed by Dr. Ezechi Chukwu, National Publicity Secretary of the socio-cultural organisation, Ohaneze expressed disappointment over the judgement, stressing that the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Senator John Azuta-Mbata has called for calm...

House Of Reps Probes 17 Years Power Sector 

The systemic failures that have plagued Nigeria’s electricity sector for the past 17 years have forced the lower chamber to investigate funds allocated to the sector. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dr. Abbas Tajudeen, disclosed this at the commencement of an investigative hearing into the nation’s power sector reforms, said the House is committed to correcting the ills. The Speaker, represented by the Chairman, House Committee on Environment, Mike Etaba, lamented that despite years...

Farmers In Niger State To Benefits From World Bank-L-PRES Programme

No fewer than 32,000 livestock farmers in Niger State would benefit from the World Bank-assisted Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project (L-PRES). This is part of efforts to empower beneficiaries in line with the state and federal governments’ strategies for developing the livestock sub-sector. Mr Jiya Danladi Mohammed, L-PRES State Project Coordinator, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Minna, saying the targeted farmers would benefit from a range of interventions, including artificial insemination...

Stakeholders  Call on Senate to Address Open Grazing, Youth Unemployment

South East Stakeholders at Security Summit Advocates Open Grazing   Stakeholders at the Security Summit Enugu advocate for youth employment, state policing, and complete end of open grazing in the South East region as a panacea to curbing insecurity in the region and the nation at large. The One-Day Summit is organized by the Senate Ad-hoc committee for relevant stakeholders in the South East zone at the International Conference Centre, ICC, Enugu; theme- ‘Strengthening Nigeria’s National...

Grant IPOB Leader Pardon, Stop Parties From Appealing, APGA Founder Tells Tinubu

Founder and first national chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Chekwas Okorie has asked President Bola Tinubu to take immediate steps to invoke his special presidential dispensation to halt Nnamdi Kanu’s highly incendiary matter and grant him pardon without allowing the parties to proceed with appeals at the appellate and apex courts. Recall that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was on Thursday, sentenced to life imprisonment by...

IPOB Leader Nnamdi Kanu Convicted of Terrorism, Sentenced to Life Imprisonment

A Federal High Court has found Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), guilty on all seven terrorism charges brought against him by the Federal Government. Justice James Omotosho, who delivered the verdict on Thursday, ruled that the prosecution had “successfully established every allegation” against Kanu. Justice Omotosho pointed out that Kanu offered no credible defence and “deliberately refused” to challenge the prosecution’s evidence.  He described him as “a person who...

Court Convicts Nnamdi Kanu On Terrorism Offenses

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has been found guilty of terrorism offenses by the Federal High Court in Abuja after 10 years of legal battle between Nnamdi Kanu and the Nigerian government. Justice James Omotosho, while announcing Kanu’s conviction in a lengthy judgment delivered on Thursday, said: “It is clear from the evidence that the defendant committed a terrorism act. “The defendant is convicted in respect of court one.”...

Kebbi LGA Chairman Publishes Names of Kidnapped Schoolgirls

The chairman of Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area in Kebbi State, Hussaini Aliyu, has publicly released the names of 25 schoolgirls abducted from the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, following a brutal dawn raid by bandits. According to the list, the students are identified by class: Senior Secondary School (SSS) 2A/2B, SSS 3A/B, Junior Secondary School (JSS) 3A, and JSS 2. Below is a list of the abducted girls: JSS 2: Khadija Nazifi, Hauwa’u Iliyasu,...

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