Troops Rescue 3 Kidnap Victims In Zamfara, Foil Bandits Attack

Troops of the Joint Task Force North West, Operation FANSAN YAMMA (JTF NW OPFY), have foiled a terrorist attack in Kaduna State and rescued three kidnapped victims in Zamfara State. According to a statement issued by the Media Information Officer of the Joint Task Force North West, Lieutenant Colonel Aliyu Danja, said the operations were carried out separately on September 10 and 11, 2026. Danja said the troops of Sector 1 responded to a distress...

Uncompleted Hotel in Independence Layout, Enugu Collapse, 4 Injured, and 1 Feared Dead

A four-story building under construction for hotel purposes collapsed on Sunday in Independence Layout, Enugu. According to the security man on site, six men were there, but one left before the collapse. Addressing newsmen, the Executive Chairman of Enugu Capital Territory Development Agency (ECTDA), Mr. Uche Anya, said it was a case of one of the recalcitrant developers who failed to comply with building codes. Anya revealed that although the building was approved in 2021,...

Osun: DSS Warns of Attacks on Churches, Mosques, Markets

The Department of State Services has alerted Muslim and Christian leaders in Osun State to an alleged plan by terrorists to attack places of worship and other crowded locations in an attempt to create insecurity ahead of the 2027 general elections. The warning was issued during separate meetings between DSS officials and leaders of the Muslim community and the Christian Association of Nigeria in Osogbo on Wednesday. The security agency reportedly told the religious leaders...

Chimamanda Adichie: My Son’s Death Has Changed How I Feel About Nigeria

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has said the death of her 21-month-old son, Nkanu, has profoundly changed her relationship with Nigeria, saying she no longer wants to return to the country. Adichie made the disclosure in an interview with The New York Times published on Thursday, where she spoke extensively about the death of her son and the ongoing dispute surrounding the circumstances of his treatment at a Lagos hospital. Asked whether Nigeria still felt...

Tinubu Mourns Former PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu mourns the passing of elder statesman, renowned businessman, and former Governor of the old Gongola State, Alhaji Bamanga Muhammad Tukur, who died at age 90. Tinubu in a statement signed by his Special Adviser (Information & Strategy), Bayo Onanuga, the president, described the death of Alhaji Tukur, the Tafidan Adamawa, as the end of a remarkable chapter in Nigeria’s political and economic history. President Tinubu says Alhaji Tukur was a towering...

Social Media Citizen Journalists Have Seized Nigeria’s Newsroom

“From viral abuse videos to police arrests, Nigeria’s social-media creators are breaking stories, forcing action, and challenging a traditional press that once controlled the national conversation.” Without doubt, Nigeria’s online citizen journalists have overpowered and subdued the traditional media in both breaking and investigating news prowess. The evidence increasingly arrives not from a newsroom, but from an ordinary Nigerian holding a smartphone. Just recently, the Anambra police arrested 36-year-old Anulika Onyeanusia after a disturbing video...

Nigeria’s Private Media at 30: Louder, Freer, but Weaker?

I wrote in USAfrica Online in 1996 that Nigeria’s broadcasting industry was at a crossroads. While state television continued to dominate the airwaves, several newly licensed private broadcasting stations were trying to find space despite significant startup costs and a military government uncertain about what the future held for them. At the time, the big question was whether private radio and television would be able to establish themselves at all. Thirty years later, with a...

Enugu Police Commissioner, PRO Receive Best Crime-Busting Awards

The Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Police Command, CP Mamman Bitrus Giwa, has received the 2025 Best Crime Busting Police Chief in West Africa award, while the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Daniel Ndukwe, received the Best Police Public Relations Officer in Nigeria award. Presenting the awards at the Enugu State Command Headquarters, GRA, Enugu, the International Coordinator and Chief Executive Officer of the Security Watch Africa Initiative, Mr. Patrick Agbambu, said the...

Ododo Inaugurates APC Peace, Conflict Resolution Committee

Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo of Kogi State has inaugurated the All Progressives Congress (APC) Peace and Conflict Resolution Committee to reconcile aggrieved party members. He also stressed the need to restore unity and strengthen the party ahead of the 2027 general elections. According to a statement on Wednesday by Kingsley Femi Fanwo, Kogi State Commissioner for Information and Communications, the Governor gave the charge on Tuesday while inaugurating the 17-member committee headed by former Governor of...

Reps Investigate ₦432bn Oil Industry Liabilities, Summon Debtors

The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has commenced an investigation into outstanding financial liabilities in Nigeria’s oil industry, put at more than ₦432 billion. Affected companies and other relevant entities have been summoned to account for the debts owed to the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA). The investigation followed findings contained in the Auditor-General’s annual audit reports on unpaid regulatory and petroleum-related obligations accruing to the NMDPRA. The Committee is...

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