President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of new Service Chiefs in what the Presidency described as part of efforts to strengthen Nigeria’s national security architecture. A statement issued on Friday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communication, Sunday Dare, announced the new appointments. According to the statement, General Olufemi Oluyede has been appointed as the new Chief of Defence Staff, replacing General Christopher Musa. Major-General W. Shaibu is now...

Abubakar Isah Mokwa, a postgraduate student at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBBUL), Lapai, has been arrested after making online criticisms of Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago of Niger State. Mokwa, aged 29 and a member of the Department of Agricultural Economy and Extension, was arrested late on 23 October 2025 at an off-campus lodge in Lapai and transferred to the Niger State Police Command Headquarters in Minna for further investigation. According to SP Wasiu Abiodun, spokesperson...

On Friday, 24 October 2025, a Magistrate Court in Kuje granted bail to Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, Aloy Ejimakor, lawyer to detained IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu, Kanu’s brother Prince Emmanuel Kanu, and ten other protesters arrested during the #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest held earlier this week. They were arraigned on charges of unlawful assembly and disturbance of public peace. Each defendant was granted bail in the sum of ₦500,000. The court imposed several conditions: submission...