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Oshiomhole backs bigger role for NSCDC

Nigeria News June 19, 20264 Mins Read

The Senator representing Edo North Senatorial District, Adams Oshiomhole, has called for a review of…

Commission of Police, Rivers state, Olugbenga Adepoju

Rivers By-election: movement banned in 7 LGAs over security

Nigeria News June 19, 20262 Mins Read

Residents of seven Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Rivers State will be unable to…

Ekiti State government announcement showing civil servants preparing for the 2026 governorship election as Friday is declared a work-free day to support voter participation.

Ekiti declares work-free Friday ahead of governorship election

June 19, 2026

Nigeria plans ₦500bn emergency fund to tackle insecurity

June 19, 2026

Government officials at a Nigeria Union of Journalists summit in Abuja, where Nigeria’s Defence Ministry discussed embedding journalists with military units to improve reporting on security operations, as announced by Christopher Gwabin Musa.

FG Plans to attach journalists to military for better security coverage

June 19, 2026

CUPP urges Tinubu to fix governance or resign

June 18, 2026

Peter Obi backs South Africa style borrowing transparency

June 18, 2026

APC seeks diaspora media teams to counter misinformation

June 18, 2026

A Bureau de Change operator counts US dollars as the Nigerian Naira slid sharply against the dollar in parallel and official markets on 23 February 2026.

Naira holds steady at N1,360/$ officially, N1,400/$ at parallel market

June 18, 2026

El-Rufai support group engages US firm over trial, raises alarm on detention

June 18, 2026

Reps minority caucus accuses FG of prioritising politics over governance

June 18, 2026

former Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke

Diezani walks free as UK court clears her after 11-year bribery probe

June 17, 2026

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has suspended the execution of a Federal High Court judgment that ordered the deregistration of five political parties, including the African Democratic Congress

Appeal Court halts deregistration of ADC, four other political parties

June 17, 2026

The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2023 general election, Adewole Adebayo, has alleged that President Bola Tinubu

Adebayo claims Tinubu can “produce his own votes” ahead of 2027 elections

June 17, 2026

In 2025, after hearing of a minor girl who, alongside her two companions, has been trafficked to Gambia from Nigeria and later Ghana as part of an effort to earn a living in search of a better

Reporter’s diary: The road to a trafficking survivor’s testimony

June 17, 2026

No hiding place for those who choose violence, says Tinubu

June 16, 2026

The National Youth Corps Members (NYSC) deployed to Ogun State for the 2026 Batch B Stream I orientation course have been warned against allowing strangers to use their mobile phones.

Ogun gov warns corps members against lending phones to strangers admist insecurity challenges

June 16, 2026

Kwara monarch reportedly dies in captivity

June 16, 2026

Emeka Ike sues INEC, Wike aide over alleged privacy breach, demands N10bn damage

June 16, 2026

Court rejects Sadiya Farouq’s bid to lift arrest warrant