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By Adeola Badru An Ibadan-based journalist, Ojo Peter, has been shot dead by suspected armed robbers, along the Molete-Oke Ado axis of Ibadan. Initially, Peter was believed to have died of typhoid fever, the true cause was revealed by his younger brother, Enahoro Peter, who said the late reporter was attacked on August 18, 2025, […]

By Demola Akinyemi Ilorin—A five-man gang of gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, have abducted the wife and daughter of Alhaji Muhammad Swasun, the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Patigi Local Government Area of Kwara State. The victims of the incident which happened at Sakpefu area of the council were identified as Hajiya […]

By Elizabeth Adegbesan The Naira yesterday appreciated to N1,530 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,535 per dollar last week Thursday. But, the Naira depreciated to N1,513 per dollar reaching a new level in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM). Data published by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, showed that the exchange rate […]

  Rupert Murdoch’s children have reached a settlement in the legal dispute over control of the right-wing media mogul’s companies, News Corp and Fox Corp announced Monday. The agreement resolves litigation after some siblings had contested Murdoch’s effort to install as successor his son Lachlan, who shares his father’s political orientation. But a Nevada court […]

  President Emmanuel Macron will accept the resignation of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday after his government was ejected in a confidence vote, with the French leader rushing to find a successor and stave off a new political crisis. On Monday, Bayrou suffered a crushing loss in a confidence vote he had himself called, […]

  A former top security executive at WhatsApp filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging that parent company Meta systematically violated cybersecurity regulations and retaliated against him for reporting the failures. Attaullah Baig, who served as head of security for WhatsApp from 2021 to 2025, claims that approximately 1,500 engineers had unrestricted access to user data […]

  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Special Committee on Examination Infractions (SCEIi) has said that computer-based centres found culpable in the over 4,000 cases of exam fraud uncovered by the committee will be shut down and their owners jailed. “What we saw is mind-blowing — the manipulations, the transactions, you will see young […]

  Troops of the 6 Division, Nigerian Army, have intensified their clampdown on oil theft and arms trafficking in the Niger Delta, with significant breakthroughs recorded in Rivers State. A statement signed by Lieutenant Colonel Danjuma Jonah Danjuma, Acting Deputy Director of 6 Division Army Public Relations, disclosed that the operations between August 25 and […]

Leaders of the 11-member BRICS bloc railed against economic protectionism and “tariff blackmail” during a virtual meeting Monday held amid a damaging trade war with US President Donald Trump. The group of emerging economies met via videoconference at the initiative of Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose office said it was necessary to […]

  Katsina State Governor, Malam Dikko Radda, on Monday launched a €5.1 million European Union-funded Conflict Prevention, Crisis Response, and Resilience project to strengthen peace and stability in the state. The 18-month project, which covers eight local government areas in Katsina and two in Zamfara State, builds on a previous initiative that benefited over 95,000 […]

  France’s parliament on Monday ousted the government of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou after just nine months in office, leaving President Emmanuel Macron scrambling to find a successor and plunging the country into a new political crisis. Bayrou, who has been in the job for just nine months, had blindsided even his allies by calling […]

  Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a man charged with plotting to shoot Donald Trump on a Florida golf course during last year’s presidential election campaign. In an unusual step, Ryan Routh, 59, is representing himself at the trial in Fort Pierce, Florida, which is expected to last between two and four […]