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Nigeria’s capital importation surged by 83.8 per cent to $10.37 billion in the first quarter of 2026 (Q1’26), up from $5.64 billion recorded in the corresponding period of 2025, signaling renewed foreign investor confidence in the country’s financial markets.
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By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA — The Federal Government on Wednesday said recidivism within the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has dropped sharply from 11,616 in 2023 to 1,382 in 2025, attributing the decline to ongoing rehabilitation and reformation programmes under President Bola Tinubu’s administration. Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, disclosed this during the presentation of […]
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By Henry Obetta LAGOS — Prominent pro-democracy activists, Hafsat Abiola, President of the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND), and Joe Okei-Odumakin, President of Women Arise, have called on Nigerians to re-organise and recommit to building a democratic system that reflects citizens’ aspirations. In a joint statement titled “Alhaja Kudirat Abiola: 30 Years After”, the activists […]
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Nigeria’s education crisis took a worrying turn on Tuesday as the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) disclosed that only one in every four schoolchildren in the country can read properly and solve basic mathematics by age 14.
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Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State and the Olowo of Owo, Oba Ajibade Ogunoye, have commended the judiciary and security agencies over the conviction and death sentence of four suspects involved in the June 5, 2022 attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo.
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The PBAT Mandate Elders Forum in Ondo State has advised Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa not to act in ways that could undermine President Bola Tinubu’s political interests as the All Progressives Congress (APC) prepares for future elections.
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India’s foreign ministry condemned an Iranian attack on Kuwait’s airport on Wednesday, confirming that an Indian national had been killed and others wounded.
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In a communique read by the party’s Head of Strategy and Planning, Dr Clement Iwegbuna, the NNPP resolved to picket INEC headquarters in Abuja soon.
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“We are here to plead on behalf of our village. Our people have been in captivity for 36 days. We have children as young as two and three years old and an elderly woman who is over 80 years old among those kidnapped. Families are suffering and children keep asking for their mothers.
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FarmAfrik Chairman Calls for Greater Investment in Agriculture, Manufacturing, Job Creation and Strategic Partnerships — Chairman of FarmAfrik.org, Les Ojugbana, has called for a renewed commitment to agriculture, manufacturing, and industrial development as part of a broader strategy to drive economic growth, create jobs, and strengthen Nigeria’s long-term prosperity. Ojugbana said Nigeria possesses the natural […]
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