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Justice James Omotoso of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has convicted the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, of the proscribed separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on the offence of engaging in act of terrorism. Justice James Omotosho, in his ongoing judgment in Kanu’s terrorism trial, found him guilty in relation to counts one and two of the seven-count charge being prosecuted by the Department of State Services (DSS). Justice Omotosho held that the threats of violence and k!llings, including the declaration of sit-at-home in the SouthEast states, in his many broadcasts constitute acts of terrorism. The judge has now moved on to the third count.

Seven Senior Chiefs in Ibadanland are set for elevation along the Olubadan Chieftaincy Line as His Imperial Majesty, Oba (Sen.) Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja (Arusagun I), the Olubadan of Ibadanland, performs another round of promotions on Friday, 21st November 2025. The ceremony will be held at the Banquet Hall, Olubadan Palace, Oke Aremo, Ibadan. A statement issued and signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Chief Ayoade Solomon Olugbemiga, listed the Senior Chiefs to be elevated as follows: Chief Rasheed Olalekan Alabi: from Maye Olubadan of Ibadanland to Abese Olubadan of Ibadanland Chief Ismaila Akinade Fijabi: from Ekefa Olubadan to Maye Olubadan Chief Saka Fola Lapade: from Agbaakin Olubadan to Ekefa Olubadan Chief Teslim Folarin: from Aare Alaasa Olubadan to Agbaakin Olubadan Others to be elevated include: Chief Muibi Ademola Adewuyi: from Ikolaba Olubadan to Aare Alaasa Olubadan Chief Raufu Yesufu Delesolu: from Asaaju Olubadan to Ikolaba Olubad...

Justice Emeka Nwite of a Federal High Court in Abuja today November 19 sentenced an ISWAP leader, Hussaini Ismaila, to 20 years in prison for carrying out terrorist attacks in Kano State. The court said Ismaila, also known as Mai Tangaran, was guilty after he changed his plea from “not guilty” to “guilty’’. According to the DSS, Ismaila helped plan and coordinate several attacks in 2012. These attacks targeted the Police Headquarters in Bompai, the Mobile Police Base on Kabuga Road, and police stations at Pharm Centre and Angwa Uku in Kano. Many people were injured during the attacks. He was arrested on 31 August 2017, at a village called Tsamiyya Babba in Gezewa Local Government Area of Kano. The DSS charged him under Nigeria’s Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act. The trial took several years because of appeals and a “trial-within-trial,” which the court used to decide whether Ismaila’s statements to investigators were made voluntarily. During the trial, the prosecution cal...

The Chairman of Danko-Wasagu Local Government Area, Hussaini Aliyu, has released the names of all 25 schoolgirls abducted from Government Girls Comprehensive School, Maga. Aliyu also refuted claims by U.S. lawmaker Riley Moore that the incident occurred in a Christian enclave. Aliyu stated that all the abducted students are Muslims and urged the lawmaker to refrain from making unverified statements that could inflame religious or ethnic tensions, especially while efforts are ongoing to rescue the girls. He emphasized that the Zuru Emirate, under which the Maga community falls, has a longstanding record of religious harmony. The names of the abducted schoolgirls are as follows: Senior Secondary School 2A 1. Fatima Sani Zimri 2. Hafsat Ibrahim 3. Nana Firdausi Jibril 4. Masauda Yakubu Romo Senior Secondary School 2B 5. Hauwa Saleh 6. Hauwau Umar Imam Senior Secondary School 3A & 3B 7. Salima Garba Umar 8. Salima Sani Zimri 9. Amina G. Umar 10. Rashida Muhammad Dingu 11. S...

Moroccan star Achraf Hakimi has been named the 2025 African Footballer of the Year by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).  The Paris Saint-Germain football star beat  Liverpool  striker Mohamed Salah and Galatasaray forward Victor Osimhen to become the first defender to win since former TP Mazembe and Zaire centre-back Bwanga Tshimen in 1973. The defender is also the first Moroccan to claim Africa’s top player prize since midfielder Mustapha Hadji in 1998. “It is really a proud moment for me to win this prestigious award,” Hakimi said in his acceptance speech.   “This trophy is not just for me, but all the strong men and women who have dreams of being a footballer in Africa. “And for those that always believed in me since I was a child, that I would be a professional footballer one day. I would like to thank them all.” Hakimi capped off a remarkable 2025, winning the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Su...

President Bola Tinubu has asked Vice President Kashim Shettima to visit Kebbi State on Wednesday to sympathise with the state government and assure parents and guardians of the k!dnapped schoolgirls that the government will ensure their quick release. A statement released by presidential spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, says President Tinubu also sent his condolences to the military over the death of the gallant soldiers and Brigadier General Musa Uba, who paid the ultimate price while on active duty fighting insurgents in Borno state. The President, who the military authorities have fully briefed about the two incidents, said he is depressed over the abduction of the schoolgirls, despite intelligence warnings of a possible strike by the bandits.   Sponsored Ads  “As the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, I am depressed with the tragic death of our soldiers and officers on active duty. May God comfort the families of Brigadier General Musa Uba and ...

The FCT police command has reacted to online reports claiming their was an ‘’ass@ssination attempt’’ on the life of Lt. A.M Yerima, the naval officer who clashed with FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, over a disputed piece of land. On Sunday, November 16, reports were rife online that Yerima was trailed by some unknown men clad in black and riding in two unmarked Hilux vans with no number plates. The vehicles allegedly followed him from the NIPCO Filling Station off the Line Expressway to Gado Nasco Way.  According to the report, Yerima noticed the men trailing him and executed a “strategic maneuver,” successfully evading the suspected assailants. It was also reported that the matter is under investigation and is receiving “the seriousness it deserves.”  Sponsored Ads Reacting to the report. the spokesperson of the FCT police command, SP Josephine Adeh, said no such incident has been reported or recorded anywhere within the Federal Capital Territory. The publi...

Police in Kenya have arrested three Nigerian nationals alleged to be in the country illegally and engaging in criminal activities, including cyber fraud.    The suspects were apprehended on Wednesday, November 12, 2025 at their hideout in Mwihoko village, Ngurubani town, Mwea East sub-county, following a joint operation by police and immigration officers.    Kirinyaga County Criminal investigations Officer (CCIO) Justus Imana said the operation was launched after a tip-off from members of the public.   Officers recovered 21 mobile phones, 79 SIM cards, a Dell laptop, and 37 credit cards from different banks, seven different currencies, a white powdery substance and paraphernalia suspected to be used in witchcraft.    Imana said investigations revealed the suspects entered Kenya on different dates between 2021 and January 2025 and have since overstayed their visas.   Sponsored Ads  “Their passports show they are in the ...

The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, says the faceoff between the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, and a Naval officer, LT A.M Yerima, over a parcel of land in the FCT was unnecessary and avoidable. In an interview with DCL Hausa, Matawalle revealed that Wike had earlier contacted both the Chief of Defence Staff and the Chief of Naval Staff, who advised him to allow the military to investigate the matter but however, he refused listen to them but instead chose to go to the land to confront the officers who were acting on the order from their superiors.    “What happened between Minister Wike and the officer is unfortunate. When he got there, the officer explained that he was simply obeying orders given to him. Wike should not have exchanged words with the officer; he ought to have addressed his concerns through the officer’s superiors. He (Wike) is our colleague, and Wike could have reached out to us to resolve whatever issue. The officer’s action w...

The Nigerian Air Force says it intensified counterterrorism and counter-banditry operations nationwide with series of precision airstrikes have wiped out Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in Mallam Fatori and Shuwaram, Borno State, destroyed bandit enclaves in Garin Dandi and Chigogo Kwara State, as well as Zango Hill in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State.  ‎ ‎A Statement by the Director of Public Relations and Information Air Commodore Ehimen Ejodame indicates that the coordinated missions, executed represents a decisive phase in ongoing joint operations under Operation HADIN KAI and Operation FANSAN YAMMA, aimed at terrorist and criminal networks across Nigeria’s northern theatres. ‎ ‎The success of these precision operations across Borno, Kwara, Katsina, and the wider northwestern corridor underscores the Nigerian Air Force’s renewed tempo following the directives of the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sunday An...

A high-level delegation sent by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu met with officials at the UK Ministry of Justice today to discuss the case of former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, who has been detained in Britain since March 2023. The delegation included Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, and the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Lateef Olasunkanmi Fagbemi. The meeting signals a renewed diplomatic effort by the Tinubu administration regarding the high-profile detention. Following the talks, the delegation was received at the Nigerian High Commission in London by Ambassador Mohammed Maidugu, the Acting High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. This high-level intervention from the Nigerian government occurs against a backdrop of increasing—and sometimes contentious—engagement between the British and Nigerian legal systems involving public figures. Sponsored Ads Senator Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice, and a doctor wer...

Senator Ned Nwoko has again reiterated his stance that his estranged wife, actress Regina Daniels must undergo rehabilitation to address drug abuse and safeguard her well-being so she can properly raise their two sons.  In a fresh interview with the News Agency of Nigeria NAN, Nwoko said his stance followed a series of “alarming” toxicology reports indicating “high levels of harmful substances in Daniels’ system”. He said that many persons have d!ed of drug overdose and that if anything happens to Regina, he has no idea of what he will tell their children.  “I want her alive and healthy, not just for me, but for our children. We have two young kids together, and they cannot fight for themselves, so I’m going to fight for them by safeguarding their mother. Many people have d!ed of drug overdose, and if anything happens to her now, what will I tell her children tomorrow? I have lived with this problem for eight months, and on three occasions, I had to carry her to Ni...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, wanted. According to the anti-graft agency, the former Delta State governor is wanted in connection with an alleged case of Conspiracy and Dishonest Conversion of $14,859,257. “The public is hereby notified that TIMIPRE SYLVA, a former Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, and former Governor of Bayelsa State, whose photograph appears above is wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in an alleged case of Conspiracy and Dishonest Conversion of $14,859,257 – part of funds injected by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) into Atlantic International Refinery and Petrochemical Limited for the construction of a Refinery. Sylva, 61, is from Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Sponsored Ads “This notice is pursuant to a November 6, 2025, warrant of the Lagos State High Court. “Anybody...

A wanted drug lord 40-year-old Yussuf Abayomi Azeez has been arrested by operatives of a special operations unit of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja Lagos while on his way to Saudi Arabia for Umrah, a holy pilgrimage, after months of intelligence and surveillance on him and his criminal drug activities.   In a statement released today November 9, the spokesperson ifbthe agency, Femi Babafemi, said the drug kingpin had been arrested and charged for drug offences in the United Kingdom but jumped bail and escaped to Nigeria.  Soon after settling down in Lagos, he set up a massive clandestine laboratory in the Lekki area of the state for the production of Colorado, a deadly synthetic cannabis and other illicit substances. At about 6:30am on Thursday 6th November 2025, Yussuf walked into the waiting hands of NDLEA operatives at the Lagos airport while attemptin...

Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), popularly known as Shiites, today November 8, took to the streets of Kano to stage a protest against United States President Donald Trump’s recent statement threatening to invade Nigeria to take out terrorists. Members of the sect marched across major roads in Kano city, carried placards and banners rejecting Trump’s claim that Christians were being targeted in a genocide in Nigeria. Some of the demonstrators were seen dragging the American flag on the ground, while others displayed effigies of the US president. Trump had recently designated Nigeria as a “Country of Particular Concern,” claiming that there was ongoing persecution of Christians by terrorist groups and warning that if the Nigerian government failed to act, he would deploy U.S. troops to stop the killings. He also directed the U.S. Department of War to prepare a possible military action plan. Sponsored Ads In reaction, the IMN dismissed Trump’s comm...

A house cleaner and mother-of-four di£d in the arms of her husband on Wednesday, Nov. 5, after she was f@tally shot outside a home near Indianapolis.  Maria Florinda Rios Perez, a 32-year-old immigrant from Guatemala, was headed to work cleaning a home with her husband in Whitestown, Indiana, on Wednesday morning when they arrived at the wrong house, the late woman’s brother, Rudy Rios said in Spanish.  Rios, 22, said when his sister had just arrived at the house, she tried to open the door using keys she was carrying when she was shot in the head and “fell into the arms of her husband.”  “It’s so unjust. She was only trying to bring home the daily bread to support her family,” Rios said. “She accidentally went to the wrong house, but he shouldn’t have taken her life.”  “She wasn’t threatening, she had nothing in her hands, only those keys,” he said.  Rios said his sister is a mother of four whose children range in age from one to 17 years old. ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has come out to clarify on the circumstances surrounding the death of one Endurance Udeke, a resident of apartment W6a, Periwinkle Estate, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, during a raid in the state on Tuesday, November 4.  In a statement released this evening, the commission said its operatives were in the Estate to carry out a sting operation.  ‘’The operation was smooth sailing in all the apartments and four suspected internet fraudsters were arrested. However, Udeke and one other resident of apartment W6a got wind of the operation and tried to escape arrest by jumping down from the four- storey building. Udeke did not survive the suicidal efforts, in spite of medical interventions made to rescue him. The other resident, however, survived after being stabilised and treated at the hospital.’’ the statement read  The commission stated that as a responsible law enforcement Agency, it contacted Udeke’s family with det...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has handed over a bank draft of N42,500,000 (Forty-two Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira) in favour of one Mrs. Margret Taye Odofin, a 70-year-old widow and retiree, recovered from her fraudulent account and investment officer, Mrs. Kehinde Olawale Yusuf, who worked in one of the new generation banks. The handover, which took place on Thursday, November 2025 was done in the Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Commission by its Acting director, Bawa Kaltungo on behalf of EFCC’s Executive Chairman, Ola Olukoyede. The widower, in a petition to the Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the EFCC in December 2024, had alleged that Mrs. Yusuf, being her account and investment officer , had between November 2020 and December, 2020, 1lured her into investing in some ponzi businesses with a promise of a quarterly return on the investment of N1,700,000 (One Million, Seven Hundred Thousand Naira), but unknown to her, the banker’s motive was so...

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday, November 6, assured the United States that his administration is firmly committed to defeating terr0rism across Nigeria. Speaking in Abuja, President Tinubu’s strong assurance was presented as an apparent response to security concerns raised by President Donald Trump. The Nigerian President emphasized that despite current political challenges, his government will consistently maintain engagement with its international partners. President Tinubu’s remarks followed the swearing-in of two new Ministers and a positive update on the economy from the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun. Minister Edun reported that the nation’s economy is witnessing progressive growth, specifically noting that Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 4.23 percent in the second quarter of 2025. This figure represents the highest quarterly growth recorded in a decade, outside of the post-COVID recovery period. Responding to...

The Nigerian Senate has moved closer to adopting clean energy transportation after a bill seeking to phase out petrol-powered cars and promote electric vehicles (EVs) scaled second reading on Tuesday. The proposed legislation, sponsored by Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, aims to provide the legal and policy framework for Nigeria’s transition from fossil fuel dependence to electric mobility. Kalu explained that the bill would help reduce carbon emissions, encourage local vehicle production, and align the country with global efforts toward sustainable transport. According to him, the transport sector contributes between 20 and 30 percent of Nigeria’s greenhouse gas emissions. “This bill seeks to establish a comprehensive legal and institutional framework to guide Nigeria’s gradual move from petrol-powered vehicles to cleaner, energy-efficient, and environmentally friendly alternatives,” he said. The bill also proposes creating a National Electric Vehicle Development and Promotion Cou...