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Over the weekend, a proposal by a veteran bureaucrat, Dr Goke Adegoroye, bordering on civil service reforms, trended. Adegoroye, former Director General of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) and National Publicity Secretary of the Retired Council of Federal Permanent Secretaries (CORFEPS), in an open letter to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was widely reported to have highlighted that the …

Here are the top stories from across the country 1. Borno, Zamfara lead the way where Nigeria recorded 792 deaths due to insecurity in one month A report from SARI Global, a risk intelligence and security analysis firm specializing in providing operational data, climate intelligence and crisis management support to organizations working in the world’s most volatile environments, said at …

The Companion, an association of Muslim businessmen and professions, has urged Nigerians not to develop a false sense of security following the release of the kidnapped Oriiré 44, adding that the development should instead spur greater vigilance against insecurity. In a statement released on Monday and signed by its national emir, Imam Nojeem Jimoh, together with publicity secretary, Prof. Tunde …

A Magistrates Court in Awka, Anambra State has remanded online publisher and blogger Ejike Ofoegbu for allegedly defamatory publications implicating Governor Chukwuma Soludo and members of his family. Ofoegbu, owner of Igbo Times Magazine and INews, was brought to court on charges bordering on identity theft, defamation and cyberstalking. Chief Magistrate CO Ezekwere ordered that the case file be forwarded …

As the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, called for immediate de-escalation following reports of Saudi Arabian airstrikes and the landing of an Iranian plane in the country, an emergency Security Council meeting at 15:00 (local time) on Monday heard a briefing from top officials on the current humanitarian and political situation.

The president of the UN’s flagship body ECOSOC, Lok Bahadur Thapa, reminded the international community on Monday that no country can achieve sustainable development alone, and that political will and momentum are needed to achieve the SDGs by 2030. PBB photo/Eskinder Debebe Lok Bahadur Thapa, President of the UN Economic and Social Council, delivered a speech at the Ministerial Segment …

Abayomi Ademola Celtic manager Martin O’Neill has confirmed that the Scottish champions have made a new contract offer to Kelechi Iheanacho as negotiations continue over the Nigerian striker’s future at the club. Iheanacho became a free agent after his previous contract expired at the end of June, with Celtic unable to activate the one-year extension clause in his contract. Despite …

The Federal High Court in Sokoto, on Monday, adjourned to July 22, 2026 for hearing in the suit filed before it by one Alhaji Umar Faruk challenging the legality of the current leadership of the party, after a heated debate among senior lawyers. The debate came to the fore when the presiding judge, Justice Ahmad Mahmud Gama, ruled in an …

The warning came in a new form report by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), published on Sunday, stated that child food and nutritional insecurity is one of the main causes of malnutrition in the country. Wasting is the most immediately visible and life-threatening form of malnutritionand is caused by recent food shortages, disease, or both. Children suffering from this condition …