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Nuhu Ribadu National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu has not resigned, a senior Presidency source said, dismissing reports linking his exit to the creation of the new Office of the Special Adviser on National Security. The source, quoted by PRNigeria on Monday, said the appointment of retired Major General Adeyinka Famadewa to the new role was aimed at strengthening security coordination, …

Jackson Enabodje is an SS3 student at Sound City College, Ogun State, preparing for his WAEC exams like thousands of teenagers across Nigeria. READ ALSO: Olawore Emmanuel scores Umeå FC’s first professional goal in Sweden But once he steps onto the pitch at the Legacy Pitch in Lagos for Nationwide League One matches, he transforms into one of the most …

Monrovia, May 11, 2026 — A fifteen-member jury, on Friday, May 8, acquitted former Finance and Development Planning Minister Samuel D. Tweah of all charges in the high-profile economic sabotage case tied to an alleged US$6.4 million scheme. The verdict cleared Tweah of economic sabotage, theft of property, money laundering, criminal conspiracy and criminal facilitation. The case, prosecutors alleged, involved …

Governor Monday Okpebholo has strongly condemned the daytime killing of an unidentified youth by suspected gunmen at the main gate of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) on Sunday, describing it as an attack on human dignity and a grave threat to public safety. In a statement released on Monday by his Press Secretary, Dr. Patrick Ebojele, Governor Okpebholo expressed deep …

The New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP) has extended the purchase window for 2027 election candidacy forms by one week. The party, in its initial schedule, had set May 10 as the deadline for selling its nomination forms. The party’s Secretary General, Comrade Ogini Olaposi, announced the latest directive on Monday in Lagos. Olaposi said the extension followed a directive from …