US military drafts airstrike plans for Nigeria after Trump threat – Report

US President Donald Trump speaks while visiting federal troops at the US Park Police Anacostia operations facility in Washington, DC, on August 21, 2025. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP The United States military has reportedly drawn up contingency plans for potential airstrikes in Nigeria following an order from President Donald Trump directing the Pentagon […]

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APC commends Aiyedatiwa for attracting $50b refinery, Free Trade Zone projects

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Ondo State Chapter, has commended Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa for attracting the multi-million refinery and Free Trade Zone projects to the state. It praised his “visionary leadership and proactive efforts that led to the signing of a landmark investment deal with Backbone Infrastructure Nigeria Limited (BINL) for the establishment of a […]

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FG to rejig Nigeria’s education system

Aiyedatiwa pledges improved teachers welfare The Federal Government has announced its plan to reposition the nation’s education system through digital innovation, data management and professional teacher development. It announced the plan through the Education minister, Dr. Olatunji Alausa, at the 69th National Council on Education (NCE) meeting on Wednesday in Akure the Ondo State capital. […]

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Adeleke says PDP crisis is family affair, sues for calm

By John Dike, Osogbo Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has urged members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to remain calm in the face of the ongoing crisis within the party at the national level describing it as a family affair. In a statement by his Spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, he noted that stakeholders within […]

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NIS to introduce emergency passport for Nigerians abroad

The Nigeria Immigration Service has announced plans to introduce a Single Travel Emergency Passport, a new biometric travel document designed to help Nigerians abroad whose passports are expired, lost, or stolen return home securely and verifiably. The Comptroller-General of Immigration, Kemi Nanna Nandap, disclosed this during the Joint Thematic Meeting of the Khartoum, Rabat, and […]

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2026: Osun Muslim leaders demand equity, reject calls for Christian Governor

By John Dike, Osogbo Muslim clerics and community leaders in Osun State, under the aegis of the Concerned Muslim Stakeholders and the League of Alfas, have condemned recent calls by some leaders of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) that the next governor of the state in 2026 […]

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Ondo, investors seal $50bn refinery, free trade zone deal

Former Senate President Ken Nnamani, and Ondo State Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa Aiyedatiwa meets infrastructure team, local, foreign partners Joint Venture projects to boost economy, create thousands of jobs Ondo State Government has wrapped up  a $50 billion investment agreement with an international consortium under the Sunshine Infrastructure Joint Venture (JV) to position the state as […]

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Group asks police to probe self-styled Modakeke monarch

I cause no disturbance, community attacked me – Obawale By John Dike, Osogbo A socio-cultural group, Yoruba Socio-cultural Pathfinder (YSP), has called on traditional rulers across Yorubaland to condemn what it described as a “brazen cultural heresy” allegedly being perpetrated by one Adeyinka Adeshina Obawale, who is parading himself as a monarch in Modakeke, Osun […]

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