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  Niger State has constituted a committee to investigate the deaths of 37 suspected illegal miners in NSCDC custody and ordered autopsies to establish the cause. The Niger State Government has constituted a committee of inquiry to determine the cause of the deaths of 37 suspected illegal miners in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has approved visas for top Iranian officials, including the president and foreign minister, to attend next week’s U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting in New York even as the two countries are locked in a stalemated war. The State Department said Thursday that it had approved visas for Iran’s “core delegation,” along with essential staffers …

  According to him, his detention involved being handcuffed, leg-chained and blindfolded, while he was initially taken away wearing only his boxer shorts and singlet. A Nigerian Army corporal, Momoh Audu, told a court martial on Tuesday that he was detained underground for months following his arrest over an alleged plot to overthrow President Bola Tinubu, and that investigators coerced …

Thirty-year-old Bitrus Nwalsu was recently spotted manoeuvring a locally-fabricated wheelchair through the heavy traffic of the busy Shafa Roundabout. He struggled cautiously to cross, a daily battle made necessary by the complete absence of accessible pedestrian infrastructure. Nwalsu graduated in 2024 from the Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic (ATAP), Bauchi, where he studied Business Administration. An indigene of Bauchi State, he …

UN human rights experts say there are reasonable grounds to believe the US committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran that killed at least 177 civilians. A new report by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran said February’s missile strikes on a primary school in Minab and a sports complex in Lamerd constituted indiscriminate attacks causing civilian deaths …

Some residents of Ologbo in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo on Thursday, commended Gov. Monday Okpebholo for the ongoing 100-megawatt (MW) power project and industrial park cited in the community. The residents gave the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin. They said the project would boost electricity supply, attract investors, create jobs …

Retired Maj.-Gen. Nnaemeka Maduegbunam, former Director-General of the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON), has urged Nigeria to prioritise indigenous technology to achieve self-reliance in defence production. Maduegbunam made the call on Thursday, at the public presentation of his book, “We Can Do It – Towards Nigeria’s Self-Reliance in Science and Technology,” in Abuja. He said the revitalisation of DICON …

The Obidient and kwankwaso Movement OK Movement) has inaugurated its Presidential Campaign Council for the 2027 general elections, charging members to take its message to Nigerians across the country. The National Secretary of the movement, Saadatu Sani, gave the charge in a congratulatory message to members of the newly constituted council made available to newsmen on Thursday in Abuja. Sani …

Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested a suspected kidnapper, Sunday Irabor, at a hotel near Oluku Market, Benin City. The suspect was arrested in a raid that followed an actionable intelligence received by operatives of the Ekiadolor Division at about 1pm on September 8, 2026. ASP Eno Ikoedem, spokesperson for Edo Police Command confirmed that a search …

The Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR) says it will activate its conflict telephony system to track and report electoral and political violence incidents during Nigeria’s 2027 general elections. The Director-General of IPCR, Dr Joseph Ochogwu, disclosed this in a sideline interview with newsmen at a world media briefing to usher in the 2026 International Day of Peace on …