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The Nigerian Army says sustained intelligence-led operations and the dismantling of a terrorist network culminated in the “unconditional release” of 44 pupils and teachers abducted from three schools in the Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State. PREMIUM TIMES reported that terrorists invaded the schools—Baptist Nursery and Primary School (Yawota), Community High School (Ahoro-Esinele) and L.A. Primary School (Ahoro-Esinele)—on 15 …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Donald Trump threatened Iran on Saturday after the funeral of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei saw open calls for the U.S. leader’s killing, further underlining the tensions gripping the Middle East as an interim deal to end the war buckles under repeated crossfire in the region. Trump made the comments on his Truth …

  From unfinished homes to shop compartments, this report explores how unequal living conditions influence early childhood development and deepen inequalities among children in a community in Abuja. Eight-year-old Marvellous gripped a worn pencil tightly as she wrote on a single sheet of paper, kneeling on the bare concrete floor of an unfinished compound in Karshi, a satellite community on …

  The mud structure, which currently serves a population of 4000 residents and nine surrounding villages, is the place where suspects arrested for banditry, kidnapping, and armed robbery, are held before their transfer to larger police divisions. A dilapidated, mud-built police outpost in Garunguɗinya, Babura Local Government Area of Jigawa State, is currently calling for attention as infrastructural deficit plagues …

The US wants Iran to publicly state that the Strait of Hormuz is open and to pledge to stop firing on commercial ships as part of negotiations due to be held in Oman on Saturday. US media cited unnamed officials as saying Tehran had privately acknowledged to President Donald Trump’s advisers that the shooting at ships was a mistake, though …

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on Friday warned that international aid to education is declining sharply. The organisation said the rising debt service payments are increasingly squeezing education budgets in many developing countries. New research released by UNESCO at the Transforming Education Summit +4 (TES+4) shows that education is receiving a shrinking share of global development …

Port Harcourt: Gov. Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers has on Friday presented the 2026 appropriation bill of N1.85 trillion to the Rivers State House of Assembly. The bill, tagged ”Budget of Resilience for Growth and Development.” Fubara said that the proposed total operating revenue for 2026 was projected to increase by 24.49 per cent over the 2025 adjusted budget projections. He …

The Accord Party in Lagos State has rejected the judgment of the Lagos State High Court dismissing its suit challenging the legality of nomination forms prescribed by the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC). The Lagos State Chairman of the Accord Party, Mr Dele Oladeji, on Friday described the judgment as a betrayal of public confidence in the judiciary and …

Inspector-General of Police Tunji Disu says State Police will deepen community policing and improve intelligence gathering. Disu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York on Friday that the initiative would boost community-based policing and improve intelligence gathering. He, however, said implementation would involve extensive consultations, comparative studies and capacity building before full operationalisation. “We are still at …

The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, on Friday announced that all the pupils and teachers kidnapped in Oriire, Oyo State, had been rescued by security agencies, ending a 56-day ordeal that gripped the nation. Onanuga disclosed this in a post on his X handle, saying, “Finally, all the kidnapped pupils and teachers in …