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  PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that hundreds of angry youths, on Thursday, protested the killing of the entertainer, popularly known as Stone, allegedly by operatives of the Anti-Cultism Section of the police in Enugu State. The police in Enugu State have confirmed that operatives of the Anti-Cultism Section of the Violent Crime Response Unit indeed shot a popular entertainer, Izuchukwu …

Any campaign that involves Donald Trump is bound to get pretty ugly. The 2024 campaign was marred by the now-president and now-Vice President JD Vance falsely claiming Haitian migrants in Ohio were eating people’s pets. But the 2026 campaign is getting really ugly — especially on the Republican side. Morality aside, the question is whether that ugliness is a sign …

  Across the country, alumni associations are increasingly returning to their former schools with more than memories of their schooldays. They are arriving with funds to renovate classrooms, construct buildings, provide desks, equip laboratories and libraries, install solar power, rehabilitate toilets, sink boreholes, award scholarships and support students whose families struggle to meet educational expenses. For many schools, these interventions …

  Federal prosecutors used the name matching her ex-husband’s in a motion tied to the immigration fraud investigation Rep. Ilhan Omar told Fox News Digital that her “real name” is “Ilhan Abdullahi Omar” after a federal court filing identified the congresswoman by a last name matching that of her ex-husband, whom reports have alleged is her brother. “Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, …

  The council noted instead that “a revised date and arrangement will be communicated” at a later time. The 2026 France-Nigeria Business Forum, scheduled for next Thursday, has been postponed after French President Emmanuel Macron cancelled his visit to Nigeria. The France-Nigeria Business Council sent an email notifying participants of the postponement on Saturday morning. The email, seen by PREMIUM …

  Mr Pate said 21 states had already updated their Ebola response plans, while the remaining 15 states are expected to expedite the establishment of appropriate preparedness and response mechanisms. The federal government has urged 15 states to speed up preparedness as Nigeria steps up measures to contain the country’s first confirmed imported case of Ebola disease. The Coordinating Minister …

Nigeria’s First Lady, Remi Tinubu, says she hopes to leave the Presidential Villa in 2031 to a country she can enjoy as a woman in her 70s. She spoke on Friday while inaugurating the Abuja headquarters of the PBAT Door-to-Door Movement, a grassroots group mobilising support for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election in 2027. “I want to leave Aso Rock, in …

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine and Russia have signaled their willingness to resume U.S.-brokered peace talks and are backing a humanitarian mission led by First Lady Melania Trump. But deep disagreements over territory and security guarantees that re-emerged this week underscore obstacles to ending the war. The new diplomatic push comes after more than 4½ years of fighting, bringing with …

The World Health Organization (WHO) says Ebola disease caused by the Bundibugyo virus has spread across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Kenya and Nigeria, requiring strengthened regional surveillance and coordinated response efforts.Nigerian news analysis The organisation said in a statement that as of Oct. 20, the DRC had recorded 9,704 confirmed cases and 4,687 deaths, representing a crude …

  Lethal plotting against Americans reached ‘advanced stages’ in the Middle East and other countries, DNI Jay Clayton warned Iran ramps up efforts to target US personnel overseas, intelligence memo reveals Iran has “substantially increased” efforts to target U.S. personnel abroad, with plots to kill Americans reaching “advanced stages” in the Middle East and other countries, according to an intelligence …