Search-and-rescue operation underway after ATR-42 aircraft disappears from radar en route from Benin to Lagos The aircraft, identified by tail number NGR 931, was on a routine flight from Benin, Edo State, to Lagos when contact was lost on Monday, October 5. According to information released by Aviation and Aerospace Development Minister Festus Keyamo, air
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Wednesday morning, Ojota. The generator hum, the smell of fried akara from the roadside stall, and a driver named David scrolling his phone the way he’s scrolled it every morning for six years — waiting for the ping. Nothing comes. Instead, an email. Polite. Corporate. Final. He bought that Camry specifically to hustle for Uber.
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The strength of any society governed by the rule of law rests substantially on the integrity of the institutions entrusted with making, interpreting and enforcing the law. Legislatures establish the legal framework for public life; law-enforcement and security agencies are responsible for maintaining order and ensuring compliance; the judiciary provides interpretation and adjudication. Together, these
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A hospital without electricity is not merely an institution experiencing an inconvenience. It is a facility standing at the edge of a humanitarian emergency. When power fails, ventilators become vulnerable, operating theatres are disrupted, oxygen systems face uncertainty, laboratories are compromised and medicines requiring refrigeration are placed at risk. In such circumstances, electricity is not
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FTSE Russell’s decision to restore Nigeria to Frontier Market status is an important signal of progress. But it is not a declaration of economic victory. The country has fixed some of its financial plumbing; it must now prove that the system can work under pressure—and, more importantly, that economic recovery can reach beyond the market.
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Veteran Yoruba actor and filmmaker Taiwo Hassan, popularly known as Ogogo, has died at the age of 66, bringing to a close a career that spanned almost four decades and left an enduring imprint on Nigeria’s Yoruba-language film industry. Hassan died on Sunday, August 23, 2026, after a battle with stage-four cancer. His daughter, Kira
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Washington and Tehran dig in as shipping collapses through the strategic waterway and Iran signals readiness for a prolonged confrontation WASHINGTON/TEHRAN — Prospects for a diplomatic breakthrough between the United States and Iran have dimmed further after President Donald Trump said Washington had paused negotiations with Tehran, while Iranian officials signalled that the country could
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President combines pressure over attacks on African migrants with a new framework for coordinated regulation of Nigeria’s digital-asset sector ABUJA — President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called for a united African response to the renewed xenophobic attacks targeting Nigerians and other African nationals in South Africa, while simultaneously moving to strengthen Nigeria’s regulatory framework for
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Refinery lifts gantry price to ₦1,185 per litre, underscoring the limits of local refining as global oil prices climb LAGOS — Dangote Petroleum Refinery has raised the price of petrol by ₦20 per litre, reversing a price cut announced barely two weeks ago as rising international crude prices begin to filter through Nigeria’s domestic fuel
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Defections and endorsements across the Southwest are strengthening the President’s re-election prospects, but translating elite alliances into votes remains the real test ABUJA — President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 2027 re-election campaign is gaining political momentum as opposition figures and structures in key Southwest states increasingly align themselves with the incumbent, exposing growing fractures within the
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