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Kemi Nandap of the Immigration Service and Sylvester Nwakuche of the Correctional Service get 18 more months. For Nandap, it is a second extension in under two years.
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The first NUCAP tower is up in Bende, Abia. The FG says 3,700 towers will connect about 20 million people with no signal. Here is who pays, what it means and how the targets have moved.
The Federal Government has commissioned the first tower of its 3,700-tower rural telecoms project, the Nigeria Universal Communication Access Project (NUCAP), in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State on Friday, 16 October 2026. The Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, says the project will bring phone and internet signal to nearly 20 million Nigerians who now…
Poland beat Nigeria 2-1 in Group B on Saturday. Substitute Oluebube Umejiaku scored for the Flamingos, who face Puerto Rico on Tuesday needing a result.
Nigeria's Flamingos lost 2-1 to Poland in their opening game at the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Rabat, Morocco, on Saturday, 17 October 2026. Wiktoria Skrzypczak scored a first-half penalty and Natalia Skrok added a second after the hour before substitute Oluebube Umejiaku pulled one back, according to FIFA's official match record. Why it matters The result leaves Akeem…
AFRIFF set out to talk about technology. Then the films came in, and founder Chioma Ude found a second answer to where African cinema is heading.
The festival went looking for the future in machines. The films it chose pointed somewhere else. When the Africa International Film Festival settled on "Frames of the Future: Africa's Creative Intelligence" as the theme of its 15th edition, the plan looked just as settled. Panels on technology. Workshops on artificial intelligence. A week in Lagos built around the tools that…
Biodun Oyebanji has begun a second term as Ekiti governor, a first for the state since 1996. What he promised, what Tinubu's message said and what comes next.
Governor Biodun Oyebanji was sworn in for a second four-year term in Ado-Ekiti on Friday, 16 October 2026, becoming the first Ekiti governor to be re-elected and go straight into a second term since the state was created in 1996. The Chief Judge of Ekiti State, Justice Lekan Ogunmoye, administered the oath of office to Oyebanji and his deputy, Monisade…
The NLC says the law requires minimum wage talks to start by 17 October. The FG says the ₦70,000 wage is not due for review until 1 June 2027. Here is what the row means for you.
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says negotiations on a new national minimum wage should legally begin by Saturday, 17 October 2026. The Federal Government says the ₦70,000 wage is not due for review until 1 June 2027 and that starting now would be premature. The two sides set out their positions in letters this week. The Minister of Labour and…
The Onitsha-Asaba bridge is open again after repairs that ran 24 days past schedule, with new CCTV, solar lights, emergency turnarounds and a dredging ban nearby.
The First Niger Bridge between Onitsha in Anambra State and Asaba in Delta State is open to traffic again. The Minister of Works, David Umahi, declared it open on Thursday, 15 October 2026, after 38 days of emergency repairs. The Federal Ministry of Works shut the bridge on Monday, 7 September for what it said would be two weeks of…
Edo, Osun, Oyo, Rivers and Zamfara have approved the state police amendment, which needs 24 states, as Gbajabiamila says the policing bill is 90% ready.
The constitutional amendment that would let Nigeria's states set up their own police forces has been approved by five of the 36 state Houses of Assembly, far short of the 24 it needs, Premium Times and Blueprint reported on Friday, 16 October 2026. The five are Edo, Osun, Oyo, Rivers and Zamfara. It came a day after Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief…
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