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The National Emergency Management Agency has said 673,350 people were affected by flooding across 134 local government areas in 28 states as of October 20, 2026, with 245 deaths recorded.The agency also disclosed that 214,997 people had been displaced, calling for stronger inter-agency coordination and improved preparedness ahead of the anticipated 2026/2027 El Niño phenomenon.According to a statement by NEMA on Friday, the figures were presented by ...

The Minister of Defence, Gen. Christopher Musa (retd.), has pledged that Nigerian troops who died during peacekeeping missions in Liberia and Sierra Leone under the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group will not be forgotten.Musa gave the assurance when he received a delegation of ECOMOG veterans, led by Maj. Gen. Ohifeme Ejimai (retd.), at the Ministry of Defence headquarters in Abuja.This was contained in a statement on Friday by the ...

A spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Alwan Hassan, has alleged that some ministers pay billions of naira to secure appointments and subsequently seek to recover the money.Hassan made the allegation during an interview on Arise News on Thursday, while defending President Bola Tinubu’s direct oversight of government revenue and expenditure.“The way Asiwaju is hands-on on the expenditure of our revenue is ...

By Adewumi OmoboadeFormer Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has demanded the immediate publication of the preliminary voters’ register, warning that the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission to display the list online could undermine confidence in the 2027 general election. Atiku, in a statement on ...

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The Chairman of the Nigerian Tertiary Education and Research Analysis Committee, Emeritus Professor Peter Okebukola, said Nigerian universities are on course to achieve record-breaking performances in global rankings from 2027, driven by increased competition among institutions, rising research citations and a new national ranking framework.According to a statement issued on Thursday, Okebukola made the projection at the weekly meeting of NiTERAC and Directors of Academic Pl...