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The Network of Digital Newspaper Editors (NDNE) has commended the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, for what it described as a bold and transformational push in the infrastructural development of the nation’s capital city. In a period of one month, the FCT administration under Barrister Wike, alongside Minister of State, Dr. Mariya Mahmoud, has commissioned 17 …

Prof. Charles Soludo, the Governor of Anambra State, has publicly acknowledged that the overwhelming majority of criminals behind violence and insecurity in Nigeria’s South-East are of Igbo origin—not Fulani, as widely claimed. He made this disclosure during a town hall meeting with Anambra indigenes in Maryland, USA, stressing that 99.9 percent of those arrested for terrorism, kidnapping, and related crimes …

A male student of Material and Metallurgical Engineering Department at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) has been arrested by the officers of Enugu State Police Command for the alleged murder of a female student. The command’s spokesman, SP Daniel Ndukwe, disclosed this via a statement on Monday, July 7, 2025. Ndukwe said the command, following an intelligence-led investigation, arrested …

The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin, has passed on Reports noted that Olakulehin, who ascended the throne in July 2024, died in the early hours of Monday, July 7, 2025. The monarch had only spent a year on the throne. The demise of Oba Olakulehin, born on July 5, 1935, comes two days after celebrating his 90th birthday.

The Network of Digital Newspaper Editors has called on the National Assembly to classify kidnapping as an act of terrorism and make it a capital offence under Nigerian law. In a statement issued after their monthly meeting, the editors urged federal lawmakers to take advantage of the ongoing constitutional review process to enact stringent laws that reflect the gravity of …