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Bandits kidnap father of Zamfara Assembly Speaker, five others

byMohammed Babangida

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24 soldiers killed in Boko Haram attack in Chad

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Again, Nigeria Customs intercepts huge haul of pangolin scales

Water trickling into a human palm

Residents decry poor water supply, sanitation as cholera kills 295 in Jigawa, Kano

A man is being tested for COVID-19 in Nigeria [PHOTO: TW: @NCDCgov]

COVID-19: 3rd wave hits harder as Nigeria records highest daily infection in six months

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Top News

Governor Aminu Bello Masari

Insecurity: 10 Katsina LGAs under severe attack daily- Gov Masari tells COAS

Kemi Adeosun and a less than salutary public career, By ‘Sina Kawonise

NYSC Certificate Scam: Group asks court to order Kemi Adeosun’s arrest, prosecution

Andrew Ogbuja [Photo Credit: Frontline News]

Rape: Deceased minor, Ochanya, tells judge her ordeals in video clip

Tokyo Olympics: Nigeria’s Enekwechi who washed own jersey loses in shot put final

The selected athletes

Tokyo Olympics: Nigerian women unsuccessful in 4 x 100m relay

IPOB Protesters

115 people killed by Nigeria’s security forces in country’s Southeast – Report

Lagos railway line

FEC approves $11.17bn rail project to link all coastal cities

Kaduna Refinery

Nigerian govt to invest $2.76 billion in Dangote refinery, $1.5 billion in Warri, Kaduna refineries

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Late Mrs. Elizabeth Desmond Wilson

Wife of renowned journalism teacher, Des Wilson, to be buried Friday

National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)

UPDATED: COVID-19: 35 NYSC members test positive in Ogun camp

Global food prices fall for the second consecutive month in July

Authors, others converge for Soyinka @87

Authors, others converge for Soyinka @87

Motorcyclist used to illustrate the story.

Okada rider arrested for raping, killing passenger – Police

Abdul Samad Rabiu

Buhari felicitates BUA chairman at 61

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Special Reports

This is Fatima Adam, a displaced farmer from Marte Local Government Area working on her farmland close to Bakassi camp where she has been taking refuge for over four years

Headline Stories

SPECIAL REPORT: Distraught Borno farmers displaced by Boko Haram languish in IDP camps

Welcome to Kogi State Government House

Headline Stories

INVESTIGATION: Kogi farmers excluded from billions of naira ‘spent’ on COVID-19 recovery

Ms All-Denim receiving cash for documents that were not produced

Headline Stories

INVESTIGATION: How corrupt officials make millions daily at Nigeria’s prominent marriage registry

FLOODED DITCH ON AMAKOHIA FLYOVER

Headline Stories

SPECIAL REPORT: Imo road, flyovers cost N12 billion in 11 years but remain uncompleted

cross section of pregnant women at their antenatal clinic in Mabera

Investigation/Special Reports

COVID-19 Vaccination: Sokoto women discouraged by Kano meningitis experience

A woman prepares garri in Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River State. (Photo Credit: Ntiedo Ekott)

Headline Stories

SPECIAL REPORT: Despite huge spending over decades, Nigeria unable to produce enough cassava

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African Business Moguls win big in Forbes 2021 Awards organised by FIN International

African Business Moguls win big in Forbes 2021 Awards organised by FIN International

Jaiz Bank grows half year profit by over 71%

Ebenezer Onyeagwu, Zenith Bank CEO [Photo: Nigerian News Direct]

Zenith Bank GMD, Onyeagwu canvasses increased impact investing in Africa

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Features and Interviews

Aminu Masari,

Features And Interviews

INTERVIEW: Why bandits succeed with mass abductions in Northwest Nigeria – Katsina Governor’s Aide

byMohammed Babangida Mafara

President Muhammadu Buhari on arrival to London [PHOTO CREDIT: @TheAsoVilla]

Data & Infographics

TIMELINE: Buhari has spent 200 days in UK for treatment since assuming office

Marte on Google Map

Features And Interviews

Displaced by insurgents, residents of Borno community seek higher education in Maiduguri

byAl’amin Umar

Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ahmed Wase [PHOTO CREDIT: Hon Ahmed Idris Wase on Facebook]

Features And Interviews

ANALYSIS: Idris Wase: Nigeria’s Deputy Speaker has low tolerance for contrary views

byBakare Majeed

Mr Da'u-Aliyu

Features And Interviews

INTERVIEW: What we’re doing to stop perennial floods in Kano, Jigawa, Bauchi – Official

byAbubakar Ahmadu Maishanu

Pictures of Adejoroh Adeogun, House of Representatives deputy chairman, committee on national security and intelligence.

Features And Interviews

INTERVIEW: Why Executive officials ignore invitation by National Assembly – Lawmaker

byBakare Majeed

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Business

News Reports

Appoints Emmanuel Onokpasa

NOVA Merchant Bank appoints Emmanuel Onokpasa as Executive Director

Naira and Dollars

Eurobonds: Nigerian govt appoints JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, others as managers

Floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Nigerian stocks touch 53-day high amid depressed trading

Naira and Dollars

Naira maintains gain at black market

Women jubilating

Women make only 6.8% of Nigeria’s extractive sector workforce

Financial Inclusion

FILE: A cross section of Nigerian children

Financial Inclusion: How Nigerian banks woo children

Kuda Bank raises $55 million at $500 million valuation

INTERVIEW: Empowering women key to curbing insecurity, poverty – Activist

INTERVIEW: Empowering women key to curbing insecurity, poverty – Activist

UBA Global Headquarter [PHOTO CREDIT: United Bank for Africa Plc]

UBA, fintech firm Layer partner to boost financial services

POS [Photo Credit: Africana Entrepreneur]

Nigeria misses financial inclusion target

Analysis & Data

L-R: Muhammed Babajika, Director, Licensing & Authorisation; Oluwatoyin Asaju, Director, Spectrum Administration; Josephine Amuwa, Director, Legal & Regulatory Services; Salman Abdulazeez, Member, Board of Commissioners; Ubale Maska, Executive Commissioner, Technical Services; Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer; Prof. Adeolu Akande, Chairman, Board of Commissioners; Adeleke Adewolu, Executive Commissioner, Stakeholder Management; Aliyu Shuaibu, Secretary, Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) and Yakubu Gontor, Director, Financial Services, all of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), at the public inquiry on two regulatory instruments held in Abuja on Thursday, July 29, 2021.

Revised AOL, spectrum pricing regulations will strengthen telecoms market — Danbatta

Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta. [PHOTO CREDIT: Official Twitter handle of NCC]

NCC surpasses revenue projection, posts N150bn spectrum fee in 5 months

Fastly global internet outage: why did so many sites go down — and what is a CDN, anyway?

Fastly global internet outage: why did so many sites go down — and what is a CDN, anyway?

Lanre Jaiyeola, Managing Director, Honeywell Flour Mills, Plc.,

Honeywell Flour reports 36% revenue growth in year 2021 results

Nigerian Economy: How to sustain growth after recession — Experts

Nigerian Economy: How to sustain growth after recession — Experts

Regional

South West

Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court [PHOTO CREDIT: Independent Newspapers Nigeria]

Lagos govt approves ‘courts for environmental offences’

Alleged Gang-rape: Court orders ex-Babcock university students to open defence

National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)

UPDATED: COVID-19: 35 NYSC members test positive in Ogun camp

Nigerian Police officers on duty [Photo credit: Today.ng]

‘Notorious killer cultist’ arrested in Lagos

South South

Motorcyclist used to illustrate the story.

Okada rider arrested for raping, killing passenger – Police

Mr Eric Akpan, Chairman, Nsit Ibom Local Government Council, Akwa Ibom State

‘I can’t continue to bear title without salary,’ council official says in resignation

#EndSARS and the youth

Akwa Ibom EndSARS recommendations shrouded in secrecy, leaves room for suppression – Group

Mr Ray Ekpu, veteran Nigerian journalist

N500, 000 investigative journalism prize announced in Ray Ekpu’s honour

South East

IPOB Protesters

115 people killed by Nigeria’s security forces in country’s Southeast – Report

Strike: ESUTH resident doctors list 10 demands

Strike: ESUTH resident doctors list 10 demands

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State (6th left) with his deputy, Hon. Mrs. Cecilia Ezeilo (5th left), Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Edward Ubosi (4th left), member representing Aninri Constituency, Hon. Chinedu Otaka (middle), Deputy Chief of Staff to the Governor, Prof. Malachy Okwueze (2nd right), Commissioner for Education, Prof. Uche Eze (3rd left), his Information counterpart, Nnanyelugo Chidi Aroh (right), Enugu-born inventor of two aircraft, Master Emmanuel Maduabuchi Chukwu (6th right), Anambra-born inventor of MP3 radio set, Master Chukwuebuka Udoye (3rd right), and others, when the governor received the talented young students, at the Government House, Enugu, yesterday.

Ugwuanyi offers scholarships to Enugu, Anambra-born young inventors

Governor Dave Umahi [PHOTO CREDIT: @DavidNwezeUmahi2]

APC caretaker committee legal, constitutional – Gov Umahi

North West

Governor Aminu Bello Masari

Insecurity: 10 Katsina LGAs under severe attack daily- Gov Masari tells COAS

Nigeria Police officers

Bandits kidnap father of Zamfara Assembly Speaker, five others

Water trickling into a human palm

Residents decry poor water supply, sanitation as cholera kills 295 in Jigawa, Kano

INTERVIEW: Why bandits succeed with mass abductions in Northwest Nigeria – Katsina Governor’s Aide

North East

24 soldiers killed in Boko Haram attack in Chad

Boko Haram terrorists and their family surrender to Nigerian troops CREDIT: Nigerian Army

Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists surrender to Nigerian troops – Official

Emir of Muri [Photo Credit: Daily Trust]

Eviction Threat: Miyetti Allah vows to fish out criminal cattle herders in Taraba

Marte on Google Map

Displaced by insurgents, residents of Borno community seek higher education in Maiduguri

North Central

Andrew Ogbuja [Photo Credit: Frontline News]

Rape: Deceased minor, Ochanya, tells judge her ordeals in video clip

Nigerian Police officers on duty [Photo credit: Today.ng]

Police arrest three kidnap suspects in Benue – Official

Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau, presiding over an emergency state security meeting , on Monday at Government House Jos

Plateau Attacks: 17 killed, 85 buildings burnt – Police

Plateau state on map

Killings going on repeatedly in Plateau, senator says

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International

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Investigations

The gate of the Hadejia Specialist Hospital still under construction

SPECIAL REPORT: Residents groan as Jigawa govt fails to complete N1.8 billion hospital

Nets not to be sold bought in Ebonyi state at N2500.

World Malaria Day: How corruption hinders Nigeria’s efforts to eradicate malaria

A Sagbo Kodji man takes an early morning wash using well water. Because well water is not clean, it has to be left for the dirt in it to settle before it can be used. [PHOTO CREDIT: Nengi Nelson]

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Lagos State Isolation centre Onikan [PHOTO CREDIT: The Africa Report.com]

Africa CDC raises alarm over continent’s infectious diseases outbreaks

World Hepatitis Day [Photo Credit: iStock]

World Hepatitis Day 2021: Nigeria dallies as world races to end disease by 2030

Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa

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NCDC director of Prevention Programmes and Knowledge Management, Chinwe Ochu

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Features

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