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OPINION: Break Nigeria Now!
The Will
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August 25, 2025
August 25, (THEWILL) — Nigeria should be divided like the fingers but united like the fist.—Nnamdi Azikiwe One does not eat “I almost” in a stew. (What one missed narrowly, one cannot enjoy at all) Is Nigeria truly a country—or better still, is it...
Crisis hits Awka Diocese of Anglican Church over land sales
The Sun Nigeria
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August 24, 2025
Archbishop, members trade blame The Diocese of Awka (Anglican Communion) in Anambra State is embroiled in a controversy over land sales, with the Archbishop of the Province of the Niger, His Grace Rev Alexander Chibuzor Ibezim, in the eye of the...
How Russia is quietly trying to win over the world
BBC
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August 24, 2025
Juliana GragnaniEditor, BBC Global Disinformation Unit Maria KorenyukBBC Global Disinformation Unit ShareSave Listen to Juliana read this article Javier Gallardo likes to start his morning watching a classical music programme on television - it is...
PDP Governors react to ADC comment on their Zamfara meeting
Eagle Online
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August 25, 2025
The Peoples’ Democratic Party Governors Forum (PDP-GF) has strongly condemned the comment made by the African Democratic Congress (ADC) regarding its meeting on Saturday in Gusau, Zamfara State. In a statement by its Director-General, Dr. Emmanuel...
Red Cross Donates To Mokwa Flood Victims
Leadership
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August 24, 2025
The Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS) has built 47 shelters with boreholes, toilets and bathrooms to victims of the recent flood disaster in Mokwa, Niger State. The organisation has also distributed 500 dignity kits to women and girls of...
Nigerian air force pushes back jihadists on Cameroonian border
Modern Ghana
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Nigeria's air force said it has killed at least 35 jihadists who had gathered near the border with Cameroon to plan an attack on ground troops. The army is battling an ongoing insurgency in the northwest of the country which has left tens of...
Washington makes military aid overtures to Sahel juntas
Goldsboro News-Argus - North Carolina
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Under President Donald Trump the United States has reset relations with west Africa's military leaders on a mutual back-scratching basis, bartering help fighting jihadists for the Sahel region's mining riches, experts say. While Joe Biden was in...
Killings: PDP governors fault ADC attack on its Saturday meeting
Peoples Gazette
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August 25, 2025
The Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum has described as irresponsible the comment by the African Democratic Congress regarding its meeting on Saturday in Gusau, Zamfara. The forum, in a statement by its director-general, Emmanuel Agbo, said...
PDP Govs Defend Zamfara Meeting, Knocks ADC
New Telegraph
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August 25, 2025
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum on Monday defended its meeting held in Zamfara State on Saturday, faulting the African Democratic Congress (ADC) for what it described as an attempt to politicise human lives. New Telegraph...
In Africa, Russia is swapping a ruthless paramilitary for a replica it can control. What’s Putin’s game plan?
KMIZ ABC 17 - Missouri
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August 25, 2025
By Nimi Princewill, CNN Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) — Wagner, a feared Russian mercenary group that is notorious for staging a failed mutiny against Moscow and accused of committing serious abuses against civilians in Africa, is being replaced on the...
Killings: PDP-GF faults ADC attack on its Saturday’s meeting
News Diary Online
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August 25, 2025
By Emmanuel Oloniruha The People’s Democratic Party Governors Forum (PDP-GF) has described as irresponsible, the comment by the African Democratic Congress (ADC) about its Saturday meeting in Gusau, Zamfara. The forum in a statement by its...
Nigeria's military says its airstrikes killed 35 Islamic militants in Borno state
The Independent
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August 23, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
APC and politics of legislative by-election victories
The Sun Nigeria
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August 25, 2025
From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja The electrifying euphoria and the bile that have trailed the recently concluded legislative bye-elections across 12 states of the federation, have become synonymous with killing an ant with a sledgehammer. For the ruling...
All Progressives Congress Faces Internal Rift Over Tinubu's Muslim-Muslim Ticket as 2027 Election Looms
Alexa.ng
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August 25, 2025
ABUJA, Nigeria – August 25, 2025 – As Nigeria’s political landscape heats up in anticipation of the 2027 presidential election, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is grappling with a deepening internal divide over its electoral strategy,...
Excitement as Hotel Presidential bounces to life again
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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August 24, 2025
After 15 years of being moribund, the famous Hotel Presidential in Enugu is bubbling again, thanks to the vision of Gov Peter Mbah. CHUKS NWEZE reports that since it was reopened, accolades have been pouring in for the governor. On Thursday,...
PDP govs defend Zamfara meeting, accuse ADC of politicising insecurity
Punch
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August 25, 2025
The Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum has defended its meeting held in Zamfara State on Saturday, faulting the African Democratic Congress for what it described as an attempt to politicise human lives instead of showing empathy to victims...
Presidential monologue (70): Tinted glass permit and war against terror
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 24, 2025
I address two governance issues, namely, the Tinted Glass Permit and the war against terrorists. This task is undertaken for your information, enlightenment, and to help burnish the image of your administration if acted upon. First is the tinted...
ANALYSIS: Can new ECOWAS leadership revive/sustain bloc?
Premium Times
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August 23, 2025
With seven heads of state in attendance, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday, 22 June, held its 67th summit of the Authority of the Heads of State and Government, ushering in a new leadership. After serving two tenures...
Beyond African Union Governance, Peace
This Day
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August 24, 2025
and Security Frameworks: Sorrow and Fear Bola A. Akinterinwa The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has set up a High-level Panel of Eminent Experts to conduct a Comprehensive Review of the African Union...
Oyewumi family cautions Balogun over unguided utterances
Eagle Online
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August 23, 2025
The family of the late Oba Oladunni Oyewumi Ajagungbade III, the former Soun of Ogbomosoland, has condemned in strong terms what it described as the derogatory, self-serving, and unwarranted remarks made by Dr. Saka Balogun, a former Chief of...