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Two videos of victims of abduction in Community High School, Ahoro-Esinele, and Baptist Nursery and Primary School, Ogbomoso Yawota area in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, pleading with the federal and state governments to come to their rescue, went viral on social media on Sunday, sparking outrage as the Senate and Yoruba leaders demanded urgent action from the government to secure their release. The PUNCH reports that terrorists on motorbikes attacked Baptist Nursery and Primary School, Yawota; Community Grammar School, Ahoro-Esinele; and L.A. Primary School, all in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, around 9:30 am on…

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An aspirant for the Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency under the platform of the All Progressive Congress, Onyeije Onuoha-Kalu, has claimed victory in the just concluded primary election. The Abia State National Assembly Primary Election Committee, led by  Barrister Erasmus Cishak, had  announced Ikenna Nicholas, as the winner of the primary election for the constituency on Saturday. However, addressing journalists on Sunday in Umuahia, Kalu said he won 15 of the 22 wards in the contest held on Saturday, May 16. He said he secured 8 of the 11 wards in Arochukwu Local Government Area and 7 of the 11 wards in…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has intensified surveillance and preparedness measures across the country following the ongoing Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a recently confirmed imported case in Uganda linked to the outbreak. The Director-General of the NCDC, Jide Idris, on Sunday, however, assured Nigerians that there is currently no confirmed case of Ebola Virus Disease in the country. “Nigeria currently has no confirmed case of Ebola Virus Disease,” Idris said in a public health advisory issued on Sunday. He explained that response activities were ongoing in the affected countries,…

Three-time champions Nigeria will discover their opponents for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers on Tuesday when the Confederation of African Football conducts the draw for the tournament to be jointly hosted by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The qualifying draw will be held at the headquarters of the Egyptian Football Association in Cairo ahead of the finals, which are scheduled to take place from June 19 to July 17, 2027. Tagged AFCON PAMOJA 2027, it will be the first edition in the competition’s history to be co-hosted by three countries. Nigeria won the tournament in…

As digital media continues to reshape the global entertainment industry, African-owned platforms are increasingly positioning themselves for international relevance, with Hitztv emerging as one of the growing brands in the space. Founded in 2016 by Nigerian media entrepreneur, Tayo Fadeyi, Hitztv has evolved from a modest entertainment blog into a multimedia platform covering celebrity news, music, sports, lifestyle, technology and biographies. The platform has steadily expanded its audience beyond Nigeria through a mix of entertainment reporting, multimedia storytelling and culturally relevant content targeted at online consumers. According to industry observers, the rise of platforms such as Hitztv reflects a broader…

Shortages of electricity, fuel, medicine and medical supplies are severely disrupting emergency care, blood banks, laboratories, immunization programmes and maternal and child health services, Edem Wosornu of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Altaf Musani of the World Health Organization (WHO) told journalists in New York via video link.Their briefing followed a three-day visit to the island nation.Surgeries and treatments delayedThe officials described a healthcare system under mounting strain as hospitals struggle to maintain basic services amid worsening shortages and power outages. In some areas, blackouts lasting up to 20 hours have forced hospitals to…

Adelani Olawuyi writes from Obada/Odooba Ogooluwa LGA, Oyo State In the Yoruba nation, Agbaarin, Dioclea reflexa seeds are seeds that cannot stay on top of each other, hence the aphorism ‘Ajatuka ni ti agbaarin’: the fight between two of such seeds ends in a stalemate. In 2023, the lack of mutual understanding in the main opposition political party, the People’s Democratic Party, gave Tinubu the advantage of winning the presidential election. Everyone thought the entitlement mantra, ‘Emilokan’, was a mere abracadabra until the election was won. Yoruba still have a word for that, it is called ‘eedi’, the charm that…

Editor’s note: If you’d like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, is an excellent choice. That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire above a gloomy stretch of desert in the Jornada del Muerto basin in New Mexico. Emily Seyl’s Trinity: An Illustrated History of the World’s First Atomic Test (The University of Chicago Press) offers hundreds of startlingly vivid photographs of the Manhattan Project that emerged from a 20-year restoration effort. This…

The Permanent Secretary for Special Services in the Office of the Secretary to the Bauchi State Government, Shehu Yahaya Jalam, has died in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, while participating in this year’s Hajj pilgrimage. Jalam passed away in the early hours of Sunday after a brief illness. The deceased, who bore the traditional title of Turakin Dawakin Misau, was among the Bauchi State contingent that travelled to Saudi Arabia for the 2026 Hajj exercise when he took ill and died. The state government, in a statement signed on Sunday by Governor Bala Mohammed’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mukhtar Gidado,…