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Twenty-six passengers have been rescued after the Sokoto boat accident, while 25 are still unaccounted for, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). The Head of NEMA’s Sokoto Operations Office, Mr. Aliyu Shehu, disclosed that the ill-fated boat was carrying 51 passengers along with goods and motorcycles when it capsized.

. Six suspected Boko Haram members, including Muslim Mohammed Yusuf, son of the late founder of the Boko Haram terrorist sect, Mohammed Yusuf, were said to have been arrested in Chad. One of the Nigerian intelligence sources in the Lake Chad region said they received a report of the arrest of a six-man jihadist cell in Chad.

######. The Independent National Electoral Commission said on Monday that 69,376 Nigerians completed their online pre-registration for the Continuous Voter Registration exercise within the first seven hours of commencement. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, disclosed this in a statement, noting that the registration portal went live at 8:30 a.m.

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 Scores of bandits hibernating in some enclaves situated at Danmusa Local Government Area of Katsina State, have fled their hideouts following military airstrikes. This is just as 62 hostages abducted by the criminals, and have been in the bush for more than one month, took to their heels upon realising that their abductors had fled.

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 President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has arrived in Japan to participate in the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9), which kicks off on Wednesday in Yokohama. President Tinubu, who arrived at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo at about 12:55am local time on Tuesday, was welcomed by Ambassador Hideo Matsubara, the Japanese Ambassador in Charge of TICAD.

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. The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, has expressed optimism that the party will comfortably win the 2027 general election. Yilwatda spoke on Monday in Abuja while hosting members of the party’s Press Corps who visited to condole with him on the passing of his mother, Mama Lydia Yilwatda.

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 The U.S government has mandated Nigerian visa applicants to disclose their social media profiles and activities in the last five years, warning that failure to comply with the requirement could potentially result in visa denial. But the Federal Government, in a swift reaction, said it will reciprocate the new US visa policy with equal measures.

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 A man simply identified as ‘Doctor’ has allegedly stabbed his lover, nicknamed Ima to death in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The development caused pandemonium on Okereke Street, Mile 1 Diobu, Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of the state, where the incident happened Sunday night.

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An Improvised Explosive Device, IED, mistaken for scrap metal, exploded in Konduga, Borno State, leaving two children dead and four others injured. According to sources, the victims, on Sunday, picked the object at an excavation site where the Borno State Government is undertaking a project.

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 The National Pension Commission has directed Pension Fund Administrators and Pension Fund Custodians to immediately stop accepting or processing equity contribution applications submitted by seven Primary Mortgage Banks over alleged non-compliance with its housing loan guidelines. This was contained in a circular dated August 11, 2025, signed by the Head of Benefits and Insurance Department, Obiora Ibeziako.

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Human rights activist and lawyer, Dele Farotimi, has faulted the description of former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd), as a statesman.
Farotimi, in a post on X on Tuesday, said celebrating Babangida with such titles only helps to normalize the “evils” he claimed the former leader visited on Nigerians.

“Not telling these ruinous cretins exactly what they are, contributes towards the normalization of the evils that they have visited on the people, and this mutual affirmation strategy is what has helped to sustain the evil. IBB is no statesman, and you can stop lying to yourself,” he wrote.

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