Daily News In Brief

The Federal Government has warned telecommunications operators to improve service quality or face regulatory sanctions. It warned that its recent reforms do not allow excuses over poor network performance.
Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, issued the warning in a statement that Nigeria’s connectivity gaps were largely structural, driven by years of underinvestment and constraints on operators.




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The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, has dismissed reports alleging that civilians were killed during a recent military air strike on Tumfa market in Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The military insisted that there is no credible evidence to support claims of civilian casualties arising from the operation carried out on Sunday.

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The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday sentenced the former Minister of Power, Mr Saleh Mamman, to 75 years imprisonment in absentia over N33.8 billion money laundering offences. Justice James Omotosho, who convicted Mamman in all the 12 counts preferred against him by the EFCC, ordered that the sentence shall run consecutively and not concurrently.

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A former Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has withdrawn from the race for the All Progressives Congress, APC governorship ticket in Yobe State. Baba announced his withdrawal in a statement made available to journalists on Wednesday.

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday arrived in Kigali, Rwanda, ahead of the 13th edition of the Africa CEO Forum, which begins on Thursday. President Tinubu was received at the Presidential Wing of the Kigali International Airport by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu and Rwanda’s Minister of Defence, Juvenal Marizamunda.

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The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has dismissed insinuations following his recent visit to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, stating that he does not practise “politics of enmity”. ​Speaking with newsmen during a project inspection on Wednesday, Wike clarified that his interaction with the APC chairman was a matter of personal association and professional courtesy rather than a formal political meeting.

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Troops of Operation HADIN KAI have rescued six kidnapped women and children including a three-month-old baby during separate operations across the North-East. The troops also arrested three suspected terrorist associates during clearance operations on May 12, a statement by spokesman, Operation Hadin Kai, Lt. Col Sani Uba, said Wednesday.

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Tension gripped Ijebu-Jesa in Osun State on Wednesday following a clash between police operatives and students of Interlink College of Health Technology after the death of a student in a road accident. The deceased, identified simply as Oluwaseun, a National Diploma II student of Mass Communication, was reportedly returning to Ijebu-Jesa on a motorcycle when he was hit by a bus along the Ijebu-Jesa/Esa-Oke Road.

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Ondo State Police Command on Wednesday said it arrested 24 suspected cultists during an initiation ceremony in Ile-Oluji, headquarters of Ile-Oluji/Okeigbo Local Government Area of the state. The command’s spokesperson, DSP Abayomi Jimoh, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday. According to him, the suspects, all alleged members of the Aiye confraternity, were arrested on Sunday during the initiation of new members.

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Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has disqualified 36 aspirants seeking to contest the party’s House of Assembly primaries ahead of the 2027 general elections. The screening committee, which sat on May 10 and 11 at the party secretariat in Asaba, cleared 46 aspirants while screening out 36 others over alleged irregularities ranging from bribery attempts to document inconsistencies and zoning violations.

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested and detained the Director-General of the Energy Commission of Nigeria, Dr Mustapha Abdullahi. An EFCC official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the D-G, who was arrested on Wednesday in Abuja, was being held over allegations of money laundering.

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