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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to remove the name of Imo State governor, Hope Uzodimma, as the senatorial candidate for Imo West. The court specifically asked the electoral umpire to replace Uzodimma as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, with the name of former governor Rochas Okorocha.
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President Bola Tinubu has responded to criticism from opposition leaders over the Federal Government's efforts to access fresh loans from international institutions and banks. Tinubu identified the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, Sokoto-Badagry Superhighway, Trans-Sahara Superhighway, electricity grid upgrades and the modernisation of key commercial ports in Lagos as major projects expected to strengthen Nigeria’s productive capacity.
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has destroyed banned, fake and adulterated products worth about N8 billion seized during enforcement operations in the North-Central zone. The destruction exercise took place on Thursday in Lafia, Nasarawa State, during the agency’s North-Central zonal destruction of regulated products.
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Presidential candidate of Nigeria Democratic Congress, Peter Obi, on Thursday alleged that President Bola Tinubu spent over 260 days out of the country but cannot spend 36 days to go round the states of the federation to campaign for next year’s general election. Obi, who declared himself the leading presidential candidate for the 2027 election, said the President did not have the energy to run the country and therefore should pack up and leave Aso Rock.
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Troops of the Joint Task Force, Operation Hadin Kai, have neutralised 44 suspected Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists in several offensive operations across Borno State. The operations also left scores of terrorists injured, while their vehicles, motorcycles and improvised explosive device materials were destroyed.
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The Katsina State Police Command on Thursday arrested 14 suspects over an attack on a convoy of All Progressives Congress supporters along the Yashi–Funtua Road in Malumfashi Local Government Area of the state. The incident occurred on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, as the convoy was travelling through Malumfashi to Funtua for a campaign flag-off.
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President Bola Tinubu on Thursday evening arrived in Saudi Arabia, landing at the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah. He was received by Nigeria’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Yakubu Gambo, and the Saudi head of royal protocol Ahmad bin Thafir.
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One hundred and fifty-four students of Government Science Secondary School, Batagarawa, Katsina State, were hospitalised following a suspected adverse reaction to praziquantel tablets administered to treat bilharzia. The incident occurred on Monday, according to a statement issued on Thursday by the Katsina State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, Abubakar Sadiq Aliyu.
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Troops of the Joint Task Force, JTF, Operation Whirl Stroke, have arrested two suspected bandit logistics suppliers and two suspected armed robbers in Benue State. A statement signed by Lt. Ahmad Zubairu, Acting Media Information Officer, Headquarters of JTF Operation Whirl Stroke, and made available to newsmen on Wednesday in Makurdi, said the arrests were made on October 28.
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An Abuja High Court has sentenced Kinsley Eselebor, a staff member of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), to 25 years in prison for defrauding a land buyer with forged documents , though he will effectively serve seven years, as the terms run concurrently.
Justice A.O. Musa delivered the judgment on October 28, 2026, finding Eselebor guilty on all five counts filed by the EFCC. He collected money from Moses Osinachi for two plots in Kubwa District Central Annex, claiming he had valid titles. He used his FCDA job and church relationship with the victim to build trust.
Eselebor presented forged conveyance documents and insisted they were genuine. When Osinachi attempted to take possession, he discovered the plots had other claimants. Eselebor failed to provide alternative land or refund the money, leading Osinachi to petition the EFCC.
The court sentenced him to seven years each for obtaining money under false pretences and two years each for using forged documents. All sentences run at the same time, with no option of fine.
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has secured a conviction against an Aba-based businessman for producing and selling counterfeit Goya Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
Innocent Okoye, Managing Director of Chikason Industrial Nigeria Limited, was found guilty on two counts by Justice K. O. Ogundare of the Federal High Court in Umuahia, Abia State. The judgment was delivered on Wednesday, October 28, 2026. The court sentenced him to five years in prison with an option of a ₦5 million fine.
NAFDAC’s Investigation and Enforcement Directorate discovered the illegal production facility in Aba during an operation in April 2026. Officials arrested Okoye and sent samples of the recovered products to the agency’s laboratory for testing. The results supported the charges that led to his conviction.
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Sir Patrick Stewart, the respected British actor loved worldwide as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek and Professor X in the X-Men films, has died. He was 86.
He passed away on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, at his home in Los Angeles. His family shared that he had a short battle with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia.
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May Sir Patrick soul rest in peace.
ReplyDeleteRochas does not want to retire.
Not one, not ten but a hundred and fifty four students reacted to same drug ? Either It's a fake or substandard. Someone needs to take accountability for this and appropriate action taken. Why toil with peoples lives ? Ooh, I forgot It's the country we fond ourselves.
ReplyDeletePO is learning, yea that's politics. Stain Me, I stain you. Gbas for gbos. Gentility no dey pay.
Goya oil made in Aba.
ReplyDeleteHope is just adverse effect not fake prazequantel, wishing them speedy recovery.
Trans Sahara super high way. Have they finish repairing all the roads in Nigeria.
Thanks for the update SDK 4life.