On Wednesday, September 24, 2025, Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria Yu Dunhai announced plans to build Africa’s first local insulin production facility in Nigeria, aimed at ending reliance on imported insulin and positioning Nigeria as a hub for medical biotechnology, during a reception marking China’s 76th National Day anniversary, as reported by Vanguard and ThisDay (Web:0, […]
On Wednesday, September 24, 2025, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced a reward of up to $10,000 (approximately ₦14 million) for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Olumide Adebiyi Adediran, a Nigerian national wanted for violating conditions of release after fleeing the U.S. in December 2001 to evade trial on federal charges […]
On Thursday, September 25, 2025, panic gripped residents of Mangoro in Alimosho Local Government Area after a two-storey building collapsed at No. 4 Modupeola Street near Mangoro Bus Stop, prompting swift rescue operations amid fears of trapped victims, as reported by Naija News and Daily Post Nigeria. The incident, occurring around 6:00 p.m., left six […]
On Wednesday, September 24, 2025, President Bola Tinubu conferred posthumous Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) honors on the late Ogoni leaders Albert Badey, Edward Kobani, Theophilus Orage, and Samuel Orage during the receipt of the Ogoni Consultations Committee report at the Presidential Villa, as reported by Vanguard and The Punch (Web:0, Web:1). […]
On Monday, September 22, 2025, the Chairman of the Plateau State Fact-Finding Committee on Incessant Attacks and Killings, Major General Nicholas Rogers (rtd), disclosed that over 11,000 people have been killed and at least 420 communities destroyed in the state over the past two decades of violence, as presented in the committee’s report to Governor […]
On September 3, 2025, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMLSN), and Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) raised urgent concerns over the escalating “Japa syndrome,” warning that the mass migration of health professionals is crippling Nigeria’s healthcare system, as reported by Vanguard and […]
On Thursday, September 25, 2025, elder statesman and President of the Osisioma Foundation, Dr. Chike Obidigbo, called on President Bola Tinubu to adopt a political solution for the detention of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, warning that failure to do so could destabilize the South East and spark national tensions, as […]
On Monday, September 22, 2025, the military-led governments of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger declared their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC), denouncing it as a “neo-colonial instrument of repression” incapable of prosecuting war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and aggression, according to a joint statement reported by Le Monde and Reuters (Web:0, Web:2, […]
On Tuesday, September 23, 2025, former Anambra State Governor and 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi condemned the ambush that killed at least 16 security personnel in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State, urging leaders to address insecurity’s root causes to prevent further losses, as reported by Vanguard and Punch. The attack on […]
On Tuesday, September 23, 2025, the National Assembly unsealed the office of suspended Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP), granting her access to the premises and signaling potential resolution to her six-month suspension, as reported by Vanguard and Punch (Web:0, Web:1). Sergeant at Arms and security personnel carried out the unsealing, ahead of the Senate’s […]