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Residents wade across a flooded street, in La Goulette near the capital Tunis, Tunisia yesterday. Flooding across Tunisia has killed three people, authorities said.
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Kaduna abduction: The denial that failed
The Kaduna State Government yesterday confirmed the Sunday’s abduction of many persons at Kurmin Wali village in Kajuru Local Government Area of the state. Governor Uba Sani confirmed the abduction during his visit to the village where he consoled...
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Abduction: Kaduna villagers recount ordeal
Residents of Kurmin Wali village in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State have narrated how bandits attacked their community on Sunday and abducted many persons. Some of those who escaped from the bandits and families of those abducted...
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Smoke rising from a wildfire in Concepcion, Chile. Wildfires that have killed 19 people in southern Chile and wiped out entire towns, raged for a third day , fanned by high temperatures and strong winds at the height of the southern hemisphere summer.
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A general view of remnants of homes washed away following floods in Mbaula village, 50 km from Giyani following heavy rains over much of the Limpopo Province, South Africa at the weekend
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60yrs after Sardauna, Balewa, Akintola
Today, January 15, 2026, marks 60 years since Nigeria’s first military coup which claimed the lives of foremost political leaders, including the Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa; Premier of Northern Region, Sir Ahmadu Bello (Sardaunan...
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Kwankwaso backs temporary APC shift
Aformer Kano State governor, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has urged his associates in Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf ’s government, who are reportedly under pressure over the governor’s planned defection, to align with his move to the APC to ease rising...
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Katsina defends release of 70 bandits
The Katsina State Government has justified its plan to facilitate the release of 70 persons facing trial for alleged involvement in banditry, describing it as part of efforts towards consolidating peace deals with armed groups operating across the...
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How Rivers peace deal collapsed again
The peace brokered by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu among key political actors in Rivers State has again collapsed, as the State House of Assembly yesterday commenced impeachment proceedings against Governor The Assembly, led by Speaker Martins...
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Wintry conditions in Scarborough, UK as temperature struggle to get above freezing
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‘Gov Yusuf’s defection beyond Kano’
Despite appeals from the national leader of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, urging Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf to reconsider his reported defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC), top aides of the...
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His Excellency, Engr. Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf
Executive Governor of Kano State
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Children warm their hands in front of a sand sculpture by the artist Yazed Abu Jara in Deir alBalah, Gaza Strip
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Spectators watching as a masquerade entertains people during a festival in Plateau State yesterday
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Amid uproar, Tinubu declares tax laws effective Jan 1
By Baba Martins, John Chuks Azu (Abuja), Mumini Abdulkareem (Ilorin) & Ado Abubakar Musa (Jos) President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday brushed aside calls for the suspension of the implementation of the tax laws, insisting that they take effect on...
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Re-gazetting tax laws illegal – Lawyers
By Itodo Daniel Sule, John Chuks Azu, Idowu Isamotu (Abuja), Ahmad Datti (Kano), Afeez Hanafi (Lagos), Mumini Abdulkareem (Ilorin) & Ado Abubakar Musa (Jos) Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) and other legal experts on tax matters have described the...
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Peaceful Christmas nationwide
Christmas celebrations were held peacefully across Nigeria yesterday as families and worshippers, in major cities and remote communities, gathered in churches, homes and public spaces without reports of disruptions. Security agencies had deployed...
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Yuletide: A Santa Claus image located at Allen Junction in Lagos State
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Tax laws face legitimacy crisis
Amid the intensifying pushback from some lawmakers, political parties, civil society and regional groups as well as other critics, the tax laws are facing a legitimacy crisis. The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) yesterday demanded immediate suspension...
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CHIEFTAINCY EXTRAORDINAIRE!
On behalf of the great people of Oyo Central Senatorial District, I, Senator Yunus Abiodun Akintunde, Ph.D heartily felicitate Senator Abdulaziz Yari (Obaloyin of Yorubaland) & Barrister Seyi Tinubu (Okanlomo of Yorubaland) Two titans, one proud...
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Pressure mounts over tax laws
By Itodo Daniel Sule, John Chuks Azu, Saawua Terzungwe, Baba Martins (Abuja), Afeez Hanafi (Lagos) & Ado Abubakar Musa (Jos) Calls are mounting for immediate suspension of the implementation of the new tax laws as lawmakers, opposition parties and...
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New budget as 2025’s lags
As President Bola Ahmed Tinubu presents the 2026 Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly today, questions are still being raised over the level of the implementation of the 2025 budget. Checks at the Budget Office of the Federation indicated that...
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Tax laws altered?
“...the tax authority shall have the power to investigate or cause an investigation to be conducted to ascertain any violation of any tax law, whether or not such violation has been reported to the relevant tax authority.” – Nigeria Tax Administration...
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Labour rallies against insecurity
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says it has mobilised its members and affiliate unions for today’s nationwide protest against the insecurity. Its Acting General Secretary, Benson Upah, yesterday said the protest would commence at 7.30am at Labour...
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Dangote’s troubles
President of the Dangote Industries Limited, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has launched a fresh offensive against the regulator, the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), insisting the leadership of the authority is...
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BOI HQ move to Eko Atlantic draws scrutiny
In November 2019 at Seattle, United states, governors in Nigeria made a commitment to strengthen primary healthcare in their respective states through notbonky making the resources needed available but their personal involvement as well. In 2022, the...
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How 9 UniJos students died in auto crash
One of the survivors of the auto crash that killed students of the University of Jos, Plateau State, yesterday narrated how the incident occurred. Speaking to Daily Trust, Dominic Dantala said, “The accident occurred when we were coming back from a...
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Banditry: Noose tightens around Turji
The army appears to be closing in on notorious bandit commander, Bello Turji, who has been terrorising Sokoto State and its environs. This follows the killing of one his allies, Kachalla Kallamu. Daily Trust gathered that troops of the 8 Division of...
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Benin: Praises, flak over troops deployment
By Joshua Odeyemi, Saawua Terzungwe, Dalhatu Liman, Seun Adeuyi & Al-Mustapha A. Mustapha (Abuja), Mumini AbdulKareem (Ilorin), & Salim Umar Ibrahim (Kano) The Senate yesterday approved President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s request for the deployment of...
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7 women protesters killed in Adamawa
Seven women died while 11 others were injured yesterday during a protest in Lamurde Local Government Area of Adamawa State. Daily Trust gathered that the women were protesting what they termed delayed response by the military to calm tensions between...
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Why coups are unsettling West Africa
Political analysts, diplomats and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have identified bad governance, sit-tight syndrome, among others, as the reasons for the rising spate of coups in the West African sub-region. This followed the attempted coup in...
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ADC, Obi flay Tinubu over early campaign
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the coalition-led African Democratic Congress (ADC) and Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, have criticised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for engaging in early campaign through the distribution of...
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Revised cash policy, real effects
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has revised cash-related policies, effective January 1, 2026, removing all limits and fees on cash deposits. The development is already generating reactions from sections of Nigerians. While some believe that it may...
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Why Tinubu returned Gen Musa
BStaff arring any last minute change, the immediate past Chief of Defence (CDS), General Christopher Gabwin Musa (rtd) would be the next minister of defence, following his nomination on Monday by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. General Musa left office...
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Bandits abduct pastor, wife, parishioners in Kogi
Bandits yesterday attacked a church in Ejiba Community in Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi State, abducting the pastor, his wife and many worshipers. Daily Trust gathered that the incident occurred while the church service was going on. The...
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Smoke billows from an apartment fire in the Tai Po district. The fire has left 279 missing
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Released, rescued or ransomed?
“There are a lot of questions, honestly, regarding this whole activity that does not bode well for us. The fact that they engaged them, the fact that they did not arrest them, the fact that they did not go after them, means that these guys will go back...
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24 Kebbi schoolgirls rescued
Twenty four students of the Government Comprehensive Girls Secondary School, Maga, in Danko Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State, who were abducted about nine days ago, have been rescued. Confirming their rescue to journalists in Birnin Kebbi,...
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Military’s approach to insecurity not working – Kebbi gov
By Baba Martins, Jide Olusola, Idowu Isamotu (Abuja), Ismail Adebayo (Birnin Kebbi), Hassan Ibrahim (Bauchi), Rabilu Abubakar (Gombe) & Abubakar Akote (Minna) Governor Nasir Idris of Kebbi State has called on the military to change the tactics used in...
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Members of the All United Amhara Association hold Ethiopian flags and banners during a protest near the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg on November 23, 2025, calling for an end to the persecution of the Amhara people in Ethiopia and opposing...
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No going back on convention –PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has vowed to proceed with preparations for its elective national convention slated for November 15 and 16, despite a fresh Federal High Court order restraining it from doing so. The Deputy National Publicity...
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Bandits attack 5 vehicles, abduct passengers in Kogi
Bandits attacked motorists along the Ayere-Kabba highway in Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State, killing one person and abducting several passengers. Reports from the community indicated that the incident occurred around 5.pm on Sunday when the...
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Genocide claim: FG silent on Amupitan’s legal brief We’re not aware – Senate
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US threat: Tinubu responds to Trump
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday responded to the threat of a military action in Nigeria by the President of the United Stated of America, Donald Trump. Tinubu assured that his government was engaging with the world diplomatically over the...
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Contractors protest at N/Assembly for second day
Indigenous contractors continued their protest at the National Assembly, yesterday lamenting what they termed the failure of the federal government to pay them for projects executed since 2024. The contractors, under the aegis of the All...
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Misinformation behind US-Nigeria tension – Experts
Experts across the country have said that misinformation is largely responsible for the recent designation of Nigeria as a country of particular interest and threat of an attack by the President of the United States, Donald Trump. Daily Trust...
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US threat: What FG should do – Diplomat
Adiplomat, Ambassador Suleiman Dahiru, has called on the federal government to quickly engage the American government and the American Senate, over the designation of Nigeria and potential invasion, giving them all the facts about what has been going...
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Nigerians denounce US invasion threat
From Abdullateef Aliyu (Lagos), Joshua Odeyemi, Dalhatu Liman, Baba Martins (Abuja), Muhammed Ibrahim Yaba (Kaduna) & Eyo Charles (Calabar) Many Nigerians, including diplomats, lawyers and regional groups, have denounced American President...
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Fuel price mayPAGE go up – Marketers
Major marketers of petroleum products yesterday warned that the introduction of the 15 per cent import duty on petrol and diesel could signal another round of fuel price increase. The approval of the duty by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is causing...
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Alleged coup plot: Sylva confirms raid on residence
Aformer governor of Bayelsa State and exMinister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, yesterday confirmed that military operatives raided his Abuja residence. Sylva, in a statement by his media aide, Julius Bokoru, also denied involvement...
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Sanusi to FG: Borrowing after subsidy removal wrong
The 16th Emir of Kano and former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Muhammadu Sanusi II, has queried the rationale behind borrowings after the removal of petrol subsidy by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration. Speaking in Abuja...
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I’m being shut out – Sule Lamido
The crisis threatening to derail preparations for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national convention deepened on Monday as former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido, vowed to take legal action following his failed attempt to obtain the nomination...
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Farmers, FG disagree over drop in food prices
Farmers and the federal government have disagreed over the recent drop in prices of food items across the country. Many of the farmers and their associations, who spoke to Daily Trust, cited what they described as massive importation of food items...
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Boko Haram attacks communities in Borno, Yobe
Boko Haram fighters and members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) have launched attacks on communities and military formations in Borno and Yobe The attacks took place simultaneously between midnight and early hours of Thursday, in...
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Senate proposes mandatory electronic transmission of results
Section 82(2): Amended to make notices of political party conventions and congresses more specific and time-bound. Sections 12(1)(d) and 12(2): Recognise the voting rights of inmates, provided INEC makes adequate arrangements for their registration...
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Women, children killed in another Niger tanker explosion
At least 24 people including children and women died yesterday in a petrol tanker explosion at Essa village, Agaie-Bida road in Katcha Local Government Area of Niger State. Our correspondent gathered that the victims got burnt following an explosion...
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Nnamdi Kanu: Protest disrupts Abuja
Economic activities and movement in Abuja, the nation’s capital, were disrupted yesterday following the protest carried out to demand the release of the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. As early as...
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French police officers stand next to a furniture elevator used by robbers to enter the Louvre Museum, on Quai Francois Mitterrand, in Paris, France. Robbers broke in to the Louvre and fled with jewellery on Sunday, 2025 morning, a source close to the...
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Decision on clemency not final – FG
The federal government said yesterday that it had not completed the process for the clemency recently announced for Maryam Sanda and 81 others. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had granted a presidential pardon and clemency to 175 persons following the...
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Fuel price climbs to N1,000 as queues resurface
The pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol, has reached N1,000 or more per litre in parts of the country. Daily Trust reports that the last time PMS was sold at over N1, 000 was in April and since then, it had sold at below...
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Members of the 2025 Batch B Stream II of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), dressed in Fulani attire, during cultural carnival at the Kaduna State Orientation Camp
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Maryam Sanda’s release, worst injustice to us – Husband’s family
The family of the late Bilyaminu Ahmed Bello has expressed disappointment over the presidential pardon granted to Maryam Sanda, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of her husband. In a statement released on Monday, signed by Dr....
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Presidency confirms Edun’s illness; Cardoso leads delegation to W/Bank/IMF meetings
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, will lead Nigeria’s delegation to the 2025 Annual Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), scheduled to begin on Monday, October 13, in Washington,...
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Amupitan and his records
The appointment of Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan (SAN) as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has drawn attention from both political and academic circles, not only for its timing but also for the man behind the name. While...
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Tinubu’s reforms have not reduced poverty – W/Bank
The World Bank has said that despite the expansion of the Nigeria’s economy and the revenue increase, poverty rate remains alarmingly high. The Bretton Woods institution declared that 139 million Nigerians are living in poverty in 2025 despite the...
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Amupitan may emerge INEC chair
The stage is now set for the president to announce a new chairman for the Independent National Electrical Commission (INEC) as Professor Mahmood Yakubu, on Tuesday, ended his 10-year tenure as head of the electoral body. Shortly before Yakubu bowed...
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Parties: President shouldn’t appoint INEC chair
Nigeria’s registered political parties, under the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), have proposed the creation of an independent body to appoint the chairman, national commissioners and secretary of the Independent National Electoral Commission...
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UNN never issued me degree certificate – Minister
The Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji, has admitted that the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), never issued him a degree certificate. This statement is in line with the report of a two-year investigation by PREMIUM TIMES...
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Erratic power hinders businesses in Kaduna, Kano, Katsina
Despite the increase in power generation, customers in Kaduna, Katsina and Kano states are complaining of low supply of electricity to meet their needs. Daily Trust reports that the rainy season is always a period when Nigerians enjoy electricity due...
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A police officer calling for parade during the 65th Independence Anniversary in Lagos State yesterday
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Fubara returns, hobbled
By Saawua Terzungwe, Baba Martins, Hussein Yahaya, John Chuks Azu (Abuja), Bassey Willie (Port Harcourt) & Mumini Abdulkareem (Ilorin) President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday lifted the six-month emergency rule in Rivers State, ending months of measures...
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A voter with impaired mobility casting his ballot at the Lilongwe District Commissioner’s office polling station at Old town in Lilongwe, during Malawi’s presidential and parliamentary elections yesterday
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