Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command have foiled a planned attack by a notorious kidnapping syndicate, killing three suspected bandits and recovering arms and ammunition during an operation. The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, who confirmed the development through a statement issued on 1, December, 2025, said the breakthrough followed recent kidnapping incidents in the ACO community, Gwagwalada, and Bwari, prompting the Commissioner of Police to direct the Anti-Kidnapping Unit to intensify efforts to dismantle the gang. According to Adeh in the statement, credible intelligence revealed that the syndicate had planned another violent attack on…
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The Chief Executive of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission(NUPRC), Gbenga Komolafe, on Monday, 1 December, 2025 unveiled an ambitious plan to attract about $10 billion in new investments and unlock up to two billion barrels of crude oil reserves through the newly commenced Nigeria 2025 Petroleum Licensing Round. Komolafe, while unveiling the bid round in Abuja on Monday, 1 December, 2025, said the exercise, covering 50 oil and gas blocks across onshore, shallow-water, frontier and deepwater terrains, would help reverse declining exploration activity, expand reserves and boost national production. According to NUPRC boss, the round marks a major step…
The Executive Secretary of the National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC) Dr. Iyela Ajayi on Monday, 1 December, 2025 disclosed that the commission has facilitated the upgrade 50 senior secondary schools nationwide, just as it also revealed that it is in talks with partners to secure 30, 00 tablets for teachers. Dr. Ajayi , who made this disclosure during an interactive session with newsmen in Abuja, the nation’s seat of power in Abuja. According to Ajayi, despite financial constraints, the Commission has facilitated the upgrade of 50 senior secondary schools, at least one in each state, through constituency projects. “These…
The Federal Government, through its Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority(NMDPRA) has disclosed that fuel security slowed in October as the Dangote Petroleum Refinery supplied only an average of 17.1 million litres per day of the nation’s petrol needs, forcing the country to rely heavily on imports despite earlier hopes of self-sufficiency. The regulator, which revealed this through its just-released October 2025 Fact Sheet on the state of the midstream and downstream sector, added that the Dangote refinery supplied only 512.4 million litres of petrol in October, far below the 1.5 billion litres required to meet the country’s monthly…
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Communication, Sunday Dare, on Sunday, 30 November, 2025 rejected suggestions that Nigeria should hand over its internal security to foreign governments, describing such calls as capitulation. Dare’s rebuttal aimed at former President Olusegun Obasanjo, also defended President Bola Tinubu’s strategies against terrorism, saying they are yielding results. In a post on his official X handle on Sunday, 30 November, 2025, Dare said attempts to portray the Tinubu administration as unable to protect Nigerians were ignoble, insisting that the country is confronting real terrorists. “The suggestion that Nigeria should effectively subcontract its…
This is indeed good news for Akwa-Ibom State civil servants as the state Governor, Umo Eno on Monday, 1 December, 2025 approved the payment of a 13th-month “Eno-mber” salary bonus to them ahead of the Christmas season. A 13th-month salary is an additional payment, often equal to one month’s salary, that employees receive on top of their regular annual salary. It is frequently given at the end of the year to help with holiday and festive expenses. The Governor, who announced this in a post on his social media handles on Monday, 1 December, 2025, said he has directed the…
The Federal Government has reportedly proposed a 40 per cent salary increase for lecturers under the Academic Staff Union of Universitie(ASUU). It was gathered that the proposal comes as ASUU leadership prepares to return to the negotiation table with the Federal Government delegation headed by Yayale Ahmed. The union’s decision follows a consensus reached at the National Executive Council meeting held in Abuja on Sunday, 30 November, 2025. Branch leaders who attended the meeting are expected to communicate the development to their members nationwide. Speaking at the end of the NEC meeting, a member who preferred anonymity due to restrictions…
Olisa Ezeasor, Assistant Coach of Solution FC – Anambra-based Nigeria National League side, has sold the pair of boots gifted to him by Super Eagles striker, Victor Osimhen He put the boots up for sale at N1 million, barely two months after he was gifted them by Osimhen. The Super Eagles striker last wore the boots when he scored a hat-trick for Nigeria in the last 2026 World Cup qualifying series against the Benin Republic. Eseasor sold the boots to a football administrator, Fola Olatunji-David, for an undisclosed fee. According to him, he needed the money for business. “Officially putting…
Italy’s tennis federation on Monday, 1 December, 2025 announced that a two-time winner of the French Open, Nicola Pietrangeli, has died at the age of 92. “Italian tennis is mourning an icon. Nicola Pietrangeli, the only Italian inducted into the World Tennis Hall of Fame, has died,” said the FITP Born in Tunis in 1933 to an Italian father and Russian mother, Pietrangeli was widely considered the country’s greatest ever tennis player until the emergence of current world number two Jannik Sinner. Pietrangeli won 44 other singles titles over his career, including his two triumphs at Roland Garros in 1959…
A suspected cult clash in the Ilese area of Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, on the night of Saturday, 29 November, 2025 has claimed the lives of a police a police officer and one yet-to-be-identified man. It was gathered on Sunday, 30 November, 2025 from a community source—who requested anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the incident—that the clash erupted on Saturday night when suspected cultists stormed the area and began shooting sporadically. The source said the attackers killed a police officer and another man whose identity had yet to be ascertained. He added that the violence was believed to be…