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Nigeria has achieved a major diplomatic and institutional milestone at the recently concluded 39th Session of the Executive Council of the African Union (AU), cementing its leadership role in advancing Africa’s economic integration, peace, security, and democratic governance.

The Legal Aid Council of Nigeria, LACoN, has sustained its quarterly visits to prisons across the country despite lean resources, reaffirming its commitment to decongesting custodial facilities and ensuring access to justice for indigent inmates.

The Inspector-General of Police IGP Kayode Egbetokun, has declared Nigeria’s banking industry a strategic national asset, ordering an immediate intelligence-led crackdown on cybercriminal networks, insider facilitators, and transnational financial crime syndicates threatening the stability of the financial system.

   

Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, paid a solidarity visit to Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, former Governor of Kaduna State and stalwart of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), following a failed attempt to arrest him at the airport. Atiku disclosed the visit on his Facebook page on Friday,

   

The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU), Comrade Fidelis Edeh, has said the council withheld approval for the university’s 2025 convocation ceremony because the estimated cost was not captured in the budget.

The Supreme Egbesu Assembly (SEA), a prominent Ijaw group, has declared its readiness to take legal action against the Federal Government and the National Assembly over local government creation in Bayelsa State and issues of resource control.

Key Leaders and ParticipantsLt. Col. Bukar Suka Dimka: The central figure and leader of the coupattempt. Major General I.D. Bisalla: The then-Minister of Defence, executed for complicity. Joseph Dechi Gomwalk: Former Military Governor of Benue-Plateau State, convicted of involvement. Lt. William Seri: Identified as the officer who fired at General Murtala Muhammed’s vehicle. Abdulkarim Zakari:

This is Lt. Col. B. Dimka of the Nigerian Army calling. I bring you good tidings. Murtala Muhammed’s deficiency has been detected.

Events of the past few years have indicated that despite our great human and material resources, the Government has not been able to fulfil the legitimate expectations of our people. Nigeria has been left to drift.

Former minister of foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu Bashir Wali is a cousin to the former Head of State, late General Murtala Ramat Muhammed.