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Vice-President Kashim Shettima has sought to reassure a beleaguered Nigerian public that the economic and security hardships currently gripping the country will not endure, expressing firm confidence that the Tinubu administration’s Renewed Hope Agenda will ultimately deliver the prosperity that citizens have been promised.

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has expressed renewed concern over Nigeria’s worsening condition, describing the country as caught in a cycle of instability fueled by insecurity, poor governance, and growing public discontent.

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has engaged a Washington-based lobbying firm at a cost of $1.2 million to burnish his reputation in the United States, shape international perceptions of his leadership, and counter narratives he associates with the Nigerian government — in a move widely read as early groundwork for a 2027 presidential bid.

A 16-year-old boy from Spain has been found wandering alone in a rural community in Kano State, days after losing contact with the four relatives he had travelled with to Nigeria — setting off a police search for his family across a stretch of highway between Jos and Saminaka.

Troops of Operation FANSAN YANMA have recorded a major breakthrough in the fight against banditry, neutralising at least 65 suspected bandits, including a high-profile commander, during a coordinated ground and air assault in Zamfara State.

The Oyo State Police Command has announced the arrest of a suspected notorious kidnapper during a coordinated security operation in the state.

The Oyo State Police Command has apprehended two suspected Agbekoya hunters following a violent confrontation that led to the death of a motorcyclist in Ibadan.

A 14-year-old secondary school student has been killed by a stray bullet allegedly fired by military personnel during celebratory gunfire at a wedding in Maiduguri, Borno State, in a tragedy that has drawn condemnation from human rights organisations and renewed calls for accountability over the reckless discharge of firearms by security personnel.

President Bola Tinubu has approved a N3.3 trillion payment plan to liquidate over a decade’s worth of accumulated debts in Nigeria’s power sector, in what the presidency has described as a landmark step toward delivering stable and reliable electricity to homes and businesses across the country.

Apostle Johnson Suleman, the Senior Pastor of Omega Fire Ministries, has delivered a searing indictment of Nigeria’s political leadership and the country’s growing desensitisation to mass casualties, warning in a widely circulated sermon that the normalisation of killings is quietly eroding the nation’s collective conscience.