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Russia unleashed one of its heaviest bombardments of the war overnight, pounding Kyiv with hundreds of drones and missiles in an attack that killed at least four people and wounded dozens more, Ukrainian authorities said Sunday, May 24.The assault, which Ukrainian officials said included the use of Moscow’s nuclear-capable hypersonic Oreshnik missile, sent residents scrambling into underground shelters as explosions echoed across the capital through the early hours of the morning.AFP journalists in Kyiv reported repeated blasts shaking the city as smoke rose from multiple districts. By daylight, emergency crews were battling fires and combing through rubble left behind by strikes that damaged residential buildings, schools, shopping centres, theatres, museums and universities. ...

Abuja Electricity Distribution Company has announced that it has restored electricity supply to State House, Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Lugbe, Garki, and other areas in the nation’s capital after an outage. AEDC disclosed this in a notice on Saturday night. Recall that major parts of Abuja were thrown into darkness due to the Transmission Company of Nigeria’s Apo substation fault. TCN had on Saturday issued an update noting that its engineers were working to fix the fault. In a notice later on Saturday night, AEDC announced electricity supply has been restored to affected areas. “Abuja Electricity Distribution Plc (AEDC) is pleased to inform our esteemed customers that power supply has now ...

An early-morning fire on Sunday gutted a residential building at Tewo-Gbore Street, Ogele Ori-Sunbare in the Eyenkorin area of Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State, destroying parts of the property.The incident, which reportedly occurred at about 12:38 am, affected a building comprising a room-and-parlour self-contained apartment and a two-bedroom flat.According to a statement issued on Sunday by the spokesperson for the Kwara State Fire Service, Hassan Adekunle, firefighters responded swiftly after receiving a distress call from the area.The statement said the timely intervention of firemen prevented the fire from spreading to nearby structures and limited the extent of the damage recorded during the incident.It said firefighters swiftly mobilised to the scene and ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said its operatives have arrested a 63-year-old Chinese woman, Ting Hung Kiong, for allegedly attempting to smuggle a large consignment of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, into Nigeria.The suspect, a Chinese national naturalised in Malaysia, was arrested on Sunday, May 17, 2026, upon her arrival at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos, from Thailand via Dubai aboard an Emirates Airline flight.According to a statement issued on Sunday by NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, the suspect was intercepted at the Terminal 2 arrival hall of the airport.Babafemi said investigations revealed that the suspect travelled from Malaysia to Thailand before proceeding to Nigeria through the...

A stakeholders’ meeting of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Abuja descended into chaos on Saturday following a violent disruption during discussions ahead of the party’s senatorial primary election.The party leaders, including the Senator representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Ireti Kingibe, had assembled before the distribution of materials for the senatorial primary election conducted on Saturday.The chairman of the election committee, Abubakar Adams Chika, alongside the committee secretary, David Godwin, had invited stakeholders to the party’s FCT secretariat to outline procedures for the exercise.However, the meeting reportedly turned rowdy after one Tijani Mubarak and four others stormed the venue carrying sticks and disrupted proceedings.Tijani alle...

A public affairs analyst, Mahmud Jega, has said Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has made history as the first All Progressives Congress (APC) governor to be denied a re-election bid.Naija News reports that Jega stated this on Friday during an interview on Arise Television.He was reacting to Fubara’s withdrawal from the APC governorship primary in Rivers State on the eve of the exercise.Jega said the outcome would not surprise anyone who had followed political developments in Rivers State over the past three years.He said, “What happened in Rivers couldn’t have been surprising to anybody who has been observing the development in the last three years.“Fubara has made history as the first APC governor denied a re-election bid, including the ones who defected from...

The United Nations on Friday warned that about 35 million Nigerians are at risk of acute hunger from June to August.The UN Humanitarian Country Team in New York City, United States, said Nigeria was facing a deepening hunger crisis, with millions at risk as the lean season approaches.“Nearly one in seven people, that is 35 million people nationwide in Nigeria, are likely to face acute food insecurity during this year’s lean season, which runs from June to August,” it said.The UN said the latest report makes Nigeria one of the world’s largest hunger crises, with the burden falling overwhelmingly in the northern part of the country.undefined“If assistance is further delayed, millions of families will be forced to reduce meals further, sell assets, or withdraw their childr...

Donald Trump has ordered Nigerians and other foreign nationals seeking permanent residency in the United States to return to their home countries to complete their green card applications.The new directive, announced on Friday by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, will apply to most applicants except in what authorities described as “extraordinary circumstances.”According to USCIS, the policy is intended to restore the original structure of US immigration law by requiring foreigners already in the country on temporary visas to process residency applications through American consulates abroad.“We’re returning to the original intent of the law to ensure aliens navigate our nation’s immigration system properly,” the agency stated.“From now on, an alien who is in th...