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President Tinubu has declared a three-day national mourning over the Ondo military aircraft crash thatoccured on Monday, October 5.The President has also ordered that flags should be flown at half-mast throughout the country as a mark of respect to the officers and others onboard the illfated flight.In a statement released, presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga said President Tinubu “extends his deepest condolences to the family of the 25 passengers and seven crew members involved, the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sunday Kelvin Aneke, and all officers, airmen and airwomen of the Nigerian Air Force.”“This is a painful moment for our Armed Forces and for the entire nation. Our Air Force personnel put their lives on the line every day to secure Nigeria. Their sacrifice will ...

The Federal Government is working to review upward the monthly pensions of Nigerian police officers.The Acting Managing Director of the Nigeria Police Force Pension, Muhammad Dutse, disclosed this at an event on Monday.According to him, the Federal Government is working to ensure that police officers battling insecurity have a decent pension upon retirement.He appealed to police officers to exercise patience with the Tinubu administration.We have been working to ensure that the pay, the income pay of retirees is improved.“So I would not want to disclose the entirety of the arrangement because it’s a Presidential Committee that is working on it, set up by the President himself, and that is why we firmly believe that this initiative is going to yield positive results ...

The Trump administration is monitoring a suspected pneumonic plague death that has caused panic in Russia and led to hundreds of people being placed under quarantine, according to reports.Darya Shipilova, a 28-year-old researcher at the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, Irkutsk, was reportedly exposed to live Yersinia pestis bacteria when she accidentally broke a test tube containing the pathogen while collecting samples.She is understood to have been hospitalized on 29 September with severe pneumonia of “unknown origin” and placed on a ventilator, but died two days later.The Trump administration “is aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options,” an official told Axios.Authorities additionally quarantined an entire hospital and placed sco...

The Bauchi State Police Command has confirmed the murd£r of the former zonal women leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bauchi South, Mrs. Jemimah Dutse. Dutse was found dead with her throat allegedly sl!t inside her home at Muazu New Layout, Yelwa area of Bauchi metropolis. Confirming the incident in a statement on Sunday, October 4, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Bauchi State Command, SP Nafiu Habib, said the Command had commenced investigation into the incident. SP Habib said that a 49-year-old resident of Muazu New Layout, Yelwa, reported the incident to the ‘E’ Division of the Command on October 3, 2026. “Upon receipt of the report, detectives attached to ‘E’ Division promptly visited the scene, documented it, an...

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has confirmed ownership of the aircraft that crashed in the Igbokoda area of Ondo State earlier today, October 5.NAF director of public relations and information, Ehimen Ejodame, said the aircraft was on a “routine mission” when it crashed.The air force spokesperson said a rescue operation is underway, adding that the plane was heading to Lagos from Benin, Edo state.“The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has activated an immediate Search and Rescue operation following an ATR-42 aircraft accident in the Igbokoda area of Ondo State on 5 October 2026.The aircraft was on a routine mission from Benin to Lagos when the accident occurred. Search and Rescue operations, in coordination with relevant authorities and emergency response agencies, are currently ongo...

A Magistrate Court in Imo State, presided over by Chief Magistrate C.J. Nkwoada, shaa sentenced Rose Okon to six months in prison for inflicting grievous harm on her 14-year-old niece, whom she was caring for.In its ruling, the court stated that the convict could pay a fine of N50,000 instead of serving the six-month prison term. Rose Okon pleaded guilty when she was arraigned by the police on a charge of assault.The charge sheet read: “that you Rose Okon F, on the 19th of September at 1800 hrs at Umuneke, Ngor Okpala in the Ngor Okpala Magisterial district did assault one Favour Emmanuel, 14 years by pouring hot water on her head and body, which caused her grievous harm and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 355 of the Criminal Code ...

The Accord Party governorship candidate in Kebbi State, Muhammad Sani Abdullahi Bunza, has promised to use Islamic injunctions as part of his approach to tackling banditry and kidnapping if elected in 2027.Bunza made the promise on Saturday at a candidate engagement forum organised by the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kebbi State Council.He said passages from the Qur’an, if applied with sincerity, could help end banditry and kidnapping in the state.The candidate also promised to raise the minimum wage for Kebbi workers to N500,000 monthly if elected.He said the proposed wage was aimed at improving workers’ welfare and addressing what he described as hardship among civil servants.Bunza urged Kebbi residents to vote for candidates b...

Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, has claimed that the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, presidential candidate, Peter Obi is not a threat to President Bola Tinubu. He, however, said Obi is his brother.Featuring on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, the minister said: “Peter Obi is my brother and friend. My position about integrating the Southeast into the main stream of the nation never changed as a governor.“When Buhari was there I publicly asked the Southeast to give Buhari 25 percent while I gave Atiku 75 percent in my state.“So my position has not changed, my position is that we should have a broad mind. Peter Obi is not the only Southeast candidate contesting, we have three other Southeast candidates that are contesting.“So Peter Obi is not a t...