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 NATIONAL Tinubu needs to ‘refuel’ after months of ‘monumental’ decisions – Dare Shettima Returns From AU Summit Opposition Summit: We Can Repeat What APC Did In 2015 – Rep Minority Caucus Presidency Spends N37.6bn On Trips APM demands Tinubu’s health disclosure, faults three-week leave Xenophobia: Tinubu drags South Africa to AU Xenophobic attack: We’ll no longer tolerate dehumanization of our citizens — Shettima Atiku, Obi, Makinde absent as G100, party chairmen, Reps caucus chart path to 2027 G100: We’ll Fight To Remove This Government – Baba-Ahmed INEC portal: Initial glitches resolved, says Labour Party Benin-Asaba highway gridlock gets global attention after Al Jazeera Report Opposition Summit: G100 proposes single 4-year transition term David Mark urges governorship candidates to shun hate speech, empty promises Sylva Quits APC, Asks Nigerians To Vote Out Ruling Party 2027: NANS hails DSS over suspension of Sowore’s prosecution till after polls Sowore Case: Lawyer faults DSS...

This is a work of fiction inspired by recurring themes in today's news. All characters, names, and events are invented and do not depict real people or organizations. Tolu had rigged a telescope out of parts scavenged from three broken ones and a tube his uncle had used for something else entirely, and on the nights the power held, he carried it up to the flat roof of the family compound to look at whatever the sky was willing to show him. His grandmother found him there most Sunday evenings, not because she understood what he was looking at, but because she'd decided, somewhere along the way, that a boy staring quietly upward instead of at a phone screen was a thing worth sitting beside. "What's up there tonight?" "Saturn, I think. If the clouds hold off." He adjusted the makeshift focus with the careful patience he applied to nothing else in his life. "You want to look?" She always said yes, though her knees complained about the low stool he ...

  NATIONAL Tinubu jets out for 3-week European leave Alleged Drug Trafficking: Tinubu to block release of records in US court — Legal team Japa: FG targets 20,000 annual medical admissions, unveils six simulation centres Nigeria expresses concern over political crisis in Niger Gov Adeleke will campaign for Tinubu’s re-election – APC national secretary NHRC urges lawmakers to uphold human rights in lawmaking Ugochinyere hails Otuaro’s reforms in Amnesty Programme INEC unveils 2027 governorship candidates as Bago, Pantami enter race AAC rejects DSS suspension of Sowore’s case, demands complete withdrawal ADC challenges Tinubu to account for N15.8tn subsidy windfall Summit ahead of 2027: Uncertainty trails opposition parties’ single candidate plan against Tinubu 2027: ‘Tinubu should step down for Obi,’ Igbo Group tells campaigners FG denies Lagdo Dam release as heavy rains fuel flooding NDLEA intercepts N6.2bn ‘Jihadi drug’, opioids at Lagos airport BUSINESS Nigeria records $947m remi...

  This is a work of fiction inspired by recurring themes in the news. All characters, names, and events are invented and do not depict real people or organizations. Adaobi had signed up for the matchmaking platform mostly out of exhaustion, having tried, in roughly this order, church introductions, a cousin's insistent friend, and eighteen months of nothing in particular happening on her own. The platform promised something more scientific: a questionnaire, an algorithm, a compatibility percentage attached to every suggested match, as though love were finally being handled with the rigor it apparently deserved. Her first match arrived with an 87% score and a profile picture that seemed, on inspection, to have been taken at a slight and deliberate distance. "An 87% is basically a formality," her friend Chiamaka told her over the phone, unhelpfully. "You're contractually obligated to fall in love now." "I don't think that's how percentages work....

  This is a work of fiction inspired by recurring themes in the news. All characters, names, and events are invented and do not depict real people or organizations. Ranger Danjuma had worked wildlife enforcement long enough to recognize the specific weight of a suspicious shipment before the crates were even fully opened, something in how carefully or carelessly they'd been stacked, how the paperwork read a little too smooth for what it claimed to be transporting. This one had claimed agricultural equipment. "Open it slowly," he told the younger officer, Peter, who'd been on the unit for barely four months. "Whatever's inside has already had a hard enough journey." Inside, cramped into spaces built for cargo, not living things, were two young chimpanzees, a scattering of reptiles that included, unmistakably, an albino alligator that shouldn't have existed this far from its native range at all, and paperwork designed to move all of it across a border ...

NATIONAL Tinubu Orders NDDC To Begin Reconstruction Of Warri-Benin Highway Shettima arrives in Luanda for AU summit Shettima bans congratulatory advertisements on his birthday 2027: Inside The Battleground States 2027: Why Yari’s ‘APC till 2031’ claim rattled opposition 2027: No coalition needed to defeat Tinubu, ADC boasts; Obi-Kwankwaso movt rejects merger Tinubu’s electric buses timely response to workers’ plight — BAT-IG Umahi slams Critics Over Road Projects FG urges more funding for AU Peace Fund to strengthen peace operations 756 cases in 7 months: Experts seek tougher actions against Nigeria’s sexual violence JAMB Extends Deadline For Acceptance Of Previous Admissions Sanction judges defying superior courts — Lawyers, activists tell NJC Army says hackers attempted breaching official X account BUSINESS CT Productions to Launch FOCUS Insights in Nigeria Again, Marketers, Dangote Refinery Differ Amidst Rising Export Volume NCC pushes local tech investment to cut imports Moody’s ch...

 NATIONAL Terrorism: Reps minority caucus seeks $5bn from external reserves ‘Do I look 80?’ – Atiku dismisses age concerns ahead of presidential election Atiku Vows To End Insecurity In One Year If Elected KASU Management Begs ASUU To Suspend Strike Atiku: I Have Evidence Tinubu Is 90 Years Old ‘Tinubu not an average politician’ — Duke rallies opposition for unity NPC Chairman, Aminu Wushishi, dies after brief illness FULL LIST: Nigerians On Fresh US Deportation List Cholera Cases Decline But Outbreak Not Over — NCDC 2027: Group demands 5% APC campaign slots for Diaspora Thailand, Nigeria deepen agricultural ties Canada increases proof of funds for Nigerians, other foreign students NDLEA trains 100+ counsellors on drug rehabilitation service Customs seize Gorillas, Chimpanzees, Albino Alligators in Kano wildlife trafficking bust BUSINESS FTSE Russell reclassification to deepen Nigeria’s capital market — Popoola Nigeria eyes $12 billion to tap into $7 trillion global halal market MT...

This is a work of fiction inspired by recurring themes in today's news. All characters, names, and events are invented and do not depict real people or organizations. Dr. Uzoma had rehearsed the announcement to his colleagues in Manchester for weeks before he actually made it, expecting resistance, or at least the raised eyebrows that had greeted similar decisions by people he'd known who'd tried the reverse journey and, in some cases, quietly tried it again in the other direction within a year. "You're sure about this?" his consultant, Dr. Whitfield, asked over coffee in the hospital canteen. "The system here isn't perfect, but it's stable. What you're describing back home sounds like starting over from difficult ground." "It is difficult ground. I'm not romanticizing it." Uzoma had turned this decision over enough times to have stripped it of illusions. "But stable isn't the same as where I want to spend the ne...

NATIONAL Tinubu Swears In Enitan As Head Of Civil Service. Read story Tinubu Meets APC Governors At Presidential Villa. Read story 2027: Tinubu has done a lot for Nigerians, he’ll be re-elected — Akpabio. Read story Atiku backs fuel subsidy as presidency flags ₦19.1tn funding burden. Read story Fuel subsidy: Atiku’s third U-turn exposes political posturing — PRESIDENCY. Read story Falana rejects defense of VDM’s conference role, demands experienced speakers. Read story 2027: I’m Nigeria’s incoming youngest president, says 35-year-old DLA candidate. Read story ‘Panic Reaction To Atiku’s Plan’ — ADC Mocks FG’s $1bn Social Fund. Read story NELFUND: N322bn Disbursed To Students Since Inception. Read story Get rid of ‘kakistocrats’ in your govt or else… — Ndume warns Tinubu. Read story FG launches $1bn HOPE programme to move vulnerable Nigerians to self-reliance. Read story Poorly designed roads, public facilities trap PWD. Read story Opposition Summit: G100 lists focal areas, names expecte...

  This is a work of fiction inspired by recurring themes in today's news. All characters, names, and events are invented and do not depict real people or organisations. Efe stood at the gate longer than he needed to, the paperwork already signed, his name already crossed off a list somewhere inside, and still he hesitated before stepping through, as though some part of him expected someone to call him back. Nobody did. His sister Blessing was waiting outside, exactly where she'd promised she'd be, though she looked older than he remembered, the two years having settled into her face in ways he hadn't been present to watch happen gradually. "You look thinner," she said, which was as close as she could get, in that first moment, to saying everything else she meant. "I'm fine. Better than fine, actually." They didn't talk much on the walk to the bus stop. Efe found himself noticing things he hadn't expected to notice, the specific nois...

 NATIONAL Tinubu: Hausa People Are Pillars Of Nigeria’s Progress Presidential campaign council list to be adjusted, not reviewed — Presidency 2027: Tinubu’s aide identifies ‘arithmetic flaw’ in Atiku’s petrol subsidy plan 2027: We Are Competing With Thieves, Says Atiku FG accelerates police reform to curb self-help, insecurity in communities Onoh faults APC campaign council, warns Tinubu over South-East exclusion Sowore: What Amaechi Offered Me After NBA Clash Electric Buses: Walson-Jack links workers’ welfare to better public service Southern, middle belt leaders vow to resist land grabbing by Fulani pastoralists NCC seeks homegrown tech to bridge digital gap for PWDs Russian chess official dies of suspected malaria after Nigeria trip REA launches RAMCO to tackle post-commissioning decay of renewable assets BUSINESS Take capital market disputes to tribunal, IST tells lawyers Huawei Nigeria IP&OpticX Club 2026 showcases secure networks for Nigeria’s digital future Commercial pa...

This is a work of fiction inspired by recurring themes in today's news. All characters, names, and events are invented and do not depict real people or organisations. Tobi had filmed weddings, burials, and birthday parties for six years with a secondhand camera he'd bought in instalments, never quite able to save enough to upgrade it, always telling himself the next job would be the one that changed things. He hadn't expected the message that arrived on a Tuesday afternoon, forwarded from a friend who did production work for a well-known actress's foundation. They'd seen a short reel he'd posted online, unpaid work from a friend's small film project, cut together late at night after his regular jobs were done. "They want to sponsor someone for a film programme abroad," his friend told him over the phone. "They liked your eye. You said something about how you framed grief in that one funeral clip, respectfully, not exploitatively. They want...

  NATIONAL Eid-El-Maulud: Imbibe Virtues Of Prophet Muhammad, Tinubu Tells Muslims Benin-Agbor-Asaba Gridlock: Tinubu orders urgent intervention APC denies withdrawal of 2027 presidential campaign council list Obi disagrees with Atiku on fuel subsidy removal Eid-el-Maulud: CAN urges Nigerians to reject division El-Rufai: Northern Elders Must Rise Above Differences – ADC Chieftain. Mawlid: Natasha calls for peace, compassion, religious tolerance Tinubu, Jonathan, Diri, Dickson celebrate Walson-Jack at retirement 2027: Ijaw leader urges politicians to focus on issues Ejimakor urges court to consider Kanu’s bail application Air Peace honours military personnel with standing ovation Troops rescue 6 victims, nab terrorists in North-West Navy warns against irregular migration, evacuates nine stowaways. BUSINESS Eastern Ports Rehabilitation: FG awards Escravos Channel dredging, breakwater reconstruction Chinese imports from Nigeria jump 81% to $2.25bn after zero-tariff policy E-payment tr...

  NATIONAL Centre backs Tinubu’s national defence plan committee 5 experienced campaigners missing from Tinubu’s 2027 APC campaign council FAAC bonanza: Govs face questions as payouts hit N47tn Yari: APC Will Rule Nigeria Beyond 2031 US warns of permanent visa ban over forged documents ‘Phantom’ Agency: ‘Court Order Protects Us’ — DG Marked For Arrest Speaks. Terror Financing: NFIU exposes use of women, dead persons to launder funds HURIWA hands FG three-week ultimatum to probe South-East killings Ex-Gombe governor Goje debunks defection rumour, reaffirms APC membership. JAMB breaks new ground, allows home upload of O’Level results FG releases 2026/2027 Unity Schools admission list How cancer symptoms can be mistaken for ulcer — Aproko Doctor Fuel subsidy return could reverse Nigeria’s economic gains, Idris warns. Stakeholders calls for women inclusion in fighting insecurity Navy appreciates rousing reception received by personnel at airport BUSINESS Fidelity bank delays H1 results...