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  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. Mr Okeke had been a headmaster for thirty-four years, and in that time, no one had ever asked him to look at the camera. "Look at the little hole, Grandpa," said Zainab, twelve, holding the phone at arm's length like a woman defusing a bomb. "Not at me. Not at the screen. The hole." "Where is the hole?" "There. At the top." "It is very small for something so important." His grandchildren set up the account on a Sunday afternoon, despite his protests and over a plate of puff-puff. They had given him a name, Oga Headmaster , and a promise: "Just talk about your day, Grandpa. People like real life." He did not believe that for a moment. In his experience, real life was a timetable and a register. But he sat in his armchair, adjusted his glasses, an...

 🇳🇬 NATIONAL APC expands Tinubu campaign council with supplementary list . ( The Sun ) ‘I can take bullet for him’ — Uba Sani vows to support Tinubu till last minute . ( Daily Trust ) Tinubu will beat Atiku in North-East in 2027, says Dalori . ( Blueprint ) FG’s $21.7 billion loan request sparks borrowing, debt servicing concerns . ( Leadership ) Nigeria would be rich if leaders left public funds in banks — Obi . 2027: ‘We’ll rig those who rig elections,’ Peter Obi talks tough . ( Leadership ) 2027: Kwankwaso joins TikTok, promises daily life content . ( The Eagle Online ) Moonshot: Atiku woos founders, engineers; promises tax relief for startups . ‘₦70,000 can just buy 50 litres of fuel,’ Atiku mocks Tinubu’s relief to workers . ( Daily Times ) APC chair attacks Atiku over lack of projects in Plateau as VP . ( The Sun ) 2027: ADC alleges plot to shift January 16 election, warns Tinubu . ( Leadership ) 2027: ADC-PCC disowns campaign timetable . ( Daily Trust ) NELFUND moves to st...

  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. The family plan had thirty gigabytes, six people, and no constitution, until Mrs Adegoke discovered on Tuesday that her phone had stopped working at 2 p.m. "Who finished it?" she asked, holding the dead screen like evidence. Nobody answered. Her husband studied the ceiling. Her son Femi, nineteen, suddenly found his sandals fascinating. Her daughter Titi, fifteen, said only, "It might have been the update." "An update that watched forty-one videos?" "Some were short." Mr Adegoke, who had negotiated the plan and considered himself its prime minister, called a meeting that evening. The household gathered in the sitting room with the solemnity of a small parliament and a plate of boiled groundnuts. "We need rules," he said. "Rule one," said Mrs Adegoke...

  🇳🇬 NATIONAL Tinubu woos global defence investors as Nigeria hosts maiden AFRIDEX . ( Blueprint ) Tinubu writes Senate, seeks $20.5bn, €1.04bn foreign loans to fund projects . ( Tribune , Daily Trust ) 2027: APC defends Tinubu’s Kaduna rally speech, says appearance did the job . ( The Sun ) 2027: It’s Time To Compensate Tinubu For What He Did For The North – Bichi . ( Tribune ) Tinubu not dodging responsibility over poverty, says Morka . ( Leadership ) NCDC dismisses Ebola rumours, says no confirmed case in Nigeria . Ebola: Nigeria not yet out of woods, says NCDC, intensifies surveillance, contact tracing . ( Blueprint ) Ebola patient arrives in Switzerland, as Nigeria sustains surveillance . ( The Eagle Online ) Probe panel blames miners’ deaths on overcrowding, extreme heat, dehydration . ( Daily Trust ) Niger miners’ deaths: Committee recommends N1.4bn compensation, dismissal of personnel . ( Tribune , ThisDay ) Nigerians Now Spend 120% Of Income On Food – Oyedele . ( Th...

  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, places or organizations. Ayodele had not opened the app in so long that it asked him to update it twice before it would let him in. His cousin Kemi sat beside him on the sofa, pretending to scroll her own phone while watching his screen out of the corner of her eye. The service had been switched off across the whole country for most of the year. Nobody had really prepared for the quiet that followed, or for how loud it would feel when it ended. "Seven hundred and twelve," Ayodele said, staring at the number beside his messages. "That is a lot of unread." "I was a different person when they started arriving." He had been sixteen when it all went silent. He was seventeen now, taller, with a voice that had finally settled and a habit of rehearsing conversations in his head, a habit that had grown dur...

 🇳🇬  NATIONAL Tinubu appoints Keyamo to head APC air mobilisation for 2027 campaign ( Premium Times , ThisDay ) Hardship: Wike Backed PDP Knocks Tinubu, APC ( Leadership ) APC Warns Against Electoral Violence in Nigeria Obi, Kwankwaso, Dickson Storm Abuja As NDC Launches Campaign Council ( Channels , ThisDay , Blueprint ) Atiku to campaign in all states — ADC campaign council ( Eagle Online , New Telegraph ) Beyond spouting statistics, Peter Obi has nothing to offer — Shettima ( Leadership , Peoples Gazette ) 'Atiku majored in hygiene, cannot rule Nigeria's modern economy' — Shettima ( Leadership ) APC Slams ADC Over Alleged 12 Months of Unpaid Salaries ( Vanguard , Premium Times ) Binari Killings: Northern Senators Seek Security Base Along River Benue Corridor ( Leadership ) One-third of Nigerian children trapped in child labour – IFI Report Pensioners urge FG to pay outstanding entitlements. Wike's scholarship beneficiary emerges ABUAD's bes...

  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. Folasade had wanted the loan for two years, and when the approval message finally arrived, she read it standing at the oven with flour up to her elbows. The bakery was small: one oven, one mixer that shuddered when it was fed too much dough, and a counter with a hand-painted sign that said Fola's Fresh . She baked bread before dawn, sold most of it by ten, and spent the afternoons wondering why she was always tired and never ahead. "This is it," she told her sister Bukola, waving her phone. "Five hundred thousand naira. Now I can grow." "Grow how?" "Another oven. Maybe two." Bukola, who kept the books for a pharmacy and had a way of asking questions as though she were only mildly curious, tilted her head. "And who will bake in the second oven?" "I wil...

 🇳🇬  NATIONAL Tinubu rules out fuel subsidy return, promises economic recovery ( Vanguard ) 2027: Bishop rallies northern christians for Tinubu 2027: Tinubu has lost touch with reality, unaware he's president — Shaibu ( The Sun ) Uba Sani: Bond Between North, Tinubu Strong ( Tribune ) NDC to unveil campaign council, present financial statement at NEC meeting ( Tribune , Leadership ) INEC Figures: How North-West, South-West may hold key to Aso Rock 2027: Sowore slams NDC, accuses Obi of renting party every election ( Leadership ) Pantami: We'll Soon Expose Those Plotting To Scuttle My Guber Ambition ( ThisDay , The Whistler ) Ebola: NCDC tracks 53 contacts, orders hospitals to isolate suspects ( Blueprint , ThisDay ) NCDC approves N100,000 weekly stipend for Ebola contacts ( Daily Trust , The Sun ) 2027: Engaging APC data boys, insult to my integrity — Pat Utomi Court adjourns LP candidate suit against INEC, others to November 6 #EndSARS: Cry of justice ...

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. Miss Amaka had taught math for nineteen years, and she had met every kind of resistance. The pupil who claimed numbers were "not for girls." The pupil who stared at the board as if it owed him money. The pupil who asked, with real sincerity, who had invented zero and whether they could be made to apologise. But she had never met anyone like Adaeze. "I will never understand fractions," Adaeze announced on the first Monday of term, folding her arms. "I have decided." "Decided?" "Yes. It is a decision. Not a problem." Miss Amaka set down her chalk. "Then we shall treat it as a decision, and decisions can be reviewed." Adaeze narrowed her eyes. She was eleven, had a plait that stood up like an antenna, and approached every lesson as a negotiation. For two weeks, ...

 🇳🇬 NATIONAL 1. Tinubu: Opposition Created Hunger, Poverty, We're Fixing Them ( Vanguard , Parrot Nigeria ) 2. Tinubu, Shettima flag off APC 2027 campaign in Kaduna 3. 2027: It's Our Turn To Repay Tinubu, Shettima Tells Northerners ( Leadership ) 4. 2027: Massive Kaduna Turnout Signals North-West's Choice of Tinubu, says Kwankwaso ( Leadership , Vanguard ) 5.  Tinubu Tasks Medical Experts On Brain Drain Solutions In West Africa — Channels Television 6. Some Persons Need Eyeglasses To See My Husband's Achievements — Remi Tinubu 7. Ex-NAHCON Chair: Over N9trn Projects In Kano Enough Evidence For Tinubu's Re-Election 8. Why some people around Tinubu don't want Fashola — Ex-presidential aide ( The Eagle Online ) 9. 2027: Akande recounts how Buhari's govt humiliated Tinubu; urges Atiku to sacrifice ( BusinessDay , Blueprint ) 10. Alake's attack on Atiku won't cut food prices, ADC campaign fires back 11. APC-PCC accuses Atiku of using AI to discredi...