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TikTok Bans Nigerians From Going Live At Night

Accurate ReportersDecember 8, 2025

TikTok has announced a temporary restriction on access to its live feature during late-night hours for users in Nigeria. The social media platform has issued an in-app notice to creators to inform them. According to the notice, their decision is a part of an ongoing safety investigation. At midnight Nigerian time on Sunday, the platform...

CBN Reduces Number Of Licensed BDCs To 82 Under Revised Guidelines

Accurate ReportersDecember 8, 2025

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has granted final licenses to 82 Bureaux De Change (BDCs) to operate with effect from Nov. 27. A statement issued in Abuja on Monday by Mrs Hakama Sidi-Ali, CBN’s Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, stated that the exercise was in line with its powers conferred under the Bank and...

Pay Us In 1 Week Or We Protest Naked, Pensioners Tell FG

Accurate ReportersDecember 8, 2025

Federal pensioners say they will protest naked if the Federal Government fails to pay their pension increments and palliative allowances on or before December 12. The retirees under the aegis of Coalition of Federal Pensioners of Nigeria made the threat on Monday during a protest in Lagos. The National Chairman of the coalition, Mr Mukaila...

Tinubu Welcomes Release Of 100 Catholic Students, Charges Security Agencies On Safe Return Of Others

Accurate ReportersDecember 8, 2025

President Bola Tinubu has commended the security agencies for their tireless efforts in securing the freedom of the 100 students of Papiri Catholic School in Niger State. While expressing his joy over the safe return of the students, President Tinubu equally charged the security agencies to ensure the swift release of the remaining 115 students...

NLC Threatens Nationwide Protest Over Insecurity Dec. 17

Accurate ReportersDecember 8, 2025

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has announced plans to hold a nationwide prote st on December 17 over insecurity in the country. This is contained in a communiqué issued on Monday at the end of the NLC National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held in Lagos. The communiqué was jointly signed by the NLC President, Mr...

Miners Kick Against Proposed Ban On Mining Activities

Accurate ReportersDecember 8, 2025

The Miners Association of Nigeria (MAN) says banning of mining activities in the country is not the solution to security challenges in the country. The association made this known in a statement jointly signed by its National President, Dele Ayankale and its National Secretary, Sulaiman Liman on Monday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria...

Reps Fix Dec. 15 Deadline For NNPCL To Explain Alleged Revenue Leakages

Accurate ReportersDecember 8, 2025

The House of Representatives Committee on Public Account has scheduled December 15 for Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. (NNPCL) to appear and account for alleged revenue leakage in the company. Chairman of the committee, Rep. Bamidele Salam, gave the ruling in a hearing on Monday in Abuja, after the NNPCL management had failed to honour...

Retirees To Gov Abiodun: Suspend Contributory Pension Scheme

Accurate ReportersDecember 8, 2025

Concerned retirees on Monday appealed to the Ogun Government to suspend the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) policy. A retired public servant, Mr Daniel Akanji, speaking on behalf of the retirees during a protest at the government office in Abeokuta, said the policy was a failed expectation. Akanji alleged that the state government had shown a...

100 Killed In Attacks On Sudan Kindergarten, Hospital –WHO

Accurate ReportersDecember 8, 2025

The World Health Organisation, WHO, on Monday said more than 100 people, including dozens of children, were killed in attacks on a kindergarten in Sudan. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X that the latest attacks on December 4, began with repeated strikes on a kindergarten in South Kordofan state. “Disturbingly, paramedics and responders...

Sokoto: Sabon Birni LG Officials Deny Mosque Killings As Army Repels Attack

Accurate ReportersDecember 8, 2025

The Chairman of Sabon Birni Local Government Area in Sokoto State, Alhaji Ayuba Hashimu, has refuted a Mosque attack alleging that an Imam and worshippers were killed in the area. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a media platform had reported that bandits had stormed a Mosque in Sabon Birni town, killing the...

Troops Neutralise 18 Terrorists, Rescue 14 Victims, Apprehend 47 Suspects Nationwide – Army

The Nigerian Army troops deployed across various Theatres of operation have in the last 48 hours, neutralised about 18 terrorists, rescued 14 kidnapped victims and apprehended 47 suspects in intensified offensives. A credible source at the Army Headquarters told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday that the operations also led to the recovery...

Gov Fubara Dumps PDP, Defects to APC

Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara has announced his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). He made the announcement on Tuesday during a stakeholders’ meeting at the Government House, Port Harcourt. At the meeting, Fubara confirmed to political leaders and selected groups that he had joined the...

NUPRC Denies Withholding Exploration Fund, Says $185m, N14.9bn Released To NNPCL

The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has dismissed reports that it is withholding the Frontier Exploration Fund (FEF) from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC Ltd.). The commission’s Head of Media and Strategic Communication, Eniola Akinkuotu, who dismissed the reports in a statement on Monday said that 185.123 million dollars had been approved along...

Failed Coup: ECOWAS May Deploy Standby Force To Benin

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says it will deploy its regional standby force to defend Benin Republic, if necessary, following a failed military coup in the country. A statement issued by the commission on Sunday in Abuja said ECOWAS condemned the failed coup, describing it as a subversion of the will of...

Ladoja Urges FG To Reopen All Land Borders

The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Rashidi Ladoja, has appealed to the Federal Government to open all land borders in Nigeria to ease the movement of persons and goods across the sub-region as provided under the ECOWAS trade liberation scheme. Ladoja made the appeal when the outgoing Controller of Customs, Oyo/Osun Area Command, Compt. Gambo Aliyu,...

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