TROOPS of Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) in collaboration with the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) Tactical Team have neutralised 21 terrorists in Adamawa. The terrorists were neutralised during a joint offensive on a Boko Haram/ISWAP camp in the Kopre Mountain general area of Hong LGA. The Acting Military Information Officer, Headquarters Joint Task Force North East, Capt. Mohammed Goni, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. Goni said the operation was conducted in the early hours of Aug. 27 following credible intelligence on the location of the terrorists’ enclave. He said the joint force comprised personnel of the…
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THE ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Medical Sciences, Ondo (UNIMEDO) Branch, has declared a total and indefinite strike over the non-implementation of the 2025 Federal Government-ASUU agreement and unpaid salary arrears. The union announced the industrial action on Thursday after its congress meeting, following the expiration of a 14-day ultimatum issued to the university management. The decision was contained in a communique issued at the end of the union’s congress and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Akure. The communique was jointly signed by the Chairman of ASUU in the university, Comrade Abraham…
THE ESSENCE of Nigeria’s politics is driven by a political economy model in which the formal economy of the country has a separate existence that is subordinated to a second more significant economic model in which the real drivers of the economy are the political actors who inject and subsequently extract liquidity into and from the system. My good friend, S. A. Ndanusa, explains it in the following manner. Nigeria has two economies. There is the official economy monitored by the National Bureau of Statistics. That is where we find inflation, GDP, unemployment, exchange rates and enough decimal points to…
THE NATIONAL Economic Council (NEC), on Thursday approved the reconstituted National Social Protection Council to be chaired by the Vice President, with six state governors as members. The Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Sen. Abubakar Bagudu, made this known while briefing State House correspondents at the end of 158th NEC meeting, held at the presidential villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting was chaired by the Vice President Kashim Shettima, who is the Chairman of the NEC. Bagudu said other members of the council are the Ministers of Budget and Economic Planning, Finance and…
PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday swore in Mr Abel Enitan as the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HCSF). Enitan succeeds Mrs Didi Walson-Jack, who retired from the Federal Civil Service after attaining the statutory retirement age of 60. The swearing-in ceremony held at the State House, Abuja, was attended by the Permanent Secretary, State House, Mr Temitope Fashedemi, and other senior government officials. The Presidency had on Aug. 19 announced Enitan’s appointment as HCSF, effective Aug. 27. Before his elevation, Enitan served as Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, and was the most senior Permanent Secretary…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has directed a comprehensive reform of Nigerian football following repeated failures by national teams to qualify for major regional, continental and global tournaments. The President said the reform must address longstanding weaknesses in governance, administration, stakeholder representation, development pathways, domestic competitions and accountability. This is contained in a statement issued by Presidential spokesperson, Mr Bayo Onanuga, on Thursday in Abuja. “Football, Nigeria’s most popular sport and the greatest beneficiary of public support, investment and national attention, has continued to struggle basically due to structural deficits within the system,” Tinubu said. He said the reform must match Nigeria’s…
THE FORUM of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Chief Executive Officers (PBAT CEOs) has pledged to mobilise support for the re-election of the president in 2027 and the sustenance of the Renewed Hope Agenda. The Convener of the forum and Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the National Board for Technology Incubation (NBTI), Dr Kazeem Raji, made the pledge at the forum’s maiden meeting on Thursday in Abuja. The meeting had the theme: “Strengthening Collective Leadership, Mobilisation and Support for the Re-election of President Bola Tinubu and the Renewed Hope Agenda.” Raji said the forum was established to bring together heads of Federal…
THE GENERAL Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Emmanuel Okechukwu Ugboaja, has died. Ugboaja, 60, reportedly died last Sunday, August 23, 2026, after reportedly battling with leukaemia for over four years. Although rumours of Comrade Ugboaja’s death had been circulating within labour circles since Monday, August 24, 2026, it was however confirmed by the NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, who reportedly announced Ugboaja’s passage to members of the National Executive Council (NEC) holding in Enugu, Enugu State. Ajaero was said to have read a letter from Ugboaja’s family informing NEC of his passing. National Record could not ascertain…
WHEN fictitious Federal agencies can secure physical offices within the Federal Secretariat, forge executive seals, open Central Bank accounts, appoint State and National coordinators and draw official budgetary allocations, the issue goes far beyond administrative failure. It exposes a profound moral vacuum at the core of governance. When the Machinery of the State can be mimicked and monetised from within, legitimacy becomes purely cosmetic. For Nigerian youths, watching this bizarre spectacle unfolds an existential lesson, in high places impunity is not just tolerated it is institutionalised. A nation cannot preach discipline to its youth while practicing lawlessness at its peak.…
COMRADE Oyekan Arije was a man of many parts and he played his roles creditably well with much commitment. He thereby distinguished himself in labour activism, administrator in public service, church leadership, community leadership, rights activism and a practising politician (of a different type). Comrade Oyekan Arije hardly hid his background as a native of Mohin Kingdom in Ondo State as he was actively involved in the local politics of the community for development. Early in life, he got employment in the civil service of the Western Region Government where he rose from the ranks to the topmost cadre as…