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Nigerian Army and Air Force troops rescued Mrs. Rabe Abubakar during an operation in Tunga Village.
Her husband, retired Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar, died while being held by bandits after the couple was abducted in May.
The military has pledged continued operations...
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Nigeria's headline inflation rate increased to 15.93% in May 2026, marking the third consecutive rise this year.
Food inflation also rose to 16.96%, driven by changes in the prices of major food items such as maize, tomatoes, onions and yam.
Adamawa, Kwara...
About 3,000 Borno State trainees have graduated from nine vocational institutes, earning federal government praise and N100,000 entrepreneurship grants apiece to launch productive careers.
Dangote Refinery has raised its ex-depot petrol price by N100 per litre, citing a 26 percent surge in Brent crude prices from the Middle East conflict, while absorbing a fifth of the cost increase itself.
Nigeria's Finance Ministry has pushed back against claims that capital projects are stalling, citing N11.7 trillion in 2025 capital spending and rising federal revenue as evidence of fiscal correction, not collapse.
President Tinubu has appointed Senator Jimoh Ibrahim as Nigeria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, even as a N69.4 billion court judgment against him remains unsettled and hundreds of former workers await wages courts awarded years ago.