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Culture & Tourism

Yuletide: Plateau expects 20,000 tourists at Jos family funfair

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Plateau State is strategically positioning Jos as Nigeria’s premier Christmas tourism destination through a 10-day family funfair, aiming to attract 20,000 visitors and tap into the lucrative festive travel market. This initiative is a calculated effort to rebrand the state as a safe and vibrant hub, designed to stimulate the local economy and create sustainable opportunities beyond a single government administration. The long-term vision is for private sector ownership, ensuring the festival’s endurance as a key economic and cultural driver for the region.

Football

AFCON 2025: Morocco edge Comoros 2-0 in Rabat

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Morocco secured a decisive 2-0 victory over Comoros in their AFCON 2025 opener, demonstrating tactical dominance with 75% possession despite an early missed penalty. The win solidifies their position as tournament favorites, leveraging their status as Africa’s highest-ranked team. Key practical insights include their ability to maintain control and score through both starters and substitutes, even after losing their captain to injury. This match sets a strong precedent for their campaign, underscoring their depth and strategic superiority in the

General News

NASLAF Women leader trains female aides for legislative efficiency

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A national women’s leader has initiated a targeted capacity-building program for female legislative aides, recognizing them as indispensable to legislative effectiveness. The program uniquely combines legislative process training with critical ICT skills development, directly addressing the global shift toward digital governance. To ensure practical application, participants were provided with tablets, bridging the gap between training and tangible workplace tools. This initiative underscores a strategic investment in the often-overlooked support staff who are fundamental to lawmaking, while also extending its impact through parallel community educational support.

General News

LASTMA boosts traffic control ahead of Detty December

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Lagos is proactively deploying an intelligence-led traffic management system to combat the severe congestion expected during the “Detty December” festive season. The strategy focuses on preemptive surveillance of event zones and major corridors, coupled with strict enforcement against illegal parking and road obstructions from businesses. A critical, unique insight is the direct warning to event venues and markets: they are now held accountable for patron spillover and encroachment that disrupt public mobility. Ultimately, this framework shifts responsibility onto organizations and drivers alike, emphasizing

General News

NICOWA secures release of inmates in Enugu

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The Nigerian Correctional Officers’ Wives Association (NICOWA) has demonstrated a powerful, holistic model for prison reform by securing the release of six inmates through financial aid and subsequently providing them with seed capital for small businesses to ensure successful reintegration. Beyond inmate rehabilitation, the association expands its impact by offering health screenings and skill acquisition programs for officers’ families and host communities, directly linking officer welfare to broader societal benefits. This integrated approach underscores a unique insight: effective correctional system reform requires

Defence/Security

DHQ tightens security nationwide ahead of Christmas, deploys troops, air assets

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The Nigerian military has implemented a comprehensive, nationwide security surge for the Christmas period, deploying additional troops, special forces, and air assets to strategic locations and major routes. This proactive strategy emphasizes enhanced aerial surveillance, intelligence gathering, and strengthened collaboration with local communities and security outfits to preempt threats. The success of these measures is explicitly framed as dependent on public cooperation, with citizens urged to remain vigilant and report suspicious activities. Ultimately, this operation represents a coordinated, multi-agency effort to ensure a peaceful festive

Economy/Business

TCN records 5,801.84MW peak in 2025-MD

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Nigeria’s power grid achieved a historic milestone in 2025, transmitting a record peak of 5,801.84 MW, driven by significant infrastructure investments that have expanded the system’s wheeling capacity to 8,700MW. This progress is attributed to the strategic rehabilitation of assets and the addition of over 8,500 MVA in new transformer capacity. However, these gains remain critically threatened by persistent infrastructure vandalism, with 131 incidents recorded in a single year, jeopardizing grid

General News

Sani preaches unity at Kaduna’s Christmas Carol

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Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State leverages the 2025 Christmas Carol to strategically champion interfaith unity as a core governance principle, framing it as essential for stability and collective progress. He asserts that the universal virtues of the season—compassion, service, and dialogue—transcend religion and are critical for leadership and citizenship. By consistently participating in this event, Sani positions Kaduna as a model where deliberate inclusion and bridge-building actively secure a more harmonious future. His actions and

Foreign

Nigeria’s CPC designation by U.S. won’t weaken bilateral relations —Lawmakers

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The U.S. designation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) on religious freedom is framed by American officials as a strategic tool to spur internal reform and constructive dialogue, not to rupture bilateral relations. The designation aims to motivate Nigeria to address inter-communal violence affecting both Christian and Muslim communities, with the goal of protecting all citizens regardless of faith. U.S. legislators emphasize this is a temporary, reviewable status intended to deepen honest engagement and support Nigeria’s own efforts to improve

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