UNICEF has delivered 1.5 million doses in a major vitamin A donation to Bauchi, strengthening child immunity and improving maternal nutrition across the state.
A rescued two-month-old calf is receiving round-the-clock care at Okomu National Park as experts work to rehabilitate and eventually return the rescue baby elephant to the wild.
Nigeria has launched a multi-stakeholder process to update its national biotechnology policy, aiming to align the country with global bioeconomy trends and accelerate scientific innovation.
Political economist Pat Utomi has urged Nigerian authorities to deploy drones for real-time highway surveillance, arguing that aerial monitoring would greatly strengthen the country’s fight against insecurity.
A group of soldiers calling themselves the “Military Committee for Refoundation” announced on state television that they had removed President Patrice Talon and dissolved state institutions in a Benin coup attemt - but within hours loyalist forces regained control, and the government says the coup attempt was thwarted.
The Presidency has clarified that former ministers Wale Edun and Ahmed Dangiwa resigned from office voluntarily and were not removed from President Tinubu’s cabinet.
The Supreme Court has reserved judgment in an appeal by a PDP faction challenging court rulings that nullified the party’s 2025 national convention in Ibadan.
Senate Minority Whip Osita Ngwu has defected from the PDP to the APC, citing internal party crisis, while Senator Aliyu Wadada also announced his move to the ruling party.