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UAE air defences engage missiles, drones; Tehran denies attacking UAE

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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UAE says its air defences are countering missile and drone attacks from Iran, Iran denies involvement, warns of a crushing response, UAE calls the attacks […]

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Donald Trump congratulates PM Modi on ‘historic’ election victory

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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2 min readMay 6, 2026 08:12 AM IST US President Donald Trump congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s on his “historic” election victory, calling it decisive, […]

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Pakistan navy assists Indian vessel stranded in Arabian Sea

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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Pakistan Navy rescues Indian vessel MV Gautam in Arabian Sea, provides aid and repairs after critical technical failure, highlighting regional maritime cooperation. By PTI May 6, […]

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US SEC proposes allowing public companies to opt out of quarterly earnings reports

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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Wall Street’s top regulator on Tuesday proposed ​allowing US-traded companies to switch from quarterly to twice-annual earnings reports, pursuing an idea President Donald Trump has […]

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Court clears ex-HoS Oyo-Ita of N570m fraud charges

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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A federal high court in Abuja has acquitted Winifred Oyo-Ita, former head of service of the federation of alleged fraud and money laundering amounting to […]

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Trump halts ‘Project Freedom’ briefly amid signs of progress in Iran deal

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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3 min readUpdated: May 6, 2026 07:41 AM IST US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a brief pause in “Project Freedom,” an operation launched […]

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Iran US War Live Updates: Trump says Hormuz operation paused amid talks with Tehran

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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Iran-US-Israel War Ceasefire Live Updates: Trump pauses Project Freedom to reopen Strait of Hormuz amid Iran talks. Iran and UAE trade accusations over attacks. Israel […]

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Nostradamus 2026 prediction includes one city which will 'overflow with blood'

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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Nostradamus composed all of his predictions in cryptic quatrains, each said to contain the fate of global events. (Image: Corbis via Getty Images) French seer […]

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Trump pauses effort to escort ships in Strait of Hormuz, citing deal progress

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would briefly pause an operation to help escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, citing “great progress” […]

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NCoS destroys 1,167 phones, sanctions 147 officers

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has destroyed 1,167 mobile phones and other prohibited items recovered from custodial centres nationwide. Sylvester Nwakuche, controller-general of corrections, disclosed […]

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Ernest Obiejesi’s Nestoil $2.1 billion debt blocks dividends in UBA, Access Holdings, FCMB

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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Ernest Obiejesi’s Nestoil owes Nigerian banks approximately N2.9 trillion ($2 billion) and the CBN has blocked dividends at UBA, Access Holdings and FCMB until the […]

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Germany blames Brexit for blocking Madeleine suspect Brueckner from British justice

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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Brexit has effectively blocked any attempt to bring Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner to trial in Britain, German officials have confirmed, dealing a blow to […]

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How to Get Free DISREP Meter and Installation in Nigeria

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has continued its push to end estimated billing through the Distribution Sector Recovery Programme (DISREP), a major initiative supported by […]

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Oshodi-Isolo APC Presents Taiwo ‘Shanana’ Ayedun as Consensus Candidate for Reps Constituency I Seat

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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All roads on Tuesday, 5 May, 2026, led to the Golden Live Inn and Event Centre in Oshodi as many All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders […]

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UBA Denies Divorce Rumour on Chairman Elumelu, Confirms Arrest of Three Suspects

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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United Bank of Africa (UBA) has dismissed as false and malicious a viral social media report alleging that its Group Chairman, Mr. Tony Elumelu, has […]

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S&P 500 Hits New Record High as Oil Prices Ease, Corporate Profits Soar

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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The U.S. stock market rallied to more records after an easing of oil prices let Wall Street turn its focus back to the big profits […]

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Tinubu Engages Global Investors in Paris 

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has met with global investors in Paris, France, emphasising transparency and fiscal discipline, and explaining the rationale for the swift implementation […]

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10m Women Storm Abuja, Unveil Political Charter; First Lady Says They Are Centre of Nigeria’s Future

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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A powerful convergence of women in Abuja on Tuesday signalled the emergence of what could become one of the most influential political and social forces […]

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Gombe Gov Appoints Substantive Statistician-General, Surveyor-General to Strengthen Governance

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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By Segun Adewale in Gombe  Gombe State Governor, Alhaji Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has approved the appointment of Ibrahim Abubakar Dule as the substantive Statistician-General in […]

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Consensus: Concerned Gombe APC  Stakeholders Support Process, Call For Caution 

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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By Segun Adewale in Gombe  Concerned Stakeholders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in Gombe State have thrown their weight behind the recent consensus […]

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SURVIVING BIAFRA: COINCIDENCE OR CHOREOGRAPHY?   

  • David VDM
  • June 10, 2026
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It is both: coincidence in production, choreography in historical effect, argues PAT ONUKWULI Nearly 60 years after the first shots of the Nigerian Civil War tore through the fragile fabric of a young republic, Biafra has returned to public conversation, not as an apology, a restitution, or a national reckoning, but as a memoir and a documentary. General Yakubu Gowon released My Life of Duty and Allegiance, his account of a war he led from the summit of state power in Abuja on May 19, 2026. Almost simultaneously, the BBC released Surviving Biafra, directed by Meji Alabi, on BBC iPlayer and YouTube on June 1, 2026. Coincidence may explain the timing. It cannot erase the symbolism. The question is stark: is Biafra being remembered, or managed? This question is not paranoia. It is prudence. Meji Alabi is an accomplished filmmaker, having worked on major visual projects such as Beyoncé’s Black Is King. His competence is not in doubt. But competence is not neutrality. A gifted director may still be shaped by vantage, inheritance, and proximity. His familial connection to the Nigerian military, his grandfather, a former Nigerian Army commando, gives the film intimacy; it also burdens it with suspicion. Intimacy may illumine, but it may also prejudice. Even the title is uneasy. Surviving Biafra belongs, first, to those who endured starvation, bombardment, displacement, bereavement, and post-war humiliation. For them, survival was not metaphor. It was bone, hunger, terror, and memory. When such a phrase is handled from a vantage associated with the side that prosecuted the war, it risks sounding less like empathy than appropriation. The film therefore carries contrasting meanings: witness and revision; remembrance and erasure; balance and flattening; survival and evasion. The BBC’s role compounds the unease. It is respected, but respectability is not innocence. It is professional, but professionalism is not neutrality. Britain was no bystander in the war. It backed the federal government, defended Nigeria’s unity, and had strategic interests in the outcome. The BBC cannot now approach Biafra as if it floated above that imperial architecture. Frederick Forsyth remains the uncomfortable witness; this does not make him a saint of neutrality. He came as a BBC correspondent, broke with the corporation, and later accused it of failing to tell the full truth about Biafran suffering and Britain’s role. His own position was pro-Biafran, but his rupture matters because it came from inside the British media establishment. Therefore, before the BBC frames the wound, it must confront its proximity to the blade. Again, this is where the language of “balance” becomes morally thin. Yes, both sides suffered casualties. Federal soldiers died. Biafran soldiers died. Families everywhere mourned. But “both sides suffered” is not analysis when it avoids responsibility. There is a difference between casualties and catastrophe; between battlefield losses and mass civilian starvation; between soldiers dying in combat and children dying under blockade; between grief and policy; between pain and power. False balance counts bodies but ignores causes. It weighs tears but forgets weapons. It says everyone suffered while avoiding the essential questions: who controlled the ports, who enforced the blockade, who commanded the state, who received foreign support, and who shaped the global narrative? To some, the film feels less like remembrance than reductionism: not dangerous because it exists, but because it may turn Igbo suffering into archival spectacle while sidestepping the forces that produced it: pogroms, failed federalism, broken negotiations, oil politics, propaganda, and state power. The Biafran War was not simply “a tragic conflict”; it was born from Nigeria’s fractured politics, with the collapsed Aburi Accord standing as one of its great missed bridges. In today’s season of military memoirs, from Babangida’s challenge to the “Igbo coup” label to Gowon’s wartime account, the BBC documentary enters not neutral ground. However, a national wound is still struggling to heal. If the BBC seeks moral seriousness, it must go beyond documentary sympathy. It should investigate Britain’s role: arms, diplomacy, oil interests, humanitarian obstruction, media framing, and the blockade. It should open its archives. It should allow Igbo historians, survivors, jurists, and victims’ families to shape the story’s moral grammar. Gowon, too, should go beyond memoir. He should offer a clear apology to civilian victims, support a Truth, Memory, and Restitution Commission, and call for the declassification of Nigerian and British records. History cannot rest on the recollections of generals alone. The issue is not whether Biafra should be remembered. It must be remembered. The issue is whether it will be remembered truthfully or conveniently; as confession or choreography; as justice or content. If Surviving Biafra preserves testimony, it has value. But if it turns atrocity into atmosphere, dispossession into texture, and starvation into “complexity,” it becomes part of the machinery of minimisation. Biafra is not merely a war to be narrated. It is a debt to be acknowledged. A people who survived Biafra do not need Britain to package their pain, Gowon to footnote their dead, or Nigeria to balance their graves against federal discomfort. They need truth, apology, restitution, and a country courageous enough to admit that what it called victory may have been its deepest moral defeat. So, is Surviving Biafra coincidence or choreography? Perhaps it is both: coincidence in production, choreography in historical effect. It arrives at the precise moment when old generals are polishing their medals and arranging their memories before the court of posterity. It arrives when Britain still has unanswered questions. It arrives when Nigeria is suffocating under the same overcentralised structure that the war helped entrench. Dr. Onukwuli is a legal scholar and public affairs analyst [email protected]

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AOC has final word on Trump costing Knicks and fans a win in NBA finals

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  • June 10, 2026
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has blasted President Donald Trump for falling asleep during the third game of the NBA Finals and blamed him for costing her hometown New York Knicks a crucial…

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RESHAPING GOVERNANCE IN DELTA

  • David VDM
  • June 10, 2026
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Delta State government is making giant strides in critical road infrastructure, writes  JACKSON EKWUGUM Just a little over three years ago, travelling from Asaba, the capital of Delta State, to…

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INEC removes 2,103 double voter registrations in Ekiti

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • June 10, 2026
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it has invalidated 2,103 double registrations from the Ekiti voter register ahead of the June 20 governorship election in the state.INEC Chairman, Prof.…

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NASA unveils Artemis III astronauts to test technology for future moon landing

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • June 9, 2026
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2 min readJun 9, 2026 11:15 PM IST NASA on Tuesday revealed the crew for its Artemis III mission, the next step in the space agency’s plan to eventually land…

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Florida man arrested after allegedly trying to sell stolen radiological device that could have made people ill on Facebook Marketplace

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  • June 4, 2026
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A Florida man was arrested after investigators tracked a stolen radiological device to his home using a Facebook Marketplace listing, authorities said. The suspect, 24-year-old Marco Antonio Benitez Jr., was…

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Washington Post Analysis: Iranian Strikes Damaged 228 Structures at U.S. Bases Across Middle East, Casualties Higher Than Reported

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 6, 2026
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•⁠ ⁠A Washington Post analysis found Iranian strikes damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures across 15 U.S. military sites in the Middle East, far more than publicly acknowledged by…

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Starbucks Korea head fired: Why a ‘Tank Day’ tumbler promo sparked public outrage

  • Taiwo Adebulu
  • May 19, 2026
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3 min readUpdated: May 19, 2026 11:33 AM IST The Starbucks Korea head has been sacked after a marketing campaign triggered public outrage recently. The retail conglomerate, Shinsegae Group, that…

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US government aware of several kinds of alien life, whistleblower claims

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  • June 10, 2026
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UK, Canada, France, Norway Sanction Israeli Settlers Over West Bank Violence

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  • June 10, 2026
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US launches 'self-defence' strikes against Iran after Apache helicopter downing

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Cultural Reclaimation in Pelumi Folajimi’s Mother Africa

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  • June 10, 2026
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Burglary suspect makes escape in self-driving Waymo

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  • June 10, 2026
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Insecurity not just a headline, it’s a broken trust, by Great Evi Ameh 

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  • June 10, 2026
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Trump family ‘made $500 million from crypto coin deal’ — before the bottom fell out on individual investors

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Total Child Educational Foundation Hosted 14th Annual Quiz & Debate Competition For Students In Lagos

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  • June 10, 2026
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My mother-in-law secretly DNA-tested my son — Then a buried secret resurfaced

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  • June 10, 2026
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RESHAPING GOVERNANCE IN DELTA

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INEC removes 2,103 double voter registrations in Ekiti

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