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Officers of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command have arrested a suspected drug baron, one Ofonime Etim, after dismantling a notorious drug bunk in a renewed offensive against criminal elements in the state. A statement issued by the Public Relations Officer of the command, DSP Timfon John, in Uyo on Wednesday, said the suspect was arrested  in Ikot Ebom Itam, Itu Local Government Area of the state while stolen property including assorted drugs were recovered in the operation. According to John, the operatives acting on intelligence conducted a coordinated intelligence-led operation, targeting a criminal enclave suspected to have been a…

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Ogun State and Convener of the Ogun West Initiative, Bolaji Adeniji, has downplayed the resignation of former Senator Iyabo Obasanjo from the ruling party. Adeniji described her departure as having no impact on the APC’s prospects in the 2027 governorship election. Speaking during a media briefing in Abeokuta on Wednesday, Adeniji said the exit of the former lawmaker would not affect the chances of the party’s governorship candidate, Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, popularly known as Yayi. Iyabo Obasanjo recently resigned from the APC after failing to secure the party’s governorship ticket. She…

More than 20 years after liberalisation, Nigeria’s communications sector is advocating extensive policy reforms to tackle emerging technologies, infrastructure deficits and the pressures of a rapidly changing digital economy, writes JUSTICE OKAMGBA Nigeria’s telecommunications sector is preparing for a major policy reset as regulators, policymakers and stakeholders push for a fresh framework to address the realities of an evolving digital economy more than two decades after the introduction of the National Telecommunications Policy 2000. The call for reforms was explored at the National Telecommunications Policy Review Workshop organised by the Nigerian Communications Commission in Lagos last week, where government officials…

If you’ve uploaded a song to YouTube, Google almost certainly considers your video fair game for training its Lyria music AI, it just won’t admit it right now.Their lawsuit is based on the unsupported hypothesis that Google trained on their specific works. Even accepting their untested allegations as fact, the Complaint cannot stand. Plaintiffs each granted YouTube, and Google — which provides the service—a broad license to use the uploaded content. That license, present in YouTube’s Terms of Service, authorized the conduct alleged in the Complaint.This is standard hedging for a legal filing: “you can’t prove we did it, and…

Prediction markets overtook onchain gambling for the first time in the opening quarter of 2026, recording $36.6 billion in volume compared with gambling’s $14 billion, according to TRM Labs.In a Wednesday report, the blockchain intelligence company said the shift followed a rapid expansion in both sectors. Onchain gambling reached $51 billion in 2025, while prediction markets climbed to $54 billion, putting the two categories at comparable scale heading into 2026. Still, onchain gambling remained near record levels. Quarterly gambling volume reached an all-time high of $15 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025, then held at $14 billion in Q1 2026.Neither…

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A section of the Senate wing of the National Assembly was gutted by fire on Wednesday shortly after members of the Senate Committee on the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) concluded the screening of Zainab Marwa as the North-east representative on the commission’s board. The fire originated from the kitchen area attached to Hearing Room 107, where the Senate Committee on the NDDC conducted the screening exercise. PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the explosion of a microwave oven triggered the incident, which occurred when the microwave was left unattended in the kitchen compartment of the committee room. READ ALSO: Akpoti-Uduaghan saga distracted…

The Nigeria Police Pensions Limited has proposed an increase in the Federal Government’s pension contribution for police personnel from 10 per cent to 20 per cent. It said the current contribution structure is inadequate to provide decent retirement benefits for officers after service. The Acting Managing Director of NPF Pensions Limited, Muhammad Dutse, disclosed this on Wednesday during a press conference in Abuja, where the company unveiled a digital platform designed to improve pension service delivery to police personnel nationwide. Dutse said the proposal had already been forwarded to President Bola Tinubu through the National Pension Commission as part of…

The Oyo State Police Command has refuted rumours of alleged terrorist movement into Ogbomoso, Oyo State, reiterating its warning against the spread of unverified information. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Ayanlade Olayinka, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday made available to newsmen in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Ayanlade was reacting to a video and accompanying voice note circulating on social media, alleging the movement and infiltration of suspected Lukarawa terrorists into forests around Ogbomoso and the Old Oyo National Park. The statement read, “The Oyo State Police Command wishes to address and clarify a video and accompanying…

Former Cross River State Governor and presidential candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party, Donald Duke, on Wednesday blamed Nigeria’s worsening insecurity and the estimated N2tn paid to kidnappers in 2025 on years of failed leadership. Duke spoke in Abuja during the presentation of certificates of return and party flags to the PRP’s presidential, governorship and legislative candidates ahead of the 2027 general elections. His concerns came five days after the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mohamed Malick Fall, demanded the release of school children and teachers abducted in recent attacks in Oyo and Borno states. While accepting…