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"We both looked into the abyss, but when it looked back at us, you blinked!" —WAYNE, Bruce. Undated.

Meshach Ngbede Adikwu, a resident of Shasha in the Alimosho local government area of Lagos State, has been caught grooming and engaging in sexual relations with a 16-year-old girl. However, Adikwu remains a free man with no arrest made.👇🏾

Policemen attached to Alapere Police Station in the Ketu area of Lagos State detained a phone repairer and seized four phones from him on Friday. No crime was established against the phone repairer but the police still extorted N30,000 from him and held on to the phones.👇🏾

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Ezzy International College of Nursing verbally expelled a student after she shared a harmless opinion in a WhatsApp group. Then it tried to intimidate her for speaking up by writing a petition to the DSS. Now, the school has petitioned an Assistant Inspector General of Police.👇🏾

Dare Matthew Kolawole, who works with House of Praise and Prayer (HOPAP), a charitable organisation in Canada, took clients' 120,635 Canadian dollars between 2024 and 2025 but failed to provide the work permits he promised them. Now, he's stopped responding to their inquiries.👇🏾

Ebonyi State's Ezza North Local Government Area received at least N3.2 billion from the Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) over six months. Yet, pupils are sitting on the floor inside muddy classrooms in one of its community primary schools.👇🏾

The Convicted Sexual Offenders’ register on the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) website has been inaccessible for an unspecified period of time. This effectively cuts off public access to a database of sex offenders in Nigeria.👇🏾

After every attack in Plateau State, the dead are buried, officials promise action and communities are left waiting for justice that rarely arrives. @fijnigeria’s Emmanuel Uti met with survivors to learn how grief becomes anger while fear gives way to thoughts of reprisal.👇🏾

Arik Air has refunded N105,000 to an Oyo State-based public officer whose Lagos–Port Harcourt flight was cancelled twice by the airline. The refund arrived less than 24 hours after @fijnigeria published a story about Arik Air's failure to refund the N105,000 for five months.👇🏾

Felix Barau, a phone vendor, collected N200,000 from an executive assistant in Oyo for an iPhone 14 Pro Max advertised at a “giveaway price”. Then he stopped communicating and failed to deliver the device. Barau is reading messages sent to him, but he's refusing to respond.👇🏾

President Bola Tinubu has offered yet another promise after at least 39 students and seven ⁠teachers were kidnapped from Baptist Nursery and Primary School in Oriire LGA, Oyo State. Tinubu has yet to rescue 176 Kwara women and children three months after the Woro massacre and mass abduction.👇🏾

Lagos State lawmaker Desmond Elliot has revealed that President Bola Tinubu told lawmakers to reinstate impeached Speaker Obasa, and they did so without asking questions. Lawmakers were made to act in Tinubu’s interest without thinking, even to the point of being “confused”.👇🏾

@sodeeqaatanda Thank you, Sodeeq.💪🏾

Working non-stop behind the scene to give our readers great stories that taste like fine wine every single day is simply admirable. Well-deserved, @JosephAdeiye. It's a privilege working with you. ‘Tireless Worker’ Joseph Adeiye Appointed Editor of FIJ fij.ng/article/tirele…

The Makinde police division in Oshodi, Lagos, has detained a policeman after @fijnigeria showed that he illegally seized a bike from a commercial motorcyclist he tried to extort on Sunday. The policeman's superior said that he'll spend one week in a cell for his actions.👇🏾

Four years after passing enabling legislation for independent audit, Ogun State still does not to have a functional audit commission in operation despite budgeting a combined N302 million for it over three years. All of the funds meant for the commission was left untouched.👇🏾

In December 2025, the Senate passed the Federal Audit Service Bill, concluding legislative work on a reform designed to overhaul Nigeria’s public audit system. This is meant to replace the colonial-era Audit Ordinance of 1956, but President Tinubu, like Buhari, is stalling.👇🏾

Adeiye joined @fijnigeria in February 2022 and has worked his way up the ladder as Senior Reporter, Acting News and Features Editor, News and Features Editor and Acting Editor. ‘Tireless Worker’ @JosephAdeiye Appointed Editor of FIJ fij.ng/article/tirele…

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) and the presidency have misinformed Nigerians with more contradictory statements on the controversy surrounding the killing of ISIS/ISWAP leader Abu-Bilal Al-Minuki in May and two years earlier on paper. A closer look at the discrepancies.👇🏾

Yes, DHQ’s 2024 Announcement of ISIS Leader’s Killing False, but Trust Us This Time — Presidency fij.ng/article/yes-dh…

The presidency has admitted that the Defence Headquarters falsely claimed on April 4, 2024, that they killed ISIS/ISWAP leader Al Bilal Al-Minuki. Tinubu’s spokesperson Bayo Onanuga tried to regain public trust through an unsigned statement today, citing “higher confidence”.👇🏾