Daily Trust

01/12/2025

Nigeria’s ambassadors represent the nation’s values, identity, and interests on the global stage.

With 32 new nominees sent to the Senate for confirmation, concerns are rising over whether they truly meet the required qualifications.

This episode of Nigeria Daily explores what makes a competent ambassador, the constitutional guidelines, and the politics surrounding these appointments.

Click the link for more: https://dailytrust.com/nigeria-daily-what-truly-qualifies-someone-to-represent-nigeria-abroad/?noamp=available

01/12/2025

As the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) remains undecided on what becomes of the country’s refineries, experts have advised the government to sell the refineries instead of engaging in needless rehabilitation.

Click the link for more: https://dailytrust.com/experts-push-for-sale-of-refineries-amidst-n2-92trn-investment-in-2024/

01/12/2025

Across Nigeria, clinics are reporting disruptions, shortages, and delays in Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) testing kits, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), condoms, community outreach programmes, and antiretroviral therapy (ART) refills.

Click the link for more: https://dailytrust.com/world-aids-day-patients-fear-resurgence-as-us-halts-funding/

01/12/2025

The Presidency has insisted that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu remains committed to securing every inch of Nigeria by confronting terrorists with strength, unity, and a whole-of-government approach, stressing that former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s suggestion to invite foreign governments to handle Nigeria’s internal security amounts to capitulation.

Click the link for more: https://dailytrust.com/presidency-rejects-calls-to-subcontract-internal-security-to-foreign-govts/

01/12/2025

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has described the death of revered Islamic scholar, Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi, as a monumental loss that creates a deep void in Nigeria’s ongoing quest for unity, peace, and harmonious coexistence.

Click the link for more: https://dailytrust.com/sheikh-dahirus-death-leaves-void-in-nigerias-quest-for-unity-acf/

01/12/2025

Most Rev. Matthew Kukah, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese and Convener of the National Peace Committee, has reiterated that Nigeria is not experiencing a Christian genocide.

Click the link for more: https://dailytrust.com/you-can-kill-10-million-people-and-it-still-wont-amount-to-genocide-bishop-kukah/

01/12/2025

The twelve teenage girls abducted by members of Islamic State West African Province, ISWAP, in Askira Uba Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno State regained freedom on Saturday.

Click the link for more: https://dailytrust.com/military-rescues-12-girls-kidnapped-in-borno/

01/12/2025

The former Vice Chairman of Malumfashi Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nasiru Abdullahi Dayi, who was recently released by bandits after spending 103 days in captivity, has recounted his harrowing experience.

Click the link for more: https://dailytrust.com/ex-katsina-vice-chairman-recounts-103-day-experience-in-bandits-den/

01/12/2025

Bandits yesterday attacked a church in Ejiba Community in Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi State, abducting the pastor, his wife and many worshipers. Daily Trust gathered that the incident occurred while the church service was going on.

Click the link for more: https://dailytrust.com/bandits-abduct-pastor-wife-parishioners-in-kogi/

01/12/2025

A resident of Gidan-Bijimi community in Kawu, Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Thomas Wahab Sarki, has narrated how he escaped being abducted by armed bandits who invaded the community and kidnapped a 16-year-old boy along with six young girls.

Click the link for more: https://dailytrust.com/how-i-escaped-bandits-who-abducted-7-in-fct-community/

01/12/2025

In 2023, the Obidient Movement swept through Nigeria like a cultural and political awakening. Young Nigerians at home and in the diaspora, urban professionals, artisans and first-time voters rallied around a shared belief that they were witnessing the rise of a new political era. Rallies were held across major cities, social media exploded with energy, and Peter Obi, the movement’s presidential candidate under the Labour Party, rode a wave of passion that shifted the national political landscape.

Click the link for more: https://dailytrust.com/2027-is-obidient-movement-losing-steam/

01/12/2025