The successful rescue was confirmed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman of Ekiti Local Government Council, Dada Sunday, in a statement issued in Ilorin on Wednesday. According to the statement, the victims were abducted from the Eju community after the local market and were being transported through a forest route toward Niger State when the joint security team intercepted the kidnappers.

The House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the alleged operations of the disputed Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) has declared the appointment letter presented by Adeniyi Adeyemi, who claims to be the council's Director-General, as fake. Chairman of the committee, Yusuf Gagdi, made the disclosure on Wednesday during the continuation of the investigative hearing in Abuja. He said findings presented before the panel showed that the documents submitted by Adeyemi lacked authenticity.

Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, or IPOB, has officially fired Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, his longstanding personal attorney, and instructed him to cease representing him, his family, or IPOB in any capacity. Kanu stated in a letter from the Sokoto Correctional Center dated July 22, 2026, that Ejiofor's engagement as his personal legal representative had already been terminated informally and that the most recent correspondence served as official written confirmation of that decision.

A senior financier of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), along with two of his sons, has surrendered to troops of the Joint Task Force North East, Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK).

The Nigerian Army (NA) has declared Private Mohammed Yusuf Amutu wanted over the alleged sale of military uniforms to terrorists and other criminal elements.

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday has sentenced three suspects to life imprisonment for their connection to the abduction of students and teachers in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State.