News World November 07, 2026 United States offers up to $20 million reward for information on Iran’s nuclear program

The Trump administration is offering a reward of up to $20 million for information about Iran’s nuclear program, the U.S. military’s Central Command announced Friday.

The reward, which is being administered through the State Department’s Rewards for Justice national security program, also comes with “possible relocation” for the tipster.

The State Department said it is calling for “information about Iran’s nuclear program, including its facilities, equipment, and associated personnel, such as those in the scientific community, or the movement of any of the above.”

Since the U.S. launched its war with Iran in February, President Donald Trump has repeatedly reiterated that Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon.

In its reward form, the State Department noted that according to the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran’s uranium stockpile is believed to include uranium that has been enriched to 60% purity – “a level that is a short technical step from” the 90% level required to produce nuclear weapons.

“Iran is the only non-nuclear-weapon state to produce uranium at such a high enrichment level,” the State Department said in its Rewards for Justice post. “Experts estimate this quantity, if enriched further, could be enough for several nuclear weapons.”

Iran suspended IAEA inspections following the June 2025 strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities by the U.S. and Israel.

“The regime’s lack of compliance with the IAEA on safeguards obligations has led to the agency’s loss of ‘continuity of knowledge’ regarding Iran’s production and inventory of key components like centrifuges,” the State Department said Friday.

News Politics November 07, 2026 Amaechi: Buhari promised me APC presidential ticket in 2022, I regret listening to him

Rotimi Amaechi, vice-presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), says he would have won the primary contest of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2022 if he had not listened to then President Muhammadu Buhari.

In an interview with Mainland FM, shared on its Instagram on Saturday, Amaechi said Buhari instructed him not to campaign, promising to declare him his preferred candidate.

The former minister of transportation said Buhari’s promise prevented him from entering into deals or agreements with party stakeholders and state governors.

“Anybody would have defeated anybody in that primary. The first mistake that I made at that primary was that I listened to President Buhari. He said to me: ‘Don’t campaign, don’t do anything; I will announce you as my candidate’,” Amaechi said.

“He told me that and put it in writing; when I write my book, I’ll put it out.

“When President Buhari said that to me, I obeyed him because, one, he is my boss; two, if he actually announces anybody, that’s a plus for you, so I didn’t do deals. So, I would have promised the vice-president to this person, the SGF to another, and then we would have gone for this primary and I would have possibly won. I would have had governors on my side. Because I didn’t do deals, Tinubu had a chance to do deals; that is one.”

Amaechi said President Bola Tinubu, eventual winner of the primary and presidential election, exploited religious sentiments to secure support during the APC primary.

He said a delegation of Yoruba Muslims from the south-west approached governors in the north-west for support for Tinubu on religious grounds.

According to him, the delegation argued that northern Muslims had consistently supported southern Christians during elections.

“Two, Tinubu played on religion; I won’t play religious politics. I remember a delegation of southern Yoruba Muslims went and saw the north-west governors and told them, any time there’s an election, you people support southern Christians; when there’s election concerning the north, we all support you; we are Muslims and for the sake of the faith you need to support Tinubu,” he alleged.

“Didn’t you see el-Rufai in a viral video saying this is done for the faith?”

On June 8, 2022, Tinubu was declared winner of the presidential primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

He polled 1,271 votes to defeat 13 other presidential hopefuls.

Amaechi polled 316 votes, with then Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo garnering 235 votes.

Then Senate President Ahmad Lawan secured 152 votes.

Laolu Akande, ex-spokesperson to Osinbajo, recently said Buhari promised to support his principal in the buildup to the APC primary contest.

“On at least four separate occasions, President Buhari personally offered to support the Vice-President, telling him plainly: ‘If I don’t support you, who will I support?’,” Akande had said.

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News November 07, 2026 Nollywood actor Diewait Ikpechukwu dies after protracted illness

Diewait Ikpechukwu, the ace Nigerian actor, has passed away at the age of 71 following a protracted illness.

The Nollywood star died on Thursday, family sources said.

His death was also confirmed to TheCable Lifestyle on Saturday by Abubakar Yakubu, national president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN).

While the exact circumstances of his passing remain undisclosed, reports indicate he had been unwell for some time.

Ikpechukwu attended Comprehensive High School in Awo-Omamma, Imo state, and later Kaduna State Polytechnic, where he obtained a higher national diploma (HND) in marketing.

Before turning to acting, Ikpechukwu was a right winger who played football and was invited to the Green Eagles camp in the 1970s. He also featured for Blue Diamonds of Nsukka and Kaduna Rocks.

He served as a team manager, including at Vasco da Gama in Enugu. He eventually moved into radio broadcasting, working as a sports commentator alongside his other pursuits.

In a 2021 interview with The Next Edition, Ikpechukwu recalled turning down the national team invitation because his father wanted him to focus on his education.

His career in Nollywood spanned over 25 years, with appearances in films such as ‘Royal Palace’ (2005), ‘The Guilty’ (2006), ‘Across the River’ (2006), ‘Python King’ (2007), and ‘Ìjé Love’ (2022).

Ikpechukwu’s passing represents yet another loss for Nollywood, especially among the generation of performers who helped define the Nigerian film industry.

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News November 07, 2026 Yari: Nigerians who aren’t lazy should have food on their tables

Abdulaziz Yari, director-general of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, says Nigerians who are not lazy would have food on their tables, as hunger caused by economic hardship pervades the land.

Yari spoke on Friday during the APC presidential campaign rally in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital.

The former Zamfara governor said food items are readily available in markets.

He asked whether residents of Akwa Ibom have been unable to buy foodstuffs despite soaring prices.

“Just as I said, we have hunger. Let me ask a question here. Akwa Ibom people, from where I came from, we have food in the market,” he said.

“I don’t know, in Akwa Ibom, is there any person who took his money to the market and found out there’s no rice? You didn’t answer me. Is there anybody with money in his pocket who goes to the market to get foodstuffs and says that there’s no foodstuffs in the market?

“If there’s no food in the market, that’s what we are calling hunger. But anyone who is not a lazy person, definitely he would have food on his table.”

Earlier on Thursday in Ekiti, Yari challenged opposition parties to explain how their policies would differ from those of the Tinubu administration.

Defending the government’s economic records, Yari cited what he described as a dip in food prices.

He urged Nigerians to hand Tinubu another opportunity, insisting that the administration’s performance should form the basis of the APC’s campaign.

“As we promised Nigerians, we are going to campaign with our numbers, with what we have done for Nigerians. Based on that, Nigerians, we requested them to give us a second chance,” he said.

Yari added that the party is prepared to defend its record, adding that the opposition should present alternative proposals to Nigerians.

News November 07, 2026 Power supply to improve in 72 hours — Minister

The Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, has said electricity supply will begin to improve within 48 to 72 hours as the Federal Government works to address generation and transmission constraints responsible for recent outages in parts of the country.

Tegbe attributed the worsening electricity situation to planned maintenance at Egbin Power Station, Nigeria’s “largest” thermal power generating station in Lagos, which supplies about 16% of the total electricity on the national grid.

The minister disclosed this in a statement titled ‘Update on Power Situation’, posted on his Facebook page on Friday.

“I am aware of the strain that the current outages have placed on households and businesses in four affected states, including Lagos and the Federal Capital Territory.

“Planned maintenance at Egbin Power Station and constraints in gas supply to some thermal power stations have reduced the amount of electricity available on the national grid. Grid operators have, therefore, implemented load shedding in some areas to manage the shortfall,” he said.

Tegbe added that the sabotage of critical transmission lines had restricted the use of alternative routes to supply electricity to some locations, particularly Lagos.

He said his ministry was working with relevant operators to restore affected generating units in phases, improve gas supply and accelerate repairs to damaged infrastructure.

“My team and I are working to return the affected generating units to service in phases, with the first units coming back online within the next 48 to 72 hours.

“We are also working with operators to improve gas supply and accelerate repairs to the damaged infrastructure,” he added.

The minister’s assurance comes amid growing complaints from electricity consumers in Lagos and Ogun states over prolonged blackouts, which residents say have made the prevailing hot weather increasingly unbearable.

Meanwhile, the power crisis has triggered a disagreement between the Transmission Company of Nigeria and Ikeja Electric over the causes of recent supply interruptions.

TCN, in a statement on Friday, faulted Ikeja Electric’s attribution of outages recorded on November 3 and 4 to grid instability, insisting that inadequate gas supply to thermal power stations and reduced hydroelectric generation were responsible for the decline in electricity available for distribution.

The transmission company described Ikeja Electric’s explanation as inaccurate and misleading, arguing that the distribution company had wrongly attributed generation-related shortfalls to the transmission network.

“TCN can only transmit the energy made available to it and cannot transmit energy that is not generated,” the company said.

It also maintained that the Nigerian Independent System Operator had not identified any failure of its transmission network as the cause of the outages.

TCN attributed 68 per cent of interruptions recorded on feeders supplying Ikeja Electric to frequency-control load shedding caused by low generation, while it blamed 26 per cent on Ikeja Electric’s alleged failure to comply with load allocations, as well as faults and maintenance on its distribution network.

The remaining six per cent, according to TCN, resulted from its planned maintenance, switching operations or line limitations.

The disagreement came after Ikeja Electric apologised to customers on some Band A feeders for failing to meet the minimum daily electricity supply requirement of 20 hours on November 3 and 4.

In an earlier statement on Thursday, Tegbe had also attributed the electricity disruptions to maintenance and operational challenges across the power sector, gas shortages at thermal power stations and reduced output from hydropower plants.

He said the Federal Government was working with TCN, NISO and electricity distribution companies to address the constraints and restore normal supply.

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Crime News November 07, 2026 Court sentences two to death for killing mother, six children in Kano

The Kano State High Court has sentenced Umar Auwal and Yakubu Dayyabu to death by hanging after finding them guilty of murdering Fatima Abubakar and her six children in Dorayi Chiranchi, Kano.

The presiding judge, Justice Nasiru Saminu of High Court No. 11, delivered the judgment on Friday, November 6, 2026, after reviewing the evidence and testimonies presented during the trial.

The court found Auwal, popularly known as Breaker, and Dayyabu, also known as Wawo, guilty of killing Fatima and her six children on January 17, 2026.

The court consequently sentenced each of them to death by hanging.

The court also sentenced the two convicts to life imprisonment for conspiracy and armed robbery.

However, Justice Saminu discharged and acquitted the third defendant, Isiyaku Yakubu, of the conspiracy and murder charges.

The prosecution team was led by Kano State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Abdulkarim Kabir Maude, alongside Barrister Salisu Muhammad Tahir.

According to the Attorney-General, the judgment has vindicated the prosecution’s position on the involvement of the two convicts in the killings and armed robbery.

He also declared the state government’s readiness to pursue the implementation of the death sentence if the convicts failed to exercise their right of appeal within the period provided by law.

He commended the police for what he described as a thorough investigation and praised officials of the Ministry of Justice for their role in securing the conviction.

On the acquitted defendant, Maude disclosed that although Isiyaku Abdul’azeez had been cleared in the present case, he was still facing two separate cases, with judgments expected later.

The defendants were represented by Barristers J. I. Musa and A. I. Baba.

SolaceBase recalls that Fatima Abubakar and her six children were killed on January 17, 2026, at their residence in Dorayi Chiranchi, Kano, in a case that sparked widespread public concern.

News Politics November 07, 2026 Atiku: No court manoeuvre will force me out of 2027 race

Atiku Abubakar has insisted that he remains in the 2027 presidential race despite a federal high court judgement that sacked the David Mark-led leadership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and invalidated decisions taken by the party’s caretaker committee.

In a statement issued on Friday, the former vice-president said the judgement did not reflect the will of Nigerians, adding that he would not abandon his presidential ambition.

He accused the ruling party of deploying political pressure, manufactured narratives and court manoeuvres to weaken the opposition and push Nigeria towards a one-party state.

Atiku also alleged that attempts were being made to compromise the voter register through artificial intelligence (AI)-generated photographs, false names and fictitious identities.

He criticised President Bola Tinubu’s administration over the removal of petrol subsidy, the depreciation of the naira, rising food prices, factory and small business closures, youth emigration and insecurity.

The former vice-president said the economic difficulties facing Nigerians had reinforced the need for political change, adding that his campaign would continue.

“I am in this race, and I am not going anywhere. We will be on the ballot. No threat, blackmail or court manoeuvre will make me abandon you or the cause we share,” he said.

“We will resist with all our strength every attempt to turn Nigeria into a one-party state. Nigeria belongs to all its people.

“Our democracy must remain open to more than one party and more than one voice. If those in power believe in their numbers and their record, let us meet at the polls in a free, fair and credible contest.

“Our campaign will continue. Our message on the cost of living will not be silenced or derailed. Stay calm, united and resolute. Together, we will fight for a Nigeria where life is affordable, and every citizen’s vote counts.”

Atiku’s comments followed a judgement delivered on Thursday by Peter Lifu, a judge of the federal high court in Abuja, which sacked the Mark-led ADC caretaker committee and nullified its decisions, including the process that produced Atiku as the party’s presidential candidate.

The suit was filed by Nafiu Bala, a former deputy national chairman of the ADC (north-east), who challenged the party’s leadership arrangement.

The ADC has filed a notice of appeal and an application for a stay of execution, but the application is yet to be heard or granted.

Atiku said the judgement would not deter him from seeking the presidency, insisting that the final decision should rest with voters.

“Bola cannot use the courts to escape the judgement of Nigerians at the ballot box,” he said.