Today’s Headlines:2027: Judge my administration by lives touched, projects completed – Tinubu ; Jonathan to unveil Buhari biography

President Bola Tinubu has urged Nigerians to judge his administration by the lives its decisions have touched and the projects it has completed.

Tinubu made the appeal through Vice-President Kashim Shettima at the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential campaign rally held on Thursday in Benin City, Edo State.

Shettima, who reeled out some of the administration’s achievements in the last three years, urged Edo residents to reciprocate the Federal Government’s interventions in the state by voting for Tinubu in the January 16, 2027 presidential election.

According to him, the administration was seeking another mandate to complete ongoing projects and fulfil its outstanding commitments to Nigerians.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan will be the chief presenter of Muhammadu Buhari: The Authorised Biography at a public presentation in Abuja on Thursday, November 19, 2026, with President Bola Tinubu expected as guest of honour.

Meanwhile, the biography revealed that Buhari declined to resist the military coup that ousted him from power on August 27, 1985, despite having loyal military officers ready to defend his regime, because he feared that fighting back would result in bloodshed

Chairman of the Planning Committee and former minister of water resources, Suleiman Adamu, told newsmen yesterday that the event would be chaired by former President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger Republic.

The Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, has cancelled the leave of police personnel assigned to election security ahead of the 2027 general elections and ordered an intensified crackdown on bandits nationwide.

Disu also directed the immediate deployment of additional personnel, mobility, and air support to communities affected by bandit attacks, and gave Commissioners of Police in affected states 72 hours to submit updated security threat assessments and operational requirements.

The police chief announced the directives on Wednesday during the monthly conference with strategic senior officers of the Nigeria Police Force in Abuja.

The IGP, who acknowledged that bandit attacks were still ongoing in some states, said the police would intensify intelligence-led operations and strengthen collaboration with local communities to tackle the security challenges.

Host Communities of the Oil Mining Lease (OML-58) in Rivers State have been urged to maintain peace in order to attract the needed development to their areas

Executive Director, Joint Venture Asset, TotalEnergies, Obi Imemba, made the call during the opening ceremony of the 2026 NNPC/TEPNG JV OML-58 annual football tournament for host communities at the Obite Civic Centre in the Ogba/Egbema/Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State.

Imemba, who was represented by TotalEnergies Manager, Stakeholder Management, Mr Henry Ehuike, also called on the leadership of host communities to influence more youths to shun pipeline destruction, drug abuse and other social vices.

He said the competition, which began in 2002, is one of the ways the NNPC-TPNG joint venture promotes inclusiveness and fosters harmonious relationships among youths of its host communities, bringing them together, thereby promoting peace and unity.

A Nigerian business leader and oil and gas expert, Chief Shina Luwoye, has raised the alarm over the persistent activities of syndicates involved in petroleum product diversion, adulteration and unsafe domestic gas practices across Ogun State and major transit corridors in the South-West.

The energy expert made the disclosure in Abeokuta while receiving executive members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Ogun State Council, who paid a courtesy visit to the headquarters of Ecogas Energy Resources Limited on Thursday.

According to him, illicit product siphoning, locally referred to among cartels as “truck parties”, involves rogue tanker drivers conniving with criminal elements within host communities to steal and compromise petroleum products in transit.