@dailyplug9ja: Here’s everything that happened in Nigeria in the last 12 hours. ADC presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar has officially appointed Nollywood actor Kenneth Okonkwo as his campaign spokesperson, tasked with driving the party’s message after Okonkwo publicly criticized his former political allies. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has reported a sharp financial decline for May 2026, with total revenue dropping by thirteen percent to 4.3 trillion naira and net profit slipping to 462 billion naira despite stable oil production. Operatives of the ICPC have arrested former Minister of Science and Technology Uche Nnaji at the Abuja airport over serious allegations of certificate forgery, subsequently securing a court warrant to detain him for fourteen days for urgent interrogation. The Presidency has criminally charged Adeniyi Adeyemi for forging an appointment letter from the Chief of Staff to pose as a Director-General, operating thirty-four bank accounts and deceiving foreign diplomats in a massive, high-level financial fraud scheme. A Federal High Court has sentenced former driver Jonathan Marcus to death by hanging for the brutal murder of his eighty-year-old employer Adebola Ezekiel and his wife at their Apo Legislative Quarters residence in Abuja in April 2024. Security operatives in Cross River State have successfully dismantled a notorious child trafficking syndicate running a fake pregnancy scheme, arresting four female suspects and rescuing a newborn baby who was about to be sold for millions of naira. The Bayelsa State Government has received a four million dollar grant from the World Bank to support its "HOPE" governance program, which targets massive reforms and improvements in the state's critical education and primary healthcare service sectors. African Action Congress presidential hopeful Omoyele Sowore has vowed that if elected, he will completely scrap the "outdated" JAMB and NYSC systems, replacing the youth service with a voluntary job corps to better serve Nigeria's young population. Presidential candidate Peter Obi has pledged that his administration would establish functional primary healthcare centres in every single one of Nigeria's eight thousand political wards to drastically reduce infant mortality and improve grassroots health access across the nation. The Nigeria Union of Teachers in Oyo State has suspended its indefinite strike action and directed all teachers to resume work immediately, complying with a directive from the national leadership to allow for further negotiations with the state government. #trendingnews #newsupdate #nigerianews

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