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Joshua Ibanga: The unending scourge of police brutality By Punch Editorial Board on July 7, 2026 – Recommended Nigerian Newspaper Report 64

THE Delta State Police Command is in the news again, and for all the wrong reasons. Once more, officers are accused of taking a human life with chilling brutality.

This time, the victim is Joshua Ibanga, popularly known as Amadi. He was allegedly chased into a river and stoned to death, a killing so barbaric that it belongs in the annals of mob justice, not in the conduct of officers sworn to uphold the law.

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Nigeria’s soaring childbirth costs By Punch Editorial Board on July 19, 2026 – Recommended Nigerian Newspaper Report 63

NOTHING exposes the deepening crisis in Nigeria’s healthcare system more painfully than the soaring cost of childbirth. Across the country, couples who should be celebrating the arrival of a new baby are instead plunged into financial distress.

Continue reading Nigeria’s soaring childbirth costs By Punch Editorial Board on July 19, 2026 – Recommended Nigerian Newspaper Report 63

Let Oriire be Nigeria’s last mass kidnapping By Punch Editorial Board on July 22, 2026 – Recommended Nigerian Newspaper Report 62

TWO weeks on, Nigerians are still celebrating the rescue of 46 pupils, teachers and other school personnel abducted from schools in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State. However, this should not become another fleeting moment of relief before the country resigns itself to the next tragedy. If anything, the horrifying episode should serve as a watershed in Nigeria’s battle against mass abductions.

Continue reading Let Oriire be Nigeria’s last mass kidnapping By Punch Editorial Board on July 22, 2026 – Recommended Nigerian Newspaper Report 62

NELFund: Universities acting in bad faith By Punch Editorial Board on July 28, 2026 – Recommended Nigerian Newspaper Report 61

THE refusal of some universities to refund school fees already paid by parents and students after the Nigerian Education Loan Fund subsequently settled the same tuition is an act of bad faith. It undermines one of the Federal Government’s most important interventions in higher education and betrays the trust of students and their families. It must end.

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ICPC chairman’s extortion: Ugly face of Nigerian policing By Punch Editorial Board on July 26, 2026 – Recommended Nigerian Newspaper Report 60

IT took the extortion of the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Musa Aliyu, for Nigeria to once again confront an ugly truth that ordinary citizens have lived with for decades.

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Misguided plan to raise WASSCE, NECO fees By Punch Editorial Board on July 30, 2026 – Recommended Nigerian Newspaper Report 59

NIGERIA’S season of policy reversals is becoming an embarrassing hallmark of governance. The latest addition is the ill-conceived decision by the Federal Ministry of Education, the West African Examinations Council and the National Examinations Council to raise the registration fees for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination and NECO examinations from ₦27,000 to ₦50,000.

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Pros, cons of amended NIMC Act By Punch Editorial Board on July 30, 2026 – Recommended Nigerian Newspaper Report 58

NINETEEN years after the enactment of the National Identity Management Commission Act, Nigeria has taken a significant step towards unifying its fragmented identity ecosystem. With President Bola Tinubu’s signing of the amended NIMC Act on June 26, the commission now has a broader legal mandate to harmonise identity records of Nigerians, strengthen digital authentication and curb identity theft.

Continue reading Pros, cons of amended NIMC Act By Punch Editorial Board on July 30, 2026 – Recommended Nigerian Newspaper Report 58