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Good morning, Andy!
Nigeria’s military rescued more than 300 people in what the presidency has described as the largest single-day rescue operation in the country’s history. The victims, including 163 people abducted during a February attack on communities in Kwara State and at least 145 others taken in Niger State, were freed from the Kainji Lake National Park in a joint security operation.
Meanwhile, President Tinubu approved a salary increase of between 30 and 80 per cent for members of Nigeria’s Armed Forces, with junior soldiers receiving the largest adjustment of 80 per cent, effective 1 September 2026. The increase will raise the annual military wage bill from ₦660 billion to ₦924 billion, an additional ₦264 billion in personnel expenditure.
Across the continent, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo surpassed 4,000 confirmed cases, with 1,850 deaths making it the world’s second largest outbreak on record and the fastest-spreading.
In The Republic this week, Ibukunoluwa Omole examines one of the most consequential unanswered questions in Nigerian religious life: ‘Who Will Succeed Pastor E. A. Adeboye?’ At 83, the general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), one of the world’s biggest churches, has given no public indication for what comes next. Omole traces how Adeboye built a global religious institution and, in doing so, made the question of succession as much a matter of statecraft as of faith
Read it here.
Tomi Olugbemi,
Audience Editor, The Republic
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