Nigeria In Trouble When President Defends INEC, Okonkwo Warns
President Bola Tinubu’s insistence that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) remains impartial has…
Nigeria In Trouble When President Defends INEC, Okonkwo Warns
President Bola Tinubu’s insistence that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) remains impartial has run into sharp opposition pushback, with African Democratic Congress (ADC) chieftain Kenneth Okonkwo warning that a country is in danger when its president becomes the electoral umpire’s public defender. Okonkwo, speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Friday, was reacting…
Solve It, Don’t Explain It: Atiku Tells Tinubu To Drop The Blame Game
A fresh political storm has broken over who owns responsibility for Nigeria’s economic pain, after former Vice President Atiku Abubakar told President Bola Tinubu to stop blaming Muhammadu Buhari and earlier governments and to start showing results more than three years into his tenure. Atiku, now the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress…
South Africa Says 80 Held As Afrophobia Fallout Tests Ties With Nigeria
Afrophobia Under Scrutiny: South Africa Pushes for Continental Migration Summit South Africa has arrested about 80 suspected members of vigilante groups accused of attacks on migrants, a disclosure that lands as the diplomatic strain between Pretoria and several African capitals, Nigeria among them, refuses to ease. The figure was made public by South Africa’s Consul…
Ironsi’s Family Calls for Official Recognition of Injustice
Nearly sixty years after Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi was dragged from a government guest house in Ibadan and shot, his family has placed a pointed demand before the Nigerian state: apologise, compensate, and reconcile. The appeal came from the head of the family, Imo Aguiyi-Ironsi, a nephew of the late leader, during an interview…
INEC Opens 2027 Candidates’ Forms for Public Scrutiny
Voters, party members and civil society groups in Lagos will from Saturday get their first official look at the sworn particulars of those hoping to occupy the presidency and the National Assembly after the 2027 polls, as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) throws open Form EC9 for public inspection. The commission’s Lagos State…
The Flyover Rebuke That Boomeranged On Tinubu
A sharp exchange over how public money should be spent has pitched President Bola Tinubu against a section of civil society, after the President faulted governors for building flyovers and a youth group swiftly turned the same charge back on him over the Lagos to Calabar Coastal Highway. The row traces to Thursday, July…
Power Subsidy Ends in 2027 – FG
Nigeria’s costly electricity subsidy is heading for the exit. Minister of Power Joseph Tegbe announced on Friday that the Federal Government will begin phasing it out from 2027, framing the move as central to rescuing a power sector buried under trillions of naira in unpaid bills. Speaking at a media session in Abuja, Tegbe…
New JAMB Registrar Declares War on Exam Fraud
Nigeria’s tertiary admissions system changed hands on Friday as Prof. Segun Aina formally took over as Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, promising an uncompromising campaign against examination fraud in an institution that processes the ambitions of more than two million young Nigerians every year. At the handover ceremony at the…
Keyamo Declares 2027 Polls Tinubu’s Coronation As He Dismisses Obi, Atiku
Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has declared that the 2027 presidential election will be “a coronation, not an election” for President Bola Tinubu, as he dismissed the electoral prospects of opposition candidates Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar . Speaking on Thursday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme, Keyamo…
Spain Deploys Troops as 49,000 Storm Ceuta Border
Spanish and Moroccan forces have reinforced the border fence of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta after approximately 49,000 people arrived by sea and land in a single day, marking the largest migration surge since May 2021 and prompting Spain to deploy military units while Italy threatened to suspend the EU’s internal open border scheme…