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Report Links Elon Musk to Viral Belfast Riot Narratives Researchers tracking the online fallout from last week’s anti-immigrant riots in Belfast have placed Elon Musk at the centre of the storm, reporting that violent narratives the billionaire amplified on his platform X reached tens of millions of users within days of a knife attack in…
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, has said elections in the country are often manipulated because citizens fail to take ownership of the electoral process and defend their votes, declaring that the ballot will only count when voters are determined to make it count. The former Anambra State governor made the…
Former Senate President Bukola Saraki has again stressed the critical importance of legislative independence, declaring that a legislature which cannot reject executive proposals has failed its constitutional mandate. Speaking as a guest at The Platform public lecture organised by Covenant Nation on Democracy Day, 12th June 2026, Saraki said lawmakers must be able to…
Rising temperatures across Nigeria are silently stripping common medicines of their healing power, exposing patients to treatment failures they may never trace back to the drugs themselves, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has warned. The agency’s Director-General, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, said the climate crisis, marked by unprecedented heatwaves, has…
The National Association of Nigerian Students and the Take It Back Movement Nigeria traded accusations on Thursday over the abduction of schoolchildren and teachers in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, with each group blaming the other for a violent confrontation that broke out during an earlier protest in Ibadan. The two bodies…
President Bola Tinubu on Friday appealed directly to Nigerian youths to remain in the country and contribute to its development, telling them that Nigeria’s future belonged to those who stayed to solve its problems rather than those who chose to leave. In his Democracy Day address, his fourth since assuming office in May 2023,…
Haiti have been forced to redesign their World Cup shirt only days before their tournament opener against Scotland, after FIFA banned a depiction of a war scene from the kit. An illustration of the Battle of Vertieres in 1803, which secured Haiti’s independence, with the Haitian flag had been embedded on the shirts worn by…
Fresh security concerns have emerged in Nigeria’s aviation sector after a privately operated aircraft that reportedly landed on a roadway near Asaba, Delta State, departed the location and returned to Lagos without obtaining regulatory approval. The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, in a statement issued on Wednesday by its Director of Public Affairs and Consumer…
A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, Kenneth Okonkwo, has published alleged WhatsApp conversations that he says support his claims of bribery involving Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Nigerian Democratic Congress. The posts on his X handle on Wednesday morning followed demands by Obi’s lawyers for N5 billion in damages and a…
Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State has urged those he accuses of sponsoring rising insecurity across Nigeria to stop their actions and allow the administration of President Bola Tinubu to concentrate on governance and development programmes. Speaking on Tuesday at the flag off of the All Progressives Congress campaign for local government council elections…
