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Kenneth Okonkwo, a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and aide to the party’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, has explained that the choice of former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi as running mate for the 2027 election was intended to demonstrate that Atiku holds no prejudice against the Igbo people. Okonkwo made the…
Bello Hassan was seated in his classroom with a pen in hand, writing a test, when armed men stormed his school in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State and marched him into the forest at gunpoint. Fifty six days later, the 15 year old walked out of captivity carrying an unexpected message. “Since…
Nigeria’s electoral umpire has opened a fresh front in its long running struggle to clean up a bloated and ageing voters’ register, announcing plans to lean on the country’s national identity database to strip out duplicate entries and tighten verification before the 2027 general election. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Wednesday…
Three political parties failed to upload the names of their presidential and vice-presidential candidates to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) portal before the deadline of 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, July 14, 2026. An INEC official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, identified the affected parties as the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), the…
Peter Obi has returned to the argument that has defined his political brand for close to a decade, that Nigeria’s fortunes turn on the quality of the people who govern it, choosing this time a policy forum in the German capital to press the case ahead of the 2027 general election. The presidential candidate…
Terror walked into a Nigerian classroom again on Tuesday evening when armed men stormed Government Secondary School, Odo-Ekina, in the Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State, and seized the school principal, a National Examinations Council ad hoc official and four students who were seated for the ongoing NECO Senior School Certificate Examination. The Kogi…
Weeks of evasion ended for Adeniyi Adeyemi on Tuesday when operatives of the police Intelligence Response Team tracked the self styled Director General of the disputed Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council to a hideout in Osun State, only hours after a Federal High Court in Abuja ordered his arrest. The swift sequence of events…
The United States dollar retreated against major currencies on Tuesday after a sharper than expected slowdown in American inflation weakened the case for a Federal Reserve interest rate increase this month, even as a fresh flare up between Washington and Tehran over the Strait of Hormuz kept crude oil prices elevated and markets…
A bench warrant now hangs over Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, the self styled Director General of a council the Presidency insists never existed, after he failed to appear at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday for an arraignment that has stalled five separate times. Justice Mohammed Umar issued the order following an…
President Bola Tinubu has formally moved the battle to establish state police to the doorstep of the House of Representatives, transmitting the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Alteration) (State Police) Bill, 2026, in a bid to secure the constitutional backing that would end more than two decades of debate over how Nigeria polices…
