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  Human rights lawyer Deji Adeyanju has asked the United States, United Kingdom and Canada to consider sanctions against Senator Francis Fadahunsi over remarks he alleged amounted to a threat against members of the Accord Party ahead of Saturday’s Osun State governorship election. Adeyanju said he had petitioned the three countries, seeking possible visa restrictions…

  A war of words over a viral campaign video has plunged Osun State’s already tense governorship race into deeper controversy, just days before residents head to the polls on Saturday, August 15, 2026, in one of the most closely watched off cycle elections in Nigeria’s recent political history. At the centre of the storm…

  A prominent African Democratic Congress (ADC) chieftain, Dele Momodu, has thrown his weight behind Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke of the Accord Party for the August 15, 2026 governorship election, a cross-party endorsement that lays bare how far Nigeria’s opposition coalition project has drifted from the unity it once promised ahead of 2027. Momodu,…

  Nigeria’s fractured opposition is once again attempting to do what it has failed to do since 2015: agree on a single candidate strong enough to challenge the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in a presidential election. A coalition of civic actors under the G-100 platform has set August 18, 2026 for an opposition unity…

  A single clause tucked inside a wide-ranging road safety bill has set off one of the sharpest public debates in Nigeria this year, pitting lawmakers seeking to curb distracted driving against religious bodies who see a threat to a practice older than the Fourth Republic itself. The Senate on July 17, 2026 passed the…

  Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has seized upon a recent classification by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) to assert that the country is sliding into authoritarianism under President Bola Tinubu, intensifying political discourse just over a year before the 2027 general elections. The HRF, through its Tyranny Tracker platform, recently…

  A group of youths in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has taken to the streets to campaign against the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2027 general elections, directly contradicting recent statements by Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike that the state would unite behind President Bola Tinubu’s re election. In a 45 second…

  Five chartered aircraft touched down at the cargo terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos between February and June 2026, each carrying Nigerians whose residence claims in Europe had run out. Together, the five operations returned at least 137 Nigerian citizens from Germany, according to monitoring reports compiled by the Deportees Emergency…

  Two days after the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission handed President Bola Tinubu an interim report on the disputed Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, the African Democratic Congress and a chieftain of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Chekwas Okorie, have rejected the findings and demanded an independent investigation into how a…

  A single unsolicited bank transfer has pushed Nigeria’s fragile financial privacy regime back into national conversation, barely twelve days before campaigning formally opens for the 2027 presidential election. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, said on Friday that an unknown person paid money into one of his private…