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Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, has said he would moderate petrol pump prices across the country if elected president in 2027 by removing corruption from the subsidy system and improving domestic refining arrangements. Speaking in an interview on Arise Television on Thursday, 10 September 2026, Obi stated: “We’ll moderate fuel…
The clinic on Rama 1 Road in Bangkok’s Pathum Wan district had a file on Igho Ubiribo going back to 2024. By the time Thai health inspectors walked through its doors on 7 September 2026, that file recorded five separate procedures on the same patient, the last of which preceded his death by a matter…
A man who allegedly presented himself online as the personal assistant to Nigeria’s examinations chief is in police custody, and investigators say the bank account he used to collect money belonged to a relative who had been buried weeks earlier. The Nigeria Police Force says the suspect, Nwogba Arinze, was picked up on August 27,…
Peter Obi has returned to the most contested question of Nigeria’s last presidential election, alleging that the man who presided over it was not neutral. Speaking in an interview with ARISE News, the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress said Mahmood Yakubu, who chaired the Independent National Electoral Commission through the February 2023 poll,…
Social Democratic Party presidential candidate Adewole Adebayo says he would find a place in his cabinet for Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, but only on one condition: that the minister says a great deal less in public. Speaking in an interview with Symfoni, Adebayo offered an assessment that resists the…
Nigeria’s 2027 campaign season produced its first significant security controversy this week, and the police response has been unusually swift. The Benue State Police Command says it has arrested 46 people in connection with the obstruction of the movement of Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, during his visit to the…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to upload and use the modified digital logo of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, resolving a dispute that had left the new opposition party campaigning with two competing symbols months before the 2027 general elections. The judgment was delivered on September 8, 2026…
The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has formally opened its campaign for the 2027 governorship and House of Assembly elections, moving the ruling party in Nigeria’s commercial capital from internal organisation into open contest with voters. The launch, declared by state chairman Pastor Cornelius Ojelabi and reported by Vanguard, carries the…
A former governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has accused the incumbent, Hyacinth Alia, of orchestrating the blockade that stopped Peter Obi’s convoy from reaching Yelwata this week, an allegation the state government rejects and one the police say they are still investigating. Ortom made the accusation on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, during an…
Former Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has described the debate over fuel subsidy ahead of the 2027 general elections as both an economic and political issue, arguing that opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar’s position on subsidy restoration could appeal strongly to Nigerians affected by rising living costs. Fayemi, a former Minister of Solid Minerals Development,…