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A decades old United States forfeiture matter that has shadowed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu since his years as a private businessman has been thrust back into the centre of Nigeria’s political contest, this time through the corridors of power in Washington rather than the courtrooms of Abuja. Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C., a Washington based…
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…
African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has unveiled an education reform blueprint for the 2027 election, promising free education from early childhood through university and the abolition of fees for public examinations including WAEC and NECO. Sowore presented the policy document on his verified X handle on Monday, stating that no child…
Barely a day after accepting a fresh role at the heart of Atiku Abubakar’s 2027 campaign, Kenneth Okonkwo has moved to douse the controversy that trailed his earlier rejection of Rotimi Amaechi as running mate, insisting that his objection was never personal and that the country’s electoral law, not internal politics, narrowed the field…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has appointed Nollywood actor and lawyer Kenneth Okonkwo as his spokesperson, ending weeks of open friction that followed the African Democratic Congress chieftain’s public rejection of the party’s vice presidential choice for the 2027 general election. Okonkwo announced the appointment in a statement posted on his official X page…
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress for the 2027 election, has laid out a governance blueprint built around education, healthcare, and mass industrialisation, promising to place human capital development at the centre of any administration he leads. In a statement issued on Wednesday to mark the new month, Obi framed his…
Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has raised the alarm over what he describes as a fresh and coordinated attempt by elements within the ruling establishment to deploy political and legal machinations to keep his party off the ballot ahead of the 2027 general election. Atiku disclosed…
A fresh dispute over Nigeria’s troubled electricity sector has opened between the Presidency and the opposition, after Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, dismissed a campaign pledge by Peter Obi to raise power generation and distribution by at least 10,000 megawatts within four years. Onanuga criticised the recent promise by…
The Presidency has dismissed as “childish, hollow and an unworthy distraction” the call by Nigerian Democratic Congress presidential candidate Peter Obi for President Bola Tinubu’s resignation, framing the demand as a misreading of Nigeria’s constitutional order and a reaction to the All Progressives Congress’s recent electoral gains. In a statement signed on Monday by…
A fresh demand for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to step down has emerged from the opposition, with Nigeria Democratic Congress presidential candidate Peter Obi pointing to the resignation of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as a model of political accountability the Nigerian leader should follow. Obi made the call in a statement on his…
