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Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and President Bola Tinubu’s administration have locked horns over a grim security record. Atiku seized on reports showing 5,091 violent deaths over three months to demand the president’s resignation. He blamed fiscal indiscipline and budget padding for starving frontline troops of necessary hardware. Numbers tell a terrible story. The former vice-president…
A frontline rights group wants Nigeria’s top politicians to expose their personal wealth ahead of 2027. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project challenged President Bola Tinubu and opposition leaders to disclose their assets. Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi lead a nineteen-candidate list facing the voluntary challenge. SERAP deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare issued the demand in…
Fresh court documents show Nigeria’s anti-graft agency secretly froze three Osun State government accounts rather than the single bank facility it publicly acknowledged. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission obtained a sweeping ex parte court order in Abuja on August 5th to lock down state money. Investigator affidavits targeted both the state’s primary federal allocation…
Christopher Imumolen, factional national chairman of the Accord Party and its presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, has withdrawn from the 2027 presidential contest and declared support for President Bola Tinubu’s bid for a second term, in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, August 5, 2026, and circulated by the News Agency of…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has launched a blistering critique of President Bola Tinubu’s economic claims, insisting official statistics conceal widespread hardship. In a statement issued by his media aide Phrank Shaibu, the opposition leader argued that the macroeconomic recovery narrative collapses in the face of shuttered factories and hollowed-out family budgets. Polished charts do…
Barely a year to the 2027 general elections, the African Democratic Congress, ADC, has thrown a direct challenge at two institutions meant to stand above partisan politics, accusing the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the Nigeria Police Force of drifting toward the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The party’s grievance, set out on…
A combative pledge by President Bola Tinubu to “wrestle” his rivals ahead of the 2027 general election has drawn a sharp rebuke from former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, reigniting a bitter contest over the state of Nigeria’s economy and the direction of the country’s public finances. Tinubu had, during an audience with the leadership…
Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara did nothing wrong by reconciling with the political camp that produced him, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has declared, insisting that “there is no sin in politics” as the two men close the book on a rift that plunged the oil rich state into more than…
The African Democratic Congress has waved aside a forecast by former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, that its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, will lose the 2027 election, describing the projection as a personal prayer rather than an evidence based assessment. Special Adviser to the ADC National Chairman on Research, Policy…
Senator Adams Oshiomhole has thrown his weight behind the use of lethal force against armed criminals, faulting the Inspector General of Police, Olatunji Disu, for sounding apologetic about the shooting of suspects and insisting that officers should open fire on gunmen without hesitation. The Edo North lawmaker, who spoke on Monday during an interview…
