Political analysis, national security dispatches, and court proceedings from across Nigeria.
RepsThe House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to urgently address severe erosion in Odi Kingdom, Bayelsa State, warning that the historic Ijaw community could face extinction without immediate remedial action. The demand followed a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by lawmaker Oboku Oforji during Tuesday’s plenary session. The House called for budgetary […]
ConsultingPolice fired tear gas at Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour and Funso Doherty, the Lagos governorship candidates of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), respectively, during a memorial marking six years since the 2020 #EndSARS shootings. The incident happened on Tuesday at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos, where the candidates joined other participants […]
PoliticsFCT Minister Nyesom Wike has urged political supporters in Rivers State to rally behind President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid, declaring that the president is the only political message he wants to hear from the state ahead of the 2027 elections. Wike spoke during a meeting in Port Harcourt with supporters of Governor Siminalayi Fubara and […]
InsecuritySenator Abdulaziz Yari, Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, has defended President Bola Tinubu against criticism over insecurity, arguing that Nigerians should remember that former President Muhammadu Buhari, a retired Army general, also failed to eliminate the problem completely. Yari spoke during a visit to Kebbi State, where he met Governor Nasir Idris, traditional […]
PoliticsPresident Bola Tinubu has insisted that Nigeria will not return to petrol subsidy, defending the policy’s removal and using the biblical story of Moses leaving Egypt to explain why his administration would not reverse course. The President spoke on Monday at Together till 2027: An Evening with Original City Boy, an event organised by the […]
PoliticsKwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq says President Bola Tinubu could find it easier to win the state in 2027 following Nyesom Wike’s inclusion in the APC Presidential Campaign Council and his support for the president’s re-election. AbdulRazaq spoke on Saturday when the campaign council’s Director-General, Abdulaziz Yari, visited the Kwara State Government House. The governor […]