Tuesday, 01 September, 2026

Category: Politics


The group said the alleged activities were aimed at creating division among party members at a time when attention should be focused on strengthening the party and preparing for the 2027 elections. The movement specifically accused unnamed individuals of impersonating Read more…


Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Abdussamad Dasuki, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to reconsider its staggered arrangement for the 2027 general elections and conduct the federal and state polls on a single day. Read more…


The Osun State Commissioner for Environment and Sanitation, Mayowa Adejoorin, has been released by the state command of the Nigeria Police Force after spending almost 24 hours in detention. Adejoorin was arrested in Ilesa on Saturday after a shooting during Read more…


The Northern Ethnic Youth Group Assembly (NEYGA) has called on Omoyele Sowore, the African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, to publicly address allegations that he received foreign funding to destabilise Nigeria. The group’s demand came Read more…


Iran’s politburo-like body known as the Supreme National Security Council said the Strait of Hormuz will not open until the United States “corrects its behavior,” issuing new demands that could shake up talks on a deal to manage the waterway Read more…


John Cardinal Onaiyekan has been known as a temperate, sagacious, and even-handed man for all his 82 years on earth. Anyone now trying to cast him in the mould of a rabble-rouser does so in vain. President Tinubu, in his Read more…


15 killed, 27 arrested  |  Police to deploy over 17,000 officers No fewer than 15 people have been killed, while 27 suspected political thugs and cultists have been arrested by the police ahead of the 15 August governorship election in Read more…


A Chieftain of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Buba Galadima, has said that Nigerians must come together and vote out president Bola Tinubu. This was as he alleged that Tinubu is making things difficult for other political parties to produce Read more…


A former Chairman of the Caretaker Committee in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, Chijioke Ihunwo, has promised to back the candidates of the Rainbow Coalition and President Bola Tinubu’s reelection. Ihunwo, who is a staunch ally of Governor Read more…


The House of Representatives Minority Caucus has accused President Bola Tinubu of issuing what it described as a “panicky, belated afterthought” directive to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), arguing that the move exposed deep contradictions within the Federal Read more…


Imo State Governor and Chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), Senator Hope Uzodinma, has said he is not a voter in Osun State, insisting that his involvement in the forthcoming governorship election is limited to supporting the All Progressives Read more…


Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the African Democratic Congress (ADC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the All Progressives Congress (APC) and other stakeholders yesterday reacted to President Bola Tinubu’s directive to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to vacate Read more…