•Catholic Bishops The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has urged the National Assembly to ensure that the Electoral Act provides for the mandatory transmission of the election results in real-time to prevent any human tampering with the expressed will of the electorate. President of CBCN and the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri, Luci...
The Government of India deported at least 2,356 Nigerians between 2019 and 2024, with removals quadrupling from 339 in 2021 to 1,470 in the 2023-2024 fiscal year. This is according to data obtained by our correspondent from India’s Ministry of Home Affairs. The figures were drawn from three separate MHA annual reports for which Nigeria-specifi...
•IGP Kayode Egbetokun and FCT minister Nyesom Wike The Nigeria Police Force, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command, has announced a 12-hour restriction on movement across Abuja and its environs ahead of the council elections scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, February 21, 2026. In a statement, the Police Public Relations Officer of the FCT C...
•Terrorists ambush Nigerian troops A raid by IS-affiliated jihadists on a military base in Borno State killed eight Nigerian soldiers and injured 23 others, three security sources told our correspondent yesterday. About 70 fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group riding motorcycles attacked a base at Cross Kauwa villa...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has today passed the Electoral Act, 2022 (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill 2026. Before the passage, there was a rowdy session as the upper chamber resumed proceedings with a demand for division over Clause 60 raised by Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (ADC/Abia South), reports Channels TV. The Senate President, Godswill Akpa...
The House of Representatives was thrown into a rowdy session today during a resumed plenary presided over by Speaker Dr Tajudeen Abbas. The sparsely attended session saw the Speaker read the only item on the day’s Order Paper: “Rescission of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2025,” following a motion moved by the Chairman, House Committee [&...
•US military The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) yesterday announced the arrival of about 100 United States military personnel at the Bauchi Airfield to support the Armed Forces of Nigeria in training and intelligence-sharing operations. In a statement, Director of Defence Information, Major General Samaila Uba, said the deployment followed formal ...
•Senators Natasha Akpoti-Uduagan and Titus Zam The lawmaker representing Kogi Central, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, was today involved in another confrontation at the National Assembly, this time at the office of Senator representing Benue North-West, Titus Zam, Chairman of the Senate Committee on the North Central Development Commission. ...
•Protesters at NASS Protesters today returned to the National Assembly, calling on lawmakers to make real-time electronic transmission of election results compulsory in the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, 2026. The demonstrators, drawn from civil society groups including Situation Room Nigeria and ActionAid Nigeria, insisted that manual collatio...
•Trump and Tinubu United States has frozen the assets and properties of eight Nigerians accused of having links with Islamic sect – Boko Haram and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL. The over 3,000 page document released at the weekend by the United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, OFAC, also identified […]...
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