•Peter Obi The presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2027 election, Peter Obi, has decried what he described as the erosion of democratic principles in Nigeria, saying the country is facing a crisis. The former Anambra State governor spoke today at the 2026 Goodluck Jonathan Foundation Democracy Dialogue in Bau...
Nigerian football stakeholders remain divided over calls for the suspension of the Nigeria Football Federation elections, even as former internationals point to the country’s recent setbacks in continental football as evidence of a system in need of urgent reform, reports The PUNCH. Former Dream Team star Abiodun Obafemi, a member of Nigeria’s...
•Military at a polling booth The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) today rejected the routine deployment of troops of the armed forces during elections, saying the Force should remain exceptional. The electoral body specifically said the deployment of the military should arise only where prevailing security conditions require ar...
•Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Rashidi Ladoja The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Rashidi Ladoja, yesterday, urged politicians across party lines to refrain from using religion as a tool for electoral advantage, stressing that Nigeria’s democracy must move beyond divisive tendencies. Speaking with journalists at his Bodija residence in Ibadan, Oyo S...
•Omoyele Sowore and Nigerian Senate Human rights activist and politician, Omoyele Sowore, has claimed that 90 per cent of federal lawmakers and other elected officials would not be elected if elections in Nigeria were conducted transparently. Sowore made the remark while reacting to the controversy trailing the amendments to the Electoral Act,...
•A polling assistant from Uganda’s Electoral Commission counts votes, yesterday Polls closed in Uganda yesterday after a chaotic day of voting that took place under an internet blackout and with long delays caused by technical breakdowns as President Yoweri Museveni seeks to extend his 40 years in power. Museveni, an 81-year-old who came to p...
•Solomon Ogbonna The court instituted president of the Lagos State chapter of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Solomon Ogbonna, has charged Igbo people in the state to forget the grievances and wrongs of the past and speak with one voice. Speaking in an interview with our correspondent, he said that dwelling on wrongs of the past will […]
•House of Representatives Executive Director of Development Specs Academy, Prof Okey Ikechukwu, has criticised the recent move by federal lawmakers to increase campaign spending limits for political candidates. Recall that the House of Representatives yesterday increased campaign spending limits for candidates contesting elective offices, rais...
•Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday he was ready to hold new elections in Ukraine provided security could be assured, and that he expected to send Washington within a day revised proposals on ending the nearly four-year war with Russia. US President Donald Trump is pressuring Kyiv to accept a dea...
Opposition coalition, African Democratic Congress (ADC), has said that the decision of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to begin talks about zoning their 2027 presidential tickets two years before the election showed they don’t care about addressing the plights of Nigerians. “The general election is st...
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