•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...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has proposed a single day for the conduct of the five elections in 2027. If the proposal is upheld, the reviewed Electoral Act would empower the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to simultaneously conduct the presidential, senatorial, House of Representatives, governorship a...
•New APC chairman, Nentawe Yilwatda and ADC logo The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has issued a caution to the newly appointed National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Professor Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, urging him not to exploit his past role as a Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) to manipulate the country’s electoral ...
•Vote casting Exactly one year after a landmark Supreme Court ruling on local government autonomy in Nigeria, 7,060,195 registered voters in Lagos State, Nigeria’s economic nerve centre and revenue powerhouse, head to the polls today, Saturday, July 12, 2025, to elect their preferred representatives into chairmanship, vice-chairmanship and cou...

