•A cross-section of panels at Citizens’ Townhall The national debate over the Electoral Act 2026, recently signed into law, continued yesterday, with Nigerians expressing divergent views over the new legislation that will serve as a legal guide for the conduct of the 2027 general elections. The issues identified in the new law took centre stag...
•Adewole Adebayo The Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Prince Adewole Adebayo, has said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s emergence is not a blessing but a painful lesson from God to Nigerians. Speaking at a Ramadan Iftar organised by the AAFAQ Foundation in Kano on Saturday, Adebayo said, “Four years ago,...
•Telecommunication mast Africans are increasingly online, but awareness and practice of digital safety remain low, Afrobarometer telephone survey across seven African countries shows. The survey distributed by APO Group on behalf of Afrobarometer reveals that in the average across Angola, Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tanz...
•NNPP chieftain, Buba Galadima A chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima, has warned that Nigerians could react strongly at the ballot box if current economic and security challenges continue, drawing parallels with the 2015 electoral defeat of former President Goodluck Jonathan. Galadima spoke last night while appeari...
•Ukraine President Zelensky, EU Ambassador Gautier Mignot and Russian President Putin  On the fourth anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war, the EU ambassador to Nigeria, Gautier Mignot, voiced concern over what he described as a disturbing development — Russia’s recruitment of Nigerians and other Africans to fight in the war. Mignot, speaking ...
•Deportation The United States Department of Homeland Security, DHS, has intensified its immigration enforcement operations, announcing that 19 more people have been added to the list of Nigerians awaiting deportation from the US. The latest update brings the total number of Nigerian nationals processed for removal to 113 in just the last 21 d...
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), in collaboration with the British High Commission in Abuja, has alerted Nigerians about the rising threat of global job recruitment schemes funneling victims into cyber‑enabled scam operations across Southeast Asia. At a landmark survivor‑centred event held on Monday i...
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...
•Itodo and the Senate The Executive Director of Yiaga Africa, Samson Itodo, has faulted the assent to the amended electoral bill, saying that it contains provisions that are at variance with the aspirations of Nigerians. “I think that Nigerians need to know that, yes, whilst there might be progressive provisions in the 2026 Act, the […]...
•Tunde Elebute The Deputy Director, Crime Victims Foundation of Nigeria (CRIFON), Lagos State chapter, Dr Tunde Elebute, is an economist, human rights promoter, public affairs commentator and educationist. In this interview, he speaks on crucial current issues in the polity, reports Sunday Independent. Excerpts: The US Military has sent 200 fo...
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