The North-Central All Progressives Congress (APC) Forum has called on Bola Tinubu to ensure that only credible candidates emerge as national officers of the party at its forthcoming national convention. The APC national convention is scheduled to hold between March 27 and 28, 2026, during which members of the National Working Committee (NWC), including the …
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has announced fresh appointments just days after dissolving his cabinet. In a statement issued on Thursday, Onwuka Nzeshi, the governor’s chief press secretary, said Fubara appointed Dagogo Wokoma as secretary to the state government (SSG) and Sunny Ewule as chief of staff (CoS). According to the statement, both appointments take …
After months of heated legislative battles, street protests, elite lobbying and public outrage, President Bola Tinubu signed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2026 into law, setting the legal framework that will govern Nigeria’s elections heading into the pivotal 2027 general polls. The recently concluded FCT council elections on Saturday, February 21, marked the first polls …
Ahead of the Saturday, February 22, 2026 FCT area council elections, hopes were high and the energy vibrant when Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar, joined the campaign rally for one of their favourites, Dr. Paul Moses, popularly known as Dr. Mo, the chairmanship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), for the Abuja Municipal Area …
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has congratulated All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates Ukalikpe Napoleon and Loolo Bulabari Henrietta on their victories in Saturday’s by-elections in two state constituencies. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) conducted the elections on Saturday, February 22, 2026 to fill vacant seats in the Rivers State House of Assembly. Napoleon won …
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Imaan Suleiman-Ibrahim, has expressed the ministry’s readiness to partner with the National Population Commission (NPC) on community mobilisation and sensitisation of women to participate actively in NPC initiatives. The Minister disclosed this while receiving a delegation from the NPC led by its Chairman, Dr. Aminu Yusuf, …
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has dismissed claims that results were manipulated at the Kuroko Health Centre polling unit in Yangoji Ward, Kwali Area Council, during the recently concluded Federal Capital Territory (FCT) area council elections. After the polls on Saturday, reports that went viral alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) received 1,219 …
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned the arraignment of former Kaduna State governor Nasir el-Rufai to April 23. The Department of State Services (DSS) had filed a three-count charge against el-Rufai over the alleged unlawful interception of a telephone conversation, following comments he made during a television interview. The court had earlier …
The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) on Wednesday condemned the alleged attack on former presidential candidate Peter Obi, former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress John Odigie-Oyegun, and other leaders of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Edo State. IPAC’s National Publicity Secretary, Egbeola Martins, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja, describing the …
Former presidential candidate Peter Obi, former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress John Odigie-Oyegun, and other leaders of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) were on Tuesday allegedly attacked by suspected thugs in Edo State. The incident was disclosed in a statement issued in Abuja by Obi’s former campaign spokesman and National Coordinator of the …
