NewsReports

The bill aims to strengthen the legal framework governing elections in Nigeria. A bill seeking to repeal the Electoral Act 2022 and enact a new Electoral Bill 2025 has passed second reading at the Senate. The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, announced the passage during Wednesday’s plenary after a majority of senators supported it through a voice vote. Following its passage, the …

A tale of pain, oppression, suppression, injustice, power intoxication and undemocratic decisions Our attention has been drawn to a television media chat by the President of PENGASSANand the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Comrade Festus Osifo, on October 15, 2025, as broadcast on Channels TV’s “TUC Half Hour” program. During the program, Comrade Osifo attempted to whitewash and downplay the deliberate …

In a statement posted on its X (formerly Twitter) account on Wednesday, Amnesty International condemned the remand of Ejimakor and Prince Emmanuel Kanu, the younger brother of the IPOB leader, in Kuje Correctional Centre after their arrest during a peaceful assembly on Monday. Global human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has warned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu against what it described as …

Nnamdi Kanu informed the court of his plan to call 23 witnesses divided into two categories. Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has listed former Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, as one of his defence witnesses in his terrorism trial before the Federal High Court in Abuja. The Biafra agitator listed Mr Malami among …

—- Visits Afenifere leader, Fasoranti over Tinubu’s re-election — Fasoranti seeks unity, bridge building to stabilize Nigeria Northern leaders under the aegis of the Northern Bridge Builders Forum, have said that only a northerner without conscience would not support the re-election of President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 election. The leader of the group, who was a former Minister, Senator …

The United Nations’ top court issued a legal opinion Wednesday stating that Israel, as an occupying power, is obligated to work with UN agencies to facilitate humanitarian aid in Gaza, a rebuke of the blockade it imposed on the Palestinian enclave earlier this year. The International Court of Justice also said in its advisory opinion that the UN Relief and Works Agency for …

…Uncovers 400 Ghost Files In Local Government System By Idahosa Musa  Edo State Government has suspended all Heads of Local Government Administration (HoLGAs) across the 18 councils in the state, following a discovery of widespread irregularities and hundreds of unverified personnel records. Chairman of the Edo State Local Government Service Commission, Hon. Kabiru Adjoto, who announced the measure on Wednesday …

Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first French ex-president to go to jail, as he starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Not since World War Two Nazi collaborationist leader Philippe Pétain was jailed for treason in 1945 has any French ex-leader gone behind bars. Sarkozy, who was president …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State has criticised opposition parties across Nigeria, describing them as directionless and lacking in vision. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the party’s spokesman, Seye Oladejo, said the APC had observed with concern the deteriorating state of opposition politics in the country as the 2027 general elections draw near. He noted that the …

The Senator representing Edo North Senatorial District, Adams Oshiomhole, has donated a nine-classroom block to Oza Comprehensive High School, Ojah, in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State. According to NAN, Oshiomhole inaugurated the multi-million-naira project on Tuesday. Speaking during the event, the former Edo governor said the gesture fulfilled a campaign promise he made to the people of Ojah …