Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is asking President Bola Tinubu to explain his absence from the United Nations General Assembly for the third consecutive year. Tinubu has sent Vice President Kashim Shettima to represent Nigeria at the 81st UN General Assembly in New York, after also being absent in 2024…

The Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, has distanced itself from a 59-member Presidential Campaign Council announced by the Obi-Kwankwaso Movement ahead of the 2027 general elections. The party says no individual, candidate or support group has the authority to create or announce a campaign structure in its name without approval from…

President Bola Tinubu has set October 1 as the target date for nationwide measures aimed at reducing transport fares through the wider use of compressed natural gas, known as CNG, and electric-powered vehicles. The President is urging the 36 state governments to speed up their CNG and alternative-energy transport programmes,…

The Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Abdulaziz Yari, is calling on Nigerians in the North to support President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid in 2027. Yari says Tinubu supported former President Muhammadu Buhari when it was the North’s turn to lead, and that the region should now reciprocate the…

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to prevent academics who have openly declared support for political candidates from serving as Returning or Collation Officers during the 2027 general elections. The party made the call following reports that more than 600 senior lecturers…

Lagos State House of Assembly member Desmond Elliot has apologised to Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, and appealed to be welcomed back into the All Progressives Congress in Lagos. In a video circulating on social media, Elliot was seen kneeling before Gbajabiamila as he pleaded for…