Segun Dada, Social media aide to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has hit back at former Vice President Atiku Abubakar over his call of the President a “dull student,” calling it another case of self-aggrandisement by someone lacking self-awareness. In a statement, Dada said no one copies from a “serial loser,” especially not a President who has won every election he has contested on his first attempt. He was responding to Atiku’s claim that he had suggested “production subsidies” to the administration and that the idea had now been copied, albeit in a different or wrong way. Dada said any suggestions…
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Joint security forces have secured the release of 20 kidnapped prospective National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members and one civilian in Imo State. The victims are currently receiving medical attention at a Department of State Services (DSS) facility in Owerri. The 20 graduates were abducted on Thursday, October 1, while travelling from Ibadan to their NYSC orientation camps. Gunmen attacked two buses conveying them along the Owerri-Onitsha Road in Umunoha, Imo State. The abductors initially demanded ₦50 million for each victim, totalling ₦1 billion, before reportedly reducing the ransom to ₦5 million per person. The rescue operation was conducted by…
The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Accord Party and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise Dr Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim as the party’s presidential candidate for the 2027 general election. Delivering judgment on Monday, Justice Mohammed Garba Umar directed the Accord Party to submit Olawepo-Hashim’s name to INEC in line with Section 86 of the Electoral Act 2026, and ordered the electoral body to accept and upload it to its nomination portal. The court held that Section 86 was “violently violated” by the party’s refusal to forward the plaintiff’s name after he emerged victorious in the May…
Let me tell you something about the kind of son Rotimi Amaechi is, and I want you to sit with it for a moment. He went on Channels Television’s Politics Today’ last Friday and told the whole country that Tinubu’s policies killed his mother. His mother, a woman who died at 89 in July. He said before Tinubu came, she was healthy, and after 2023, he couldn’t afford her drugs anymore. “Tinubu’s policies killed my mother,” he declared, as if the President personally walked into a pharmacy and slapped the medicine out of his hand. Now, I need you to…
The youth wing of the Labour Party (LP) has initiated discussions on a proposed political alignment with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and affiliated support groups to back President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election in 2027. The proposal was reached during a virtual meeting held on October 2, 2026, presided over by the Labour Party National Youth Leader, Prince Kennedy Ahanotu. The meeting convened National Youth Leadership members, National Zonal Youth Leaders, and State Youth Leaders to deliberate on the party’s political direction amid its prolonged internal crisis and the future of youth participation in national governance. According to a…
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has launched a scathing assessment of the opposition landscape, arguing that the political rivalry between former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi is driven primarily by personal ego and mutual bitterness rather than genuine opposition to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In a post on his X handle on Thursday, Keyamo said he reached the conclusion after observing both opposition figures deliver separate “broadcasts” in the wake of President Tinubu’s Independence Day address. He identified Atiku as the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and Obi…
The vice-presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, Rotimi Amaechi, has directly linked the death of his mother to the economic policies of President Bola Tinubu, telling Channels Television that before Tinubu took office, “my mother was healthy”. The exchange occurred during an appearance on Politics Today on Friday, October 2, 2026, when host Seun Okinbaloye pressed the former Rivers State governor on a reference he had made to his late mother while discussing the impact of economic hardship on Nigerians. Okinbaloye questioned whether Amaechi was suggesting that Tinubu’s policies were responsible for his mother’s death. “Is it Tinubu’s policy…
Rotimi Amaechi has finally put words to what many suspected all along: he didn’t so much leave President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet as he quietly faded out of it. In an interview on AIT, the former Transportation Minister explained that his disenchantment began long before his formal resignation in May 2022. The turning point came when he realised the administration was drifting from the very promises that swept the All Progressives Congress into power in 2015. Amaechi said he took his concerns directly to Buhari in a private meeting, asking the president whether Nigerians who voted for the APC had not…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has declared that Nigeria has moved beyond the most difficult phase of his administration’s economic reforms, using his 66th Independence Day address to rally Nigerians behind a new national mission: production, enterprise, and the global sale of Nigerian goods. Speaking Thursday in a nationwide broadcast themed “From Reform to Prosperity,” Tinubu said the country had “passed through its own Red Sea” and that the “emergency treatment” phase of the economy was over. “The central economic task before us has changed,” he said. “For three years, our overriding purpose was to correct our nation’s course. Now, our…
Speaking with newsmen in Osogbo ahead of Nigeria’s 66th Independence Anniversary, Oyintiloye noted that the reforms introduced since May 2023 have reshaped the country’s economic direction. He explained that the administration inherited an economy burdened by foreign exchange shortages, weak crude oil production, petrol subsidy costs, low revenue, heavy debt servicing, infrastructure deficits, and widespread poverty. The removal of petrol subsidy and foreign exchange market reforms were described as major policy shifts. Oyintiloye acknowledged that while these measures improved the trade balance, unified the exchange rate, and rebuilt foreign reserves, they also triggered higher petrol prices, increased transport and food…