The All Progressives Congress (APC) has secured a total victory in the Kogi State local government elections, winning all 21 chairmanship positions and all 239 councillorship seats across the state. The results were announced by the Chairman of the Kogi State Independent Electoral Commission (KOSIEC), Mamman Nda-Eri, who described the exercise as “peaceful, free, and fair”. According to Channels TV, Nda-Eri confirmed that the ruling party “performed excellently” and cleared every contested position, leaving nothing for the other 18 political parties that participated in the election. The elections were held on Saturday across the state’s 21 Local Government Areas, 239…
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Eight members of the Zamfara State House of Assembly who resigned from the All Progressives Congress (APC) a few weeks ago have agreed to return to the ruling party following a meeting with President Bola Tinubu. The lawmakers met the President on Sunday night and resolved to work for the APC’s success in the 2027 general election. The delegation was led to the President by the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, who was accompanied by Aminu Sani Jaji, a member of the House of Representatives. The meeting came amid reports that the legislators were considering defecting to the…
The Presidency has strongly refuted claims made by Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde that the Federal Government is withholding ₦250 billion in Nigeria LNG (NLNG) dividends from each state of the federation. In a press statement issued on Saturday by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the Presidency described the governor’s allegation as “false and should be disregarded.” Governor Makinde made the claim on Friday during the 2027 Budget Stakeholders’ Consultative Engagement held at the International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan. He alleged that the funds, which were earmarked for state projects, would not…
Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, vice-presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), has rejected claims that the party’s Obi-Kwankwaso (OK) ticket will withdraw from the 2027 presidential race in favour of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar. In a strongly worded statement, Kwankwaso accused the ADC Presidential Campaign Council of launching unnecessary attacks on him, NDC presidential candidate Peter Obi, and the party. He said the ADC campaign was creating mischief by suggesting that the OK ticket was working for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) or might step down at the last minute for the ADC…
Former Rivers State Governor and African Democratic Congress (ADC) vice-presidential candidate Rotimi Amaechi has ignited fresh controversy after a video surfaced online in which he declared: “The electorates and the Northern political elite are the problem of this Country.” The remark, circulating with the headline “The North is the problem of Nigeria,” comes just weeks after Amaechi told an ADC town hall in Benin City that only “thieves and mad people” would vote for President Bola Tinubu in 2027, adding: “If Edo people vote for Tinubu, that means Edo people are mad”. The latest outburst has renewed scrutiny of Amaechi’s…
Yorubas say ẹnu òrófó níí pa òrófó; it is the mouth of the òrófó bird that kills the òrófó. The proverb is not merely a warning against noise; but a surgical observation about self-destruction. The òrófó is a bird whose own uncontrollable yapping, ceaseless vituperations and its refusal to hold its tongue, become the instrument of its ruin. It needs no enemy; it needs no trapper. Its lineage is scattered not by the hunter’s net but the reckless vibrations of its own beak. The Ifa corpus is replete with such cautionary tales; the one who speaks without gauge summons the…
Atiku Abubakar has been accused of intellectual theft after he allegedly copied the original “Ask Atiku” platform and its exact wording for his newly unveiled “Ask AA” citizen-engagement portal. Podium Reporters gathered that the ADC presidential candidate launched Ask AA on 15 October 2026 as an information and citizen-engagement platform giving Nigerians direct access to ask him questions about his political agenda, public service record and plans for the country. But the creator of the original platform says the launch statement mirrors, almost verbatim, the 2020 “Ask Atiku” project created and launched from scratch. “In 2020, I created and launched…
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…
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…