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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced plans to conduct a mock accreditation and results upload exercise ahead of the February 21, 2026, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Council elections. In a statement signed by INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner for the FCT, the electoral umpire said the mock exercise will take place on Saturday, […]

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has condemned the killing of about 170 people in Kwara State, saying the attack demonstrates a serious failure of security under President Bola Tinubu’s administration. In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the party said the massacre in Kaiama Local Government Area shows that government

The United Nations, the US, and Türkiye have condemned the killings in Kwara. In a separate statement, they said the attack, which left about 75 people dead and several others wounded, was “heinous”. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in an X post, said, “I strongly condemn the terrorist attack of 3 February in Kwara State, Nigeria.

Aloy Ejimakor, lawyer to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has said that being Igbo is not a choice but a birthright. Ejimakor said this in a statement posted on his verified X handle on Friday. He charged every Igbo person to uphold the tenet of the Igbo heritage

The Executive Director of the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC), Clement Nwankwo, has urged Nigerian lawmakers to respect citizens’ views in the ongoing review of the Electoral Act, warning that legislators must not “act as overlords”. Nwankwo, in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, on Thursday, said a broad consensus had already been

The Chief Executive Officer of Dangote Refinery, David Bird, said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government’s Naira-for-Crude deal with the plant is a “success,” but noted that the refinery still imports 65 percent of its crude. He made this known at a news conference on Wednesday, stating that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC, currently supplies

  For decades, football fans in Nigeria have lived in the distant memories of the mid-to-late 90s and the early 2000s. That era had Kanu Nwankwo as an “Invincible” with Arsenal; Sunday Oliseh anchoring the midfield for teams like Juventus and Borussia Dortmund; and Austin Okocha dancing with the ball at the Reebok Stadium. It