Category: Politics

Former Minister of Youth and Sports Development Solomon Dalung joined protesters at the National Assembly on Wednesday, condemning President Bola Tinubu and Senate President Godswill Akpabio for their handling of electoral reform legislation. Addressing demonstrators demanding mandatory electronic transmission of election results, Dalung declared, “Tinubu and Akpabio are playing with fire. They’re terrible leaders.” He…

The Nigerian Senate has passed the third reading of the Electoral Act 2022 (Repeal and Re-enactment) Amendment Bill 2026, approving a modified Clause 60 that permits—but does not mandate—presiding officers to electronically transmit polling unit results to INEC’s IReV portal, while designating the manual Form EC8A as the primary and legally binding source for result…

Former Rivers State Governor and ex-Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi joined hundreds of protesters at the National Assembly complex on Tuesday, demanding the reinstatement of mandatory real-time electronic transmission of election results in the recently passed Electoral Act Amendment Bill. Amaechi, accompanied by his first son—a medical doctor—addressed demonstrators gathered outside the Senate chambers, declaring…

Social media platforms have been flooded with claims that “₦210 trillion was diverted by NNPC” and subsequently “written off” by the Tinubu administration, a narrative that conflates separate issues and misrepresents critical financial facts currently under Senate scrutiny. What the ₦210 Trillion Figure Actually Represents The ₦210 trillion figure emerged not from an external auditor’s…

Emotions ran high Tuesday morning outside the barricaded gates of Onitsha Main Market as hundreds of traders gathered to protest Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s unprecedented one-week shutdown order, with some demonstrators breaking into chants that drew sharp criticism from religious and civic leaders. The protest erupted hours after security forces sealed all major entrances to Africa’s…