Calm prevailed Monday around the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national secretariat at Wadata Plaza, Abuja, even as political tension simmered over plans by a faction aligned with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, to reopen the facility after months of closure. Rival blocs are now waiting to see whether security agencies will permit access to the premises.

Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has described the electronic transmission of election results as non-negotiable, warning that any attempt to weaken the provision in the amended Electoral Act would undermine Nigeria’s democratic process.

Fresh indications of reconciliation have emerged in Rivers State after President Bola Tinubu intervened in the lingering political crisis during a late-night meeting in Abuja.

Members of the Philippine clergy filed an impeachment complaint Monday against Sara Duterte, the third to hit the country’s vice president in just over a week.

The scars on Victor’s forearm remind him constantly of the day a Ukrainian drone attacked him after he was forcibly conscripted, like hundreds of young Kenyans, into the Russian army.