The camp of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Monday fired a warning at opposition political actors, telling them that insisting on zoning the 2027 presidential ticket to the South would amount to entering the contest “already defeated.”

Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, representing Kogi Central Senatorial District, has officially submitted her Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, senatorial nomination forms at the party’s National Secretariat, Wadata Plaza, Abuja, ahead of the 2027 elections.

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA–Trial of the six persons accused of complicity in an alleged plot to overthrow President Bola Tinubu’s administration through a coup d’état continued before the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday.  At the resumed proceedings, the court saw a video where one of the defendants, Sheikh Abdulkadir Sani, an Islamic cleric, […]

Venezuela has “never” contemplated becoming the 51st US state, as suggested by US President Donald Trump following the capture of deposed leader Nicolas Maduro, the country’s acting president said on Monday.

“We will be pressing for thorough and expedited investigation to ensure that justice is not just done, but done really fast”

By Shina Abubakar Osogbo  Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has finally deposed the Apetu of Ipetumodu, Oba Joseph Oloyede following his conviction and eventual imprisonment over for fraud. The monarch was convicted of tax fraud by a United States District Court in the Northern District of Ohio, United States of America on August 26, 2025 […]

Governor Ademola Adeleke has deposed the Apetu of Ipetumodu, Oba Joseph Oloyede following his conviction over COVID fraud

By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta Hundreds of aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Abeokuta South Local Government Area of Ogun State on Monday staged a peaceful protest over the alleged refusal of party leaders to issue them membership cards, despite completing their registration. The protesters also accused some leaders within the party of […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA — Ahead of the 2027 elections, the Forum of Nigerian Professionals in Politics (FNPP) has alerted President Bola Tinubu to an alleged plot to destabilize the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF) at a critical stage of political consolidation. The alarm follows an aborted “coup” last week, where some governors reportedly plotted to […]

Nigerian media personality Daddy Freeze has reacted to the ongoing controversy involving former Big Brother Naija winner Ilebaye and her father, saying he cannot completely condemn the alleged assault without knowing the full details of the incident.

Napoli’s bid to reach next season’s Champions League was still in the balance on Monday after falling to late 3-2 home defeat to Bologna.

Alh. Alhassan Bawa-Niworo, the former Chairman, Niger State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), has regained freedom after spending seven months in bandits’ captivity.

Federal Capital Territory FCT minister, Nyesom Wike on Monday washed his hands of the controversy surrounding the screening of aspirants by the All Progressives Congress APC in Rivers State, insisting that as a non-member of the party, the matter was entirely outside his purview.

The Labour Party has admitted that the exit of its former presidential candidate, Peter Obi, left a major vacuum within the party ahead of the 2027 elections because the former president was a ‘colossus’.

The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) has announced a two-day clean-up and enforcement exercise along the Lagos Port Corridor from May 14 to 15, 2026.