The 2026 FIFA World Cup may have only just begun, but concerns over stadium attendance and competition regulations have already emerged as talking points during the tournament’s opening days.

After decades of debate, failed attempts, and mounting insecurity that has left Nigerians questioning the capacity of a centralised police force to police a country of over 200 million people spread across 36 states, the National Assembly has placed before the executive a landmark constitutional alteration bill — Bill No. 7 — formally titled “A Bill for an Act to Alter the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 to Provide for the Establishment of State Police and for Related Matters (Sixth Alteration) 2026”.

Witnesses at the scene alleged that Sowore collapsed after police operatives moved to disperse protesters gathered to demonstrate against insecurity, economic hardship and what they described as poor governance.

By Gift ChapiOdekina, Abuja Two civil society and youth groups on Thursday used Nigeria’s 27th Democracy Day celebration to express confidence in the nation’s security chiefs and caution against the politicisation of insecurity, urging citizens to unite behind efforts to restore peace and stability across the country. Speaking at a Democracy Day rally in Abuja, […]

Presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, ahead of the 2027 polls, Peter Obi, has called on Nigerians to let the June 12 day celebration be a critical assessment of the nation’s political landscape by repeating the 1993 credible election next year.