By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor NIGERIA’S pro-democracy movement has lost one of its notable voices, Chief Ralph Obioha, a businessman, politician, elder statesman and founding member of the National Democratic Coalition, NADECO, who died on October 3, 2026, aged 80. His death, announced by his son, Chima Obioha, on behalf of the family in Enugu, […]

Drivers arrested for plying restricted route By Ogochukwu Agha LAGOS — Four persons sustained critical injuries on Tuesday in a multiple road crash involving two trucks, a commercial bus and nine motorcycles at First Gate, inward Mile 2, on the Mile 2-Seme Expressway, Lagos. The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) said no life was […]

By Luminous Jannamike ABUJA — National Deputy Coordinator (South) of the One Nigeria Movement, Hon. Engr. Francis Nnoli, has urged the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, to rein in the party’s state chairmen over statements he said could threaten Nigerians’ constitutional rights to freedom of movement and political participation. […]

By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA — The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has established a dedicated Artificial Intelligence (AI) Division and begun integrating AI tools into its election results verification and cybersecurity systems ahead of the 2027 general election. INEC Chairman, Prof. Joash O. Amupitan, disclosed this Tuesday in Abuja at a World Press Conference and […]

Moscow refused him a visa for a long time, while the 2008 financial crisis and then the Covid-19 pandemic proved to be other hold-ups.