Author: Vincent Osuwo

Former Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi, on Thursday, pledged to transform Nigeria within four years if elected in the 2027 general election. Amaechi promised to base the 2027 election on competence, experience, and performance, rather than ethnic or regional sentiments, after submitting his nomination forms at the ADC headquarters in Abuja. He also criticized President Bola Tinubu’s administration for the country’s economic hardship. “What Nigerians should do is assess all of us who are running for office based on our records,” he said. “Nearly everybody who is running for the office of the president has served Nigeria in one way…

The minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has said that Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde’s presidential ambition is “dead on arrival.” Wike made the statement on Thursday while speaking with journalists during an inspection of road construction in Abuja, just hours after the Oyo governor proclaimed his presidential ambition in Ibadan. During his speech at the combined mega-rally of the PDP and APM, Makinde declared that the country’s position has “continued to deteriorate, putting the majority of Nigerians on survival mode daily.” The governor further stated that government personnel in charge of citizens’ welfare had abdicated their responsibilities.…

Olusegun Mimiko, the former governor of Ondo State, has officially joined the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. It was previously reported that Mimiko, who led the Sunshine State from 2009 to 2016, resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party last month. The former governor, who joined the ruling party on Thursday at the APC secretariat in the state’s Ward 7, Ondo West Local Government Area, stated that he did so to help President Bola Tinubu move the country ahead. He said, “There are a lot of good things being done by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led government, and though much more…

The presidency has berated former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi over his pledge to serve only one term if elected president, saying his political history shows inconsistency. Obi stated in a viral clip from an interview scheduled to air on News Central TV on Thursday that he would not remain in office beyond four years “even with a gun to my head.” In reaction on Thursday in a post on X, the special adviser to the president on information and strategy, Bayo Onanuga, condemned the promise, insisting that Obi’s past political decisions show a pattern of broken loyalty. “If…

The United Nations (UN) has condemned rising civilian casualties linked to military airstrikes in Nigeria and called for urgent independent investigations into the incidents. Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has criticized the mounting civilian casualties caused by military airstrikes in Nigeria and called for immediate independent investigations into the occurrences. In a statement made in Geneva on Wednesday, Türk voiced anger at reports that Nigerian military airstrikes struck a market in Zamfara State on May 10, killing at least 100 civilians and injuring many more. The UN human rights head expressed alarm about separate claims…

The Defense Headquarters (DHQ) has denied reports alleging civilian casualties following an air-land operation conducted by troops of the Joint Task Force (North West), Operation FANSAN YAMMA, in Zamfara State. The operation on May 10, 2026, reportedly targeted a gathering of terrorist leaders at Tumfa Village in Shinkafi Local Government Area. In a statement issued by the director of defense media operations, Major General Michael Onoja, on X on Thursday, the military said the strike was based on credible intelligence gathered from multiple sources. “The operation targeted a confirmed high-level gathering of terrorist ring leaders… a location verified by credible,…

Real Madrid formally began their electoral process on Thursday, when President Florentino Perez declared his decision to call elections in which he will run. Candidates must submit their candidacies during a 10-day period, until May 23, according to Madrid. Among the prerequisites for becoming a candidate are 20 years of club membership and a guarantee of 187 million euros ($219 million), equivalent to 15% of the club’s yearly budget, backed by personal assets. Perez, who was re-elected unopposed for a four-year term in January 2025, revealed his intention to run again during a news conference on Tuesday. Spanish media reports…

A US court has sentenced a Nigerian-born former nonprofit chief executive, Dr. Nkechy Ezeh, to 70 months in prison for orchestrating a $1.4 million fraud scheme involving taxpayer and donor funds meant for vulnerable preschool children. The US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan announced the sentence in a press release on Wednesday. Chief US District Judge Hala Y. Jarbou handed the sentencing, which also included a concurrent 60-month sentence for tax evasion and an order for Ezeh to pay $1.4 million in restitution and $390,174 to the IRS. Ezeh, 61, of Kent County, Michigan, was the founder…

Former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi has reaffirmed he would serve only one term of four years if elected president, insisting he would serve only one term in office “even with a gun to my head.” Obi made the declaration in a clip from an interview scheduled to air on News Central TV on Thursday. “I want to be a one-term president because of stability. I would not stay a day, with a gun to my head, longer than four years, he said in the circulating video. The former ADC chieftain also criticized the current administration’s economic policies, including…

A US congressman, Barry Moore, has called for immigrants entering the country as religious workers to formally disavow Sharia law and pledge allegiance to the US Constitution. Moore stated this in a post published on X on Wednesday while announcing the introduction of proposed legislation titled the “CRUSADE Act.” Sharia law, which is based on Islamic religious precepts, is practiced in various ways in many Muslim-majority countries and communities around the world. According to the senator, the bill was intended to ban the promotion of religious ideas that, in his opinion, contradict American constitutional norms. “Sharia law justifies the persecution…