Prominent figures from Nigeria’s opposition parties converged in Abuja on Thursday for a high-level discussion on the recently amended Electoral Act, highlighting growing discontent with provisions they argue undermine transparent elections as the country prepares for the 2027 polls.
Galatasaray’s Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen is gearing up to spearhead his team’s charge into the UEFA Champions League round of 16, as the Turkish side defends a commanding 5-2 lead against Juventus in the second leg of their knockout play-off set for Turin on Wednesday.
President Bola Tinubu has formally called on the Nigerian Senate to initiate constitutional amendments that would establish State Police across the federation, framing the move as an urgent and unavoidable response to the deepening security crisis threatening lives and livelihoods in virtually every part of the country.
Eighty percent of the judgements handed down by the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States cannot be enforced a damning statistic that the court’s own president laid bare before Nigeria’s highest judicial officer in Abuja, underscoring a deepening compliance crisis that has long undermined the legitimacy and operational effectiveness of one of West Africa’s most important regional institutions.
A United States District Court has delivered a significant ruling in a cross-border corruption case, sentencing a former high-ranking official of Nigeria’s state-owned oil company to more than seven years in prison for accepting millions of dollars in bribes from a Chinese energy conglomerate.
Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s candidate in the 2023 presidential election, has called on the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to take immediate and compassionate steps to ease the mounting registration crisis confronting candidates seeking to sit the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, warning that young Nigerians must not be penalised for institutional shortcomings they played no part in creating.
President Bola Tinubu has approved a one-year extension of Nigeria’s ban on the export of raw shea nuts, stretching the prohibition from February 26, 2026, to February 25, 2027, as his administration intensifies efforts to force domestic value addition across one of Africa’s most commercially significant agricultural commodities
