The Peoples Democratic Party has formally commenced its 2027 electoral preparations with the release of a comprehensive primary election timetable, setting its presidential nomination contest for May 23, 2026. The decision, reached during the party’s 106th National Executive Committee meeting held Wednesday in Abuja, signals an attempt by the Nyesom Wike-aligned leadership to consolidate control over the party’s machinery despite ongoing legal and factional challenges.

Stigma rarely announces itself. It hides in a whiteboard that strains the eyes of a student struggling to keep up, in a nickname shouted across a marketplace, in the quiet pity of a family member who means well but smothers independence. For persons with albinism in Nigeria, these accumulated indignities, visible and invisible, have long defined daily life. A new campaign is now pushing back, and it is doing so not with statistics alone, but with poetry, music, and the unfiltered testimony of those who have lived the experience.

Nigeria’s electricity supply has taken another hit as power generation from the national grid dropped sharply, worsening the country’s persistent energy crisis and leaving several communities without electricity.

The Federal Government has approved a policy allowing specialised medical colleges in Nigeria to award Doctor of Philosophy degrees, a move aimed at strengthening medical research and advanced academic training.

Net foreign exchange inflow into the Nigerian economy fell by 18.3 per cent year on year to 61.29 billion dollars in the eleven months ended November 2025.