Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who resigned his membership from the People’s Democratic Party PDP in July, has officially joined the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Atiku, while making an official declaration in Jada, Adamawa State, stated that his migration to ADC was due to the prolonged internal crisis within the PDP. Atiku resigned from the PDP after opposition politicians adopted and unveiled the ADC as their political platform ahead of the 2027 presidential election. Atiku...

The founder and pioneer national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Chekwas Okorie, has appealed to Igbo residents in Sokoto State to rally around Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), who is currently in a prison in the North West. Okorie, who described sending the IPOB leader to Sokoto as provocative, stated that the incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu and sending him to Sokoto prison is ominous. The Convener/National...

Nigeria has come under pressure to dismantle its blasphemy laws after the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice issued a writ of execution compelling the country to act. The move comes nearly eight months after the court ruled the provisions unlawful. In April 2025, the ECOWAS Court ruled in favour of the Incorporated Trustees of Expression Now Human Rights Initiative in a case against the Federal Republic of Nigeria, declaring...

The systemic failures that have plagued Nigeria’s electricity sector for the past 17 years have forced the lower chamber to investigate funds allocated to the sector. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dr. Abbas Tajudeen, disclosed this at the commencement of an investigative hearing into the nation’s power sector reforms, said the House is committed to correcting the ills. The Speaker, represented by the Chairman, House Committee on Environment, Mike Etaba, lamented that despite years...