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Benue State governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, has said the petition written against him to Pope Leo XIV, by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) gubernatorial candidate in the 2023 general election Joseph Waya was built on gossip and personal bitterness. Alia said this while dismissing the petition in which Waya alleged levelled various allegation of misconduct against him and …

A stakeholder in the health sector, Adedayo Adelanwa, has lamented the surge of eye challenges, saying about 23 million people suffer from eye problems in Nigeria. Adelanwa made the outcry on Sunday, during a two-day free medical outreach and glaucoma surgery held for residents of Abeokuta. He insisted that if 25 percent of the Nigerian population suffers one eye defects …

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has described as ‘frightening’ the recent killings in Borno, Edo, Sokoto and Katsina states. Obi expressed the feeling in a tweet on his official X handle on Sunday. He lamented that the incidents were “stark evidence that Nigeria is in the grip of a full-blown security …

A bloody weekend across Nigeria left at least 102 people dead, including security personnel and suspected bandits, in a series of violent incidents reported in Borno, Sokoto, Edo and Katsina states. In Katsina State, seven people were killed when armed bandits raided Magajin Wando village between 11 p.m. and midnight on Friday. According to the Katsina State Ministry of Internal …

Inside INEC’s Secret Plot To Manipulate 2027 Elections For Tinubu, APC; Abdulrazak Yusuf Tipped To Replace Yakubu – SaharaReporters The manipulation of IReV, according to the insider, is already in motion. It was reportedly deployed in recent by-elections and is set to be tested again in the upcoming governorship elections in Anambra, Osun, and Ekiti states. SaharaReporters can exclusively reveal …

The long-running debate over whether former President Goodluck Jonathan can legally return to the presidential race took a dramatic turn last week after a Federal High Court in Yenagoa ruled that he cannot be barred from contesting on the basis of Section 137(3) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). Justice Isa H. Dashen, who delivered judgment on May 27, 2022, …

Human rights activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has accused the government of President Bola Tinubu of plotting to silence him. Speaking when he appeared on Hard Copy, a Channels Television programme, Sowore said the current administration has adopted the same strategy used by ex-President Muhammadu Buhari. “Well, I think it is just a recycling of the same strategy …

Barring any corrective intervention from the National Council of State (NCoS), the international community, civil society organisations and potential election observers (both local and foreign), there are warning signals that the 2027 general elections may turn out to be the worst elections ever conducted in the history of Nigeria, based on verified pieces of information made available to Sunday Vanguard …

As the November 16, 2025 National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) approaches, the governors elected on the party’s platform and the loyalists of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr. Nyesom Wike are in fresh battle of wits for the positions of the National Chairman and the National Secretary of the main opposition party, THISDAY’s investigation …

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and federal government workers have demanded an urgent review of the national minimum wage, insisting that the current N70,000 is no longer sustainable. They made the demand following the bold steps taken by several states across the country to increase the minimum wage of their workers above the N70,000 benchmark, in response to the prevailing …