Politics

On Sunday, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, announced Governor Chukwuma Soludo as the winner of the November 8 governorship election in Anambra State. The Returning Officer and Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin, Prof. Edogah Omoregie, made the declaration at the commission’s headquarters in Awka on Sunday. Soludo contested on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, …

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has expressed dissatisfaction with the conduct of the Anambra 2025 gubernatorial election, describing it as a heavily monetized process that undermined the very idea of democracy itself. In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the party accused the incumbent and his party of engaging in widespread cash-for-votes, while also criticizing …

The BBC will apologise for the misleading editing of a Donald Trump speech in a Panorama documentary, the Telegraph can disclose. Samir Shah, the BBC’s chairman, will write to the culture, media and sport committee on Monday to express regret for the way the speech, made on the day of the Jan 6 2021 Capitol riot, was spliced together. The …

US President Donald Trump has finally created space for Nigeria in his busy schedule. “If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” …

President Donald Trump was heading to Florida on Friday, watching Fox News, when he saw the network run a story on how Christians were allegedly being targeted by Islamic groups in Nigeria, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The President was “immediately” angered by it, one of the sources said, and asked to get further read in on …

The United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office has issued a fresh warning against travel to parts of Nigeria, citing escalating insecurity, violent crime, terrorism, and kidnappings across multiple regions. In its latest Foreign Travel Advice published on GOV.UK and sighted by our correspondent on Sunday, the FCDO stated, “Insecurity is increasing across Nigeria. Kidnapping, violent crime, and intercommunal violence …

International observers and civil society organisations have commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the transparent, efficient, and peaceful conduct of the ongoing Anambra State Governorship Election, noting that the exercise has so far been remarkably orderly and credible. Reports from accredited observer groups, monitored at the INEC Situation Room by the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, …

A member of the United States Congress, Riley Moore, has again warned the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government not to underestimate President Donald Trump’s determination to intervene in the ongoing killings of Christians across Nigeria. Speaking during an interview posted on Saturday, Moore said Trump was “very serious” about ending what he described as the “slaughter of Christians” in Nigeria, …

Some International and local observers have expressed concern over reports of vote buying and low voter turnout during Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra. Reports from Yiaga Africa, European Union Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria (EU-SDGN) II and other partner organisations indicated that voter turnout was low in most polling units across the 21 local government areas of the state. …

U.S. President Donald Trump has dropped another explosive statement, revealing that Nigeria’s current president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, once petitioned the White House in 2014, accusing the then Nigerian government of committing genocide against Christians. Trump said, “In 2014, Tinubu and his APC people submitted a petition to the White House, saying Christians were being killed in Nigeria — a Christian …