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The Senate on Wednesday, shifted the consideration of the report on Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill to Thursday, January 29 but one of the major recommendations is electronic transmission of results from polling units to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC Result Viewing Portal, IREV after counting of votes. Recommendation was also made for more stringent measures against buying and selling …

Trillions Spent, Hunger Remains: Reps Probe Nigeria’s Missing Agricultural GainsSpeaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, has raised alarm over Nigeria’s worsening food insecurity despite trillions of naira poured into agricultural interventions over the last decade. Abbas made the remarks through Ibrahim Isiaka, Deputy Chief Whip of the House, on Tuesday in Abuja during an investigative hearing reviewing agricultural …

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has transmitted two amendment bills to the House of Representatives seeking to increase the number of Federal High Court judges from 70 to 90 and Appeal Court judges from 70 to 110, among others. The bills seeking were read by Speaker Abbas Tajudeen during resumption of plenary on Wednesday. In two letters to the President of …

The Senate has deferred consideration of the report on the Electoral Act, 2022 (Repeal and Enactment) Bill, 2026, opting to first subject the proposed amendments to further internal scrutiny through an executive session on Thursday. Senate President Godswill Akpabio announced the decision during Wednesday’s plenary after the Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele (APC, Ekiti Central), requested that senators be allowed to …

Donald Trump warned Tuesday of “very bad things” if Republicans lose the US midterm elections, as the US president kicked off a travel blitz under the shadow of unrest in Minneapolis and voter worries about the economy. At a rally in Iowa — one of the first stops for primary campaigns in US presidential elections — Trump said his party …

Normal activities resumed on Wednesday across the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) and its affiliated Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) following the return of workers to duty in compliance with a court order suspending their strike action. The resumption followed a ruling on Tuesday by the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, presided over by Justice E. D. Subilim, which directed …

An umbrella organisation for Fulani cattle herders and pastoralists in Nigeria, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), has condemned the presidential pardon granted to Yoruba self-determination activist Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho. The organisation described the pardon as a grave miscarriage of justice and a painful reminder of the Nigerian state’s failure to protect Fulani …

Actress Angela Okorie was arrested at her Lagos residence by operatives of the Nigeria Police Force Cybercrime Centre. She was reportedly held overnight at Yaba Panti after there was no immediate flight available to Abuja at the time of her arrest. Angela Okorie was flown to Abuja early this morning, where she is expected to face court proceedings connected to …

Community leaders and displaced residents on Wednesday converged on the Ikeja Under-Bridge area of Lagos to protest the ongoing demolitions and alleged forced evictions in waterfront and low-income communities, including Makoko, Owode Onirin and Oworonshoki. The protesters accused the Lagos State Government of carrying out demolitions without adequate notice, compensation or resettlement plans for affected residents. The demonstrators occupied strategic …

With regard to the claims made by Mr Omoyele Sowore and his counsel, Mr Abubakar Marshal, in court on Tuesday, January 27, 2026, I do freely admit that I did make uncomplimentary remarks about the then Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, while believing those comments to be true at the time I uttered them. Subsequent to making those …