By: Oluwaseun M. Lawal A major shift may be coming to Nigeria’s security architecture. On Wednesday, the Senate took a significant step toward changing how policing works across the country. After a lengthy debate and clause-by-clause consideration, lawmakers voted in favour of a constitutional amendment bill that seeks to establish state police services alongside the…
By: Abudu Olalekan The Presidency hit back at Peter Obi for asking Tinubu to resign, calling it childish and an unworthy distraction. Here’s what really went down. Peter Obi asked President Bola Tinubu to step down. And the Presidency? They weren’t having any of it. On Monday, they brushed off the call from the Nigerian…
By: Abudu Olalekan Well, it’s official. Governor Biodun Oyebanji is going back for a second term. Before dawn broke on Sunday, INEC spoke up following a lengthy count at its base along Iyin Road in Ado-Ekiti. Truth is, hardly anyone who saw it thought otherwise. Up stepped Prof. Adenike Oladiji, the Vice Chancellor at the…
By: Abudu Olalekan Two days. That’s all the time left before Ekiti State goes to the polls in what many are calling one of the most closely watched off-cycle elections in recent memory. And from the looks of things, nobody is taking any chances. On Wednesday, the streets of Ado Ekiti were buzzing with a…
By: Abudu Olalekan The Court of Appeal reversed the deregistration of the ADC and four other parties on Monday. Senator David Mark, the ADC National Chairman, didn’t hold back. He said the judiciary is on trial right now. And he warned the Federal Government—stop the political manipulation. Stakeholders are furious. They’re calling for sanctions against…
By: Abudu Olalekan It started with a court order. Then all hell broke loose. Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court in Abuja dropped a bombshell Monday. Five opposition parties—ADC, Accord Party, Action Peoples Party, Action Alliance, and Zenith Labour Party—is effectively gone. Deregistered. Wiped off INEC’s books, if the ruling stands. The opposition…
