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Two days after electioneering for the 2027 Presidential and National Assembly polls officially kicked off on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, some political parties embarked on candidate substitution at the weekend.

Nigeria may be experiencing a widening disconnect between booming equity market capitalisation and productive value creation. It is conventional wisdom that the equity market is the barometer of the economy. And this is true of the advanced economies: London, New York, Tokyo, Korea.

President Bola Tinubu has renewed the tenure of the Director-General of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Abdulhamid Salihu Dembos, and the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Ali Mohammed Ali, for another three years.

The Special Adviser on Security Matters to Sokoto State Governor Ahmed Aliyu, Col. Ahmed Usman (retd.), has appealed to political leaders, traditional institutions, religious leaders and residents to close ranks in the fight against banditry, insisting that insecurity should not be reduced to partisan politics.

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof. Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, has called on Nigerians to reject division, intolerance and violence as the country approaches another electoral season. Yilwatda made the call in a message commemorating Eid-ul-Mawlid, the annual celebration of the birth of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, in his goodwill message to Muslims across Nigeria.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered a disturbing mix of traditional and increasingly sophisticated methods being employed by drug traffickers across Nigeria, arresting a 101-year-old great-grandmother allegedly involved in retail cannabis dealing and intercepting cocaine concealed inside edible cassava flour popularly known as fufu.

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) wants INEC to state whether it has exercised its statutory power to limit political contributions under the Electoral Act, 2026, and immediately publish any limits prescribed for individuals, political parties and...

The National Coordinator and Executive Director of the National Brands Development and Made in Nigeria Special Project Office, George Buchi Nwabueze, has launched a strong defence of the controversial outfit, dismissing the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission’s (ICPC) description of it as a “fake agency”.

When the federal government announced last week that removal of petrol subsidy had generated an estimated ₦15.8 trillion in savings between June 2023 and December 2025, the figure was presented as further evidence that Nigeria's painful economic reforms were working. It is, unquestionably, a significantly large number.

According to the delegation, co-led by IRI President Daniel Twining and Ambassador Jendayi Frazer, a board member of the National Endowment for Democracy, NED, and former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Nigeria retains important foundations for democratic competition, including an established electoral institution and a multi-party system but political consolidation by the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, opposition fragmentation, election-related violence, monetised political competition and declining public trust are weakening the foundations built for democratic competition, established electoral institutions, an active civil society and a multi-party system.