Article:A review of Jigawa State’s 2025 budget performance by SaharaReporters has revealed that Governor Umar Namadi’s Government House spent a staggering ₦437 million on utility vehicles within just three months. This spending is part of a larger total of ₦672 million spent on Government House vehicles between January and September 2025. The figures indicate that approximately 65%...

President Bola Tinubu has conferred posthumous national honours of the Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) on four slain Ogoni leaders—Albert Badey, Edward Kobani, Theophilus Orage, and Samuel Orage—popularly remembered as the “Ogoni Four.” The announcement was made on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, during the presentation of the report of the Ogoni...

President Bola Tinubu has granted a full presidential pardon to the late Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other members of the Ogoni Nine, nearly three decades after their execution by the Abacha regime in 1995. The pardon, announced during Tinubu’s address to a joint session of the National Assembly on Democracy Day, was granted under the president’s constitutional powers of Prerogative of...

Executive Director of Yiaga Africa, Samson Itodo, has said that Nigeria requires a person of impeccable character and non-partisan standing to lead the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday, Itodo stressed that anyone who succeeds the current INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, must be courageous,...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that 14 associations have scaled through the initial stage of screening and will move forward in the process of becoming registered political parties. Sam Olumekun, INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, disclosed this after a commission meeting on Thursday. He revealed...