The Social Democratic Party, SDP, Presidential Candidate for the 2027 general elections, Adewole Adebayo, has fired back at former Labour Party Vice Presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, over his recent comment. Datti had stated that none of the leading candidates for the 2027 presidential election can fix Nigeria, including his former boss, Peter Obi. Speaking in an interview on Arise Television on Sunday, Adebayo said Datti’s conclusion could only be based on his personal experiences with politicians he had worked with. He advised Datti not to extend such a conclusion to candidates with whom he had no direct dealings.
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Ahead of the 2027 general elections, Katsina State Governor, Dikko Umaru Radda on Sunday, 6 September, 2026 declared that the state will remain firmly behind President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress(APC). Radda stated this on Sunday, 6 September, 2026, in Katsina, where he assured Tinubu of the state’s continued support for his re-election. “Katsina State is an APC state. Every elected person in Katsina State is a member of the All Progressives Congress, and I want to assure you that Katsina State has a special attachment to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” he said. “Katsina State will continue…
The Presidential Candidate of the African Action Congress, (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has alleged that former Labour Party, LP, presidential running mate Datti Baba-Ahmed knew Peter Obi was “a packaged fraud” when he served as his running mate in the 2023 presidential election. Sowore made the allegation through his official X handle while reacting to Datti’s claim that Obi, Atiku Abubakar and other politicians cannot improve Nigeria. “He knew Peter Obi, whom he deputized, was a packaged fraud. That needs no repeating, he just revealed what he knew up close,” Sowore wrote, just as he also recalled the 2023 Peace Accord…
US singer Ciara on Sunday, 6 September, 2026 announced that she is expecting her fifth child, expanding her family with husband Russell Wilson. The forthcoming baby will be Ciara’s fifth child and her fourth with Wilson. The 40-year-old Grammy-winning singer and Wilson announced the pregnancy in a joint Instagram post on their accounts, #Ciara and #DangeRussWilson, on Sunday, 6 September, 2026 sharing photos and videos showing her baby bump. “One more person to Love,” the couple captioned the post. In the announcement, Ciara and Wilson posed outside alongside four shirts hanging on a clothesline, with a blank baby onesie representing…
Nollywood actress and influencer Nimmy Ferrari has reportedly died following an alleged fibroid operation, days before she was expected to officially open her newly completed house in Sagamu, Ogun State. The sad news was shared by some of her colleagues on social media, with one colleague revealing on Snapchat that Nimmy was preparing to hold a housewarming ceremony after completing the building. She was reported to have undergone a surgery to remove fibroid but did not survive the operation. Nimmy’s death has sparked an outpouring of grief and tributes among colleagues; noting she paid tribute to her senior colleague, veteran…
By Oluwole Solanke, PhD, FCIB There are footballers who play football. There are footballers who win trophies. There are footballers who break records. And then, once in a generation, there comes a footballer who changes the way the world sees the game. Lionel Messi is that footballer. For millions of football lovers across the world, Messi has never been merely a player. He has been an artist. A magician. A genius. A dreamer. A competitor. A leader. And above all, a living reminder that greatness can emerge from the most unlikely beginnings. For me, Lionel Messi is more than one…
By Daniel Oluwatobiloba Popoola The Lagos State Taskforce has dismissed as false and misleading a report by Objectv, which alleged that officials of the agency and its leadership gate-crashed into a compound and Okada garage during an enforcement operation at Agric Farm Estate, Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State. The agency’s Director of Public Affairs, Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, disclosed this in a statement, explaining that the operation followed a formal petition from the Olugbemi, Habeeb, Aiyedoto and Otubu Community Development Associations (CDAs), who had drawn the attention of the Taskforce Chairman, CSP Adetayo Akerele, to the activities of recalcitrant commercial…
By Daniel Oluwatobiloba Popoola A Lagos-based political research outfit, the Political Intelligence Group (PIG), has projected that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will win the 2027 presidential election with 20 states, while the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and the Labour Party-aligned bloc, referred to in the projection as Nigeria Democraric Congress (NDC), are expected to secure nine and eight states respectively. The projection was unveiled during a media engagement on Nigeria’s electoral law and analysis of the 2027 general elections, hosted by the Publisher of The Politico.ng, Mr Lai Omotola, at EBOOTCAMP, 46 Adeoye Adeyemi Street, Peace Estate, Wasimi, Maryland,…
Egyptian TV presenter Sarah Khalifa was among 12 people sentenced to death for their alleged role in a drug trafficking network on Saturday, 5 September, 2026, according to a state-owned Egyptian outlet. The 12 defendants, including Khalifa, were sentenced to death by hanging and fined 500,000 Egyptian pounds ($9,800) by Cairo’s Criminal Court, the al-Ahram newspaper reported. They were accused of forming an organized criminal gang “specializing in importing substances used in the manufacture of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking,” as well as possessing firearms without a license, al-Ahram said. Nine others were sentenced to life imprisonment and seven…
By LANRE ADEWOLE Asiwaju Bola Tinubu should not have been president in 2023. He really was almost not. A witness told me the story of the moment a faction of the ruling APC National Working Committee, led by a former Nasarawa Governor, Adamu Abdullahi, in cahoots with the presidency of now-late General Muhammadu Buhari, announced then Senate President, Ahmad Lawan as the “consensus” candidate as requested by the then President. Today’s President, then a leading aspirant, reportedly “slumped” on the laps of a former House of Representatives’ Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, who was with him in Abuja, when the “devastating” news…