The Southern and Middle Belt Leadership Forum (SMBLF) has insisted that mandatory electronic transmission of results remains critical to credible and transparent elections in Nigeria. In a statement on Monday, the group called for the retention of Clause 60 of the Electoral Amendment Bill, which mandates real-time electronic transmission of election results. It warned that…
On 13 February 1975, General Murtala Ramat Muhammed was killed in Lagos. Fifty years later, the date still matters because his leadership belonged to a moment when Nigeria was moving in step with the wider world. The country was not operating on a private timetable. Decisions taken in Lagos were made at the same time…
Nigeria’s democracy is again at a familiar crossroads: the point where electoral reform is loudly promised, quietly diluted, and then defended as “procedure.” The new controversy around the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2026 is not just a disagreement between the Senate and the House of Representatives. It is a test of whether the country’s institutions…
Three people have been killed while 11 others, including a Catholic priest, have been abducted in an attack on Karku community in Kauru LGA of Kaduna state. The incident occurred in the early hours of Saturday, barely two days after Governor Uba Sani received 172 christian worshippers abducted in Kurmin Wali, Kajuru LGA , on…
By Shu’aibu Usman Leman Nigeria’s democratic journey is often measured through national politics, presidential elections, legislative contests, and elite power struggles. Yet democracy does not take root at the centre. It begins at the grassroots. It is within local councils, wards, and communities that citizens experience governance most directly. Unfortunately, grassroots governance has long been…
By Joseph Shawulu Kwewum A vaccine is not a cure, and it is not a treatment. If you already have an illness, taking a vaccine will not make it disappear the way pain medicine can stop a headache. Vaccines are meant to prevent disease, not to treat it after you are sick. They help protect…
