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Abba Yusuf, governor of Kano, has transmitted the name of Murtala Sule Garo to the state house of assembly for screening and confirmation as deputy governor. The nominee is the son-in-law of Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president of Nigeria. The position became vacant after Aminu Gwarzo resigned as Kano deputy governor on March 27, 2026 and switched political camps, after falling out with Yusuf.

The opposition parties have suffered a fresh setback following the defection of three senators to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, creating further shift in the balance of power in the Senate. Among those who switched allegiance is the deputy minority whip, Osita Ngwu, who represents Enugu West and was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Others include Aliyu Wadada, who defected from the Social Democratic Party, SDP, and Anthony Yaro, representing Gombe South, who also left the PDP. Following the development, Tony Nwoye of the APC has emerged as the new deputy minority whip, replacing Ngwu after his move to the ruling party. In a related development, the Senate President announced the appointment of Allwell Onyesoh as chairman of the Senate committee on works. He replaces the late Barinada Mpigi. The Senate is yet to announce a replacement for Wadada as chairman of the committee on public accounts.

The Oyo State Government has approved the payment of bursaries to law students of Oyo State origin as part of efforts to ease their financial burden. This was disclosed by the Secretary of the Oyo State Scholarship Board, Mr. Amos Akinyanju, during a briefing in his office. According to him, a total sum of ₦153,500,000 has been approved for 307 beneficiaries in the 2024/2025 regular set across the seven accredited law schools nationwide. Mr. Akinyanju further announced that the screening exercise for beneficiaries will commence on Monday, April 27 and run through Thursday, April 30, starting at 10:00 a.m. daily. The exercise will take place at the Scholarship Board Room, Ground Floor, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Agodi, Ibadan. Providing a breakdown of the schedule, he stated that students from Enugu and Yenagoa campuses will be screened on Monday, while those from Port Harcourt and Yola campuses are slated for Tuesday. Students from Abuja and Kano campuse...

The Supreme Court has reserved judgment in a high-profile case involving the leadership crisis of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), where party chairman David Mark is challenging court intervention in the party’s internal affairs. David Mark, the National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), filed an appeal contesting the court's authority to get involved in the party's internal affairs. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court postponed making a decision. Shortly after attorneys for the parties adopted their papers of argument for and against the appeal, a five-member panel of the Supreme Court, presided over by Justice Garba Mohammed, reserved its decision. David Mark's attorney, Jibrin Okutepa, SAN, argued that the Supreme Court's ruling on March 21, 2025, which stated that "no court has jurisdiction to entertain cases bordering on internal affairs of political parties," ended the matter at hand. As a result, Okutepa pleaded with the S...

On Wednesday, former president Goodluck Jonathan visited President Bola Tinubu at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja. The meeting on Wednesday was a part of the two presidents' regular meetings on Nigeria's continental engagements and West African political issues. The Special Advisor to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, verified the visit, which took place at around 4 p.m., by sharing pictures of it on his X account with the caption, "President Tinubu meets former President Goodluck Jonathan at the Villa." A "Two-Year Milestone" document was visible in a corner of the President's office while the two men appeared to be having a casual conversation in the photos. The meeting on Wednesday took place months after Jonathan's previous visit in November 2025, but no formal statement regarding the discussions' agenda was released. On November 29, 2025, just hours after being airlifted out of Bissau due to a coup...

••• A track record of deliberately and meticulously complementing the governance blueprint of His Excellency, Engr. Seyi Makinde, with impactful initiatives addressing education, healthcare access, and local economic challenges. There is an old saying in the land of the brave: "Oro ti a ba fe so fun omo oloko, agbe ni a o fi se apeere." (When you want to speak to a farmer's child, you use the hoe as your illustration). Let us be brutally honest. In the political landscape of Egbeda-Ona Ara, the air is thick with promises from men whose hands have never known the blister of the hoe. They come with fine suits and rehearsed grammar, but their track record is a barren field, a fallow ground where not even five solid seeds have borne fruits in six years. They are still looking for the starting line while the race has long been underway. But there is a name that silences the noise of empty boasting. A name that echoes not from the soapbox, but from the very streets,...