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Daud Olatunji The APC Presidential Campaign Council, in a statement issued on Friday by its spokesman, Dele Alake, said the revelations arising from the arbitration had raised questions that, in its view, should disqualify Atiku from seeking the presidency in 2027. The controversy centres on a payment of $500,000 transferred on January 30, 2003, through China Castle Investments Limited, an offshore company controlled by Adesanya, into Douglas’s Citibank account in the United States. The payment came less than four months before Sunrise was purportedly awarded a build-operate-transfer contract for the Mambilla project by then Minister of Power and Steel, Olu…

Mujeeb Akindoyin The House of Representatives has commenced an investigation into the prolonged exclusion of thousands of law graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria from admission into the Nigerian Law School for professional training and Call to Bar. The investigation followed a petition by more than 5,000 affected graduates under the aegis of the Backlog of Law Graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria, who appealed to the National Assembly to intervene in the dispute between the university and the regulatory authorities. The House Committee on Public Petitions invited the management of NOUN and the Nigerian Law…

Daud Olatunji The Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress-led administration of using the power of incumbency to harass, intimidate and suppress opposition activities ahead of the 2027 general elections. The opposition party also alleged that its campaign train was attacked with gunshots, stones and other weapons at Ososa in Odogbolu Local Government Area, during its Ogun East Senatorial District campaign flag-off on Wednesday. The PDP State Chairman, Dr Abayomi Tella, made the allegations on Thursday at a press briefing held at the party’s secretariat in Abeokuta, where he called on the…

Toyyibat Qasim The Gender Development Initiative (GenDi) has called for a review and strengthening of relevant laws in Ogun State to tackle human trafficking, child abuse, violence, exploitation and other forms of abuse against vulnerable persons. The call was made during a legislative advocacy engagement led by GenDi with the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Oludaisi Elemide, at the Assembly Complex on September 1, 2026. The engagement was organised within the framework of the Schools Anti-Trafficking Education and Advocacy Project (STEAP), being implemented by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), with GenDi serving…

….NAPTIP, ICMPD, security agencies, community leaders, others demand stronger border vigilance Daud Olatunji Stakeholders in Idiroko, a major border community in Ogun State, have adopted a 25-point communique aimed at strengthening the fight against human trafficking and violence against persons along the state’s border corridors. The communique was issued at the end of a two-day community engagement and town hall meeting organised in Idiroko on September 10 and 11, 2026, by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development under its Building an Environment Free of Human Trafficking and Violence Against Persons (TIPVAP) and School Anti-Trafficking Education and Advocacy Project (STEAP).…

…Says no senator can single-handedly insert, approve ₦250bn projects Daud Olatunji The Media and Publicity Committee of the Ogun State APC Campaign Council has dismissed allegations linking the party’s 2027 governorship candidate, Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, popularly known as Yayi, to alleged budget insertions and diversion of public funds amounting to ₦250 billion. The committee described the allegations as “false, baseless and politically motivated,” insisting that the Senator, despite being Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, does not possess the constitutional power to unilaterally insert or approve projects in the national budget. The statement, signed by the committee’s Chairman,…

The Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has described a professional and politically neutral civil service as indispensable to effective governance, sustainable development and economic growth. Oyebanji, who spoke through the state Head of Service, Dr Folakemi Olomojobi, made the declaration at the 12th South-West Regional Quarterly Meeting of the Association of Retired Heads of Service and Permanent Secretaries held in Ado Ekiti. The governor commended retired top civil servants across the region for their contributions to public administration, saying their professionalism, integrity and experience had helped build a durable foundation for governance in the South-West. Oyebanji also disclosed that his…

….Seizures’ DPV put at N2.47bn, 3,893 cannabis Parcels Handed Over To NDLEA Daud Olatunji The Ogun I Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted 1,204 bags of foreign parboiled rice, 1.878 tonnes of suspected cannabis, 428 pneumatic tyres and thousands of litres of petroleum products in its anti-smuggling operations across the state. The Acting Area Controller of the command, Deputy Comptroller Oladapo Afeni, disclosed this during a press conference at the command headquarters in Idiroko, Ogun State, where he presented the operational performance of the command. Afeni said the command also seized 24 bales of second-hand clothing, four…

Zainab Abioye The Peoples Democratic Party in Kano State has replaced its earlier governorship candidate, Muhammad Bello Dalha, with Muhammad Sani Abacha, son of former military Head of State, General Sani Abacha, ahead of the 2027 governorship election. Abacha was affirmed as the party’s candidate during an expanded meeting of the Kano State PDP executive committee on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, following Dalha’s withdrawal from the race. Multiple reports, including Vanguard and TheCable, independently reported the development. The development means Abacha will return to the Kano governorship contest on the PDP platform, having also contested the 2023 governorship election as…

…Petition Accuses Senate Appropriation Committee Chairman Of Massive Project Insertions ….Petitioners Cite ₦200bn Vague Allocations, ₦50bn Suspected Duplication Daud Olatunji The 2027 Ogun State governorship race has been thrown into a fresh controversy following a petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission over alleged massive budgetary insertions linked to the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, popularly known as Yayi. The petitioners accused Adeola, who represents Ogun West Senatorial District and chairs the Senate Committee on Appropriation, of allegedly manipulating the federal budgetary process to insert…