Lula thanks Brazil's youth for historic election win
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has won an unprecedented fourth term, thanking Brazil’s youth for helping to defeat right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro with more than 51% of the vote. Bolsonaro said he would not concede defeat and would seek to annul the result.
Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State has thrown his weight behind the Rainbow Coalition led by Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike, saying that he will back any coalition that supports President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid in the 2027 general elections. Eno, who is seeking re-election on the platform of the APC after his defection from the PDP in June 2025, said the two parties had agreed to support Tinubu, the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and himself in the 2027 general elections.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on Nigerian youths to shun campaign of division, segregation, discrimination and marginalisation. Earlier, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ajith Kumar, announced approval of new programmes by the National Universities Commission (NUC), adding that the university was the first in North-West Nigeria to receive approval for the B.Sc.
Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang, has pledged unprecedented electoral support for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the January 16, 2027 presidential election, saying the state is prepared to reward the President for what he described as efforts to rescue Nigeria from economic difficulties and put the country on the path to recovery. The rally was attended by Vice President Kashim Shettima, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, wife of the President, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, APC National Chairman Nentawe Yilwatda, other party leaders and supporters from across the North-Central region.
By Luminous Jannamike ABUJA — Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar’s 2027 presidential ambition is drawing attention amid growing discontent with the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Northern Nigeria, claims of a shift in the late President Muhammadu Buhari’s political support base and mounting public frustration over economic hardship. Northern calculations Adding another dimension to Atiku’s Northern calculations, former Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Solomon Dalung, an African Democratic Congress, ADC, chieftain who served under Buhari, claimed that the late president’s…
Midterm elections have defanged the US president – leaving critics to worry about his next move in his ‘fat Elvis’ stage It was just before 3am when Donald Trump entered a crowded Manhattan ballroom, greeted by chants of “USA! USA” and theme music from the Hollywood film Air Force One. That was the scene 10 years ago this week when Trump, a businessman and reality TV star, stunned the world by beating Hillary Clinton to the White House.
Ogra, Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Digital Engagement, Strategy and New Media, has disputed claims that the president’s convoy was attacked by youths following his attendance at Friday prayers at the Shagari Central Mosque in Area 1, Abuja. Tinubu had visited the mosque in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for the Juma’at prayer on Friday.