Shettima will lead the delegation to New York and deliver Nigeria's national statement. Three consecutive absences is no longer a scheduling decision, it is a position.

Taiwo Michael Fakunle, 58, was killed at his home in Kensington on 4 September. Abuja has demanded an investigation. This is the second South Africa story in a fortnight.

Archbishop Kawas says he foresees a 2027 win, rejects the label of fake bishop, and says Peter Obi never gave him a dollar or a naira. Nigerian politics runs on endorsements like this one.

He urged Nigerians to unite and mobilised support for President Tinubu and Governor Uba Sani. Serving ministers campaign in every cycle, and the defence portfolio is not like the others.

INEC has published confirmed candidates state by state. Ondo alone has 122. These are the races that decide what a president can actually pass.

Reports say Islamic scholars were abducted at Senator Yari's residence after a prayer session. The Army has responded. The gap between the two versions is the story worth following.

The figure comes from the Auditor-General's own 2023 report. The commission asking to be trusted with the 2027 election is being asked to account for what it spent on the last one.

Governor of old Gongola, Minister of Industries, PDP national chairman under Goodluck Jonathan. He was buried in Yola this morning, and the tributes are already doing political work.

INEC has published the final list of presidential candidates and running mates. Tinubu, Atiku and Obi lead it, sixteen of the eighteen are men, and the campaign now has a closed field.

A pledge made in Abeokuta on 18 August, a cheque presented three weeks later. In a country where public promises routinely evaporate, the timeline is the newsworthy part.

2,700 former staff, 2,100 already paid, and a wait long enough that some of the beneficiaries died before it ended. The delay is the story, not the payment.

Registration without a card is disenfranchisement by another route, the party says. The fix it is asking for is a spreadsheet, which is what makes the request hard to refuse.

The commission's chairman spent a week meeting technology firms about AI and cybersecurity. The 2023 glitch has still never been explained, and that is the harder problem.

An APC governor telling a party rally that states, not the president, must account for 15.8 trillion naira. It is an unusual thing to say out loud, and it happens to be correct.

A production subsidy cutting the cost of crude to Nigerian refiners, rather than an import subsidy on the pump price. It is a real distinction, and it decides who ends up holding the cost.

The commission argues Atiku Abubakar has no standing and is abusing the court process. Tinubu and the APC have asked for the same. None of those arguments touch the allegation itself.

Obi's supporters will place people at polling units and follow materials and results through to collation. It is legal, it is the correct response to 2023, and it is an enormous logistical undertaking.

The First Lady has unveiled a national community food bank for the South East alongside an ICT experience centre. Food banks are good things. A country needing one at national scale is telling you something.

Legislative by-elections eight days from now. They decide very little in themselves and they are the closest thing to a rehearsal anybody gets before 2027.

Atiku's 2023 running mate, speaking in Delta, says he understood the election was lost before it was announced. It lands in the same week Peter Obi claims he actually won it.