Igbu Terhemen, chairman of Fiidi Ward, was found tied up in a bush in Makurdi. The party calls it broad-daylight evil. Pre-election killings are the warning sign nobody should ignore.

After a ten-week recess that began in July, the Senate and House reconvened and then adjourned until 13 October. That is a long time away for a legislature with a budget to oversee.

Atiku's running mate told party leaders that an APC victory in 2027 would end their political careers, and urged them to fight state by state. He also says he technically resigned from Buhari's government.

The FCT minister says political appointees should answer for how their areas vote. He has already turned down the campaign DG job, citing what happened to Amaechi.

President Tinubu has signed a bill letting capital spending under the 2025 budget run to 31 December 2026. In April it was pushed to June. Critics call it an admission of failure.

Daily Trust reports the government skipped the parade again. Farmers want production costs cut, and the SDP's Adewole Adebayo used his own Independence message to warn INEC.

In his 66th Independence Day broadcast the President compared the country in 2023 to a cancer patient, said the emergency treatment is over and promised that bringing down the cost of living is now the priority.

The pro-Tinubu group had already suspended its woman leader, Halimat Tejuosho. The anti-graft agency now has her. Arresting somebody from the President's own camp before an election is worth watching.

The Abia governor says he is not in a position to oppose the President's re-election. Zamfara's Dauda Lawal has backed the Progressive Governors Forum against Wike's coalition. Watch the governors, not the candidates.

The former senator accepts Atiku's right to run, but argues the South is owed a second term after eight years of Buhari. He has a point, and it is not the whole point.

Speaking to editors in Enugu, the NDC candidate said the President has his respect and disagreements should be about policy. Festus Keyamo mocked him for it. Obi's supporters may like it even less.

The former Kaduna governor is deputy chairman of the ADC campaign council, and cannot attend a single meeting. Dele Momodu calls it honouring a prisoner of conscience. It is also a very pointed message.

Days before the 66th Independence anniversary, the President asked Nigerians for patience with his reforms and, in effect, for a second term. The request is reasonable. The evidence he offers for it is thinner.

Sanwo-Olu signed in Sacramento after the California legislature passed a resolution enabling it. The comparison he reached for was Nollywood and Hollywood, Yaba and Silicon Valley.

Ada Elizabeth Fredrick Okwori of the NDP and Nkem Esther Okereke of the NRM. One of them is the first woman in Nigeria to found and register a political party.

Uba Sani's free CNG mass transit has been held up as the model for other states. Gas-powered buses are a real answer to transport costs, and they are also a campaign asset.

The APC presidential campaign council has demanded the fiscal and legal grounding of the production subsidy proposal. It is a fair question, and the answer would be genuinely useful.

Saturday's votes across Gombe, Kano, Bauchi and Delta went four to the ruling party and one to the APM. In Udu, the PDP candidate polled 214 votes against 8,724.

A mandamus suit at the Federal High Court asks whether the commission has set political contribution limits at all, and if so why nobody has been told what they are.

He died in the United Kingdom on Sunday after a long illness. He ran Kogi State from 2003 to 2012, a tenure that included one of the strangest court-ordered interruptions in Nigerian politics.