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The Presidential Working Group on the National Policing Bill has extended the deadline for the submission of memoranda and position papers on the proposed legislation to Friday, August 21, 2026, at 5.00 pm West Africa Time. The Presidency had, on Wednesday, announced that the public submission would close by 5 pm on Thursday, August 13. […]

Former Director-General of the State Security Service, Lawal Daura The presidential candidate of the Allied People’s Movement and Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, on Thursday announced former Director-General of the Department of State Services, Lawal Daura, as his running mate for the 2027 presidential election. Makinde announced this at the elective national convention of […]

Inspector General of Police, Olatunji Disu. Photo: NPF The Nigeria Police Force on Thursday said as many as 30 Commissioners of Police would be on duty during the Osun State governorship election, which holds across the state on Saturday. This was disclosed by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Anietie Iniedu, while addressing journalists in […]

Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), security agencies and the Tinubu administration against militarising the Osun governorship election or using state institutions for partisan advantage. Speaking at the ADC National Youth Leadership Summit in Abuja, Atiku described the Osun […]

Senator Francis Fadahunsi The Commissioner of Police in charge of the 2026 Osun State Governorship Election, Samuel Etaifo, on Wednesday explained why the lawmaker representing Osun East Senatorial District, Francis Fadahunsi, was invited by the command following a comment attributed to him. Etaifo, in a statement signed by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Abiodun Ojelabi, […]

Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olabode George, has declared that his long-standing political rivalry with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu no longer translates into personal enmity. Politics(Left) He said during a national television programme yesterday that they have moved beyond the bitterness that once defined their relationship. George advised that politics […]

Management, staff, students mourn By John Dike, Osogbo The Dean of the Faculty of Administration at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Prof Rafiu Oyesola Salawu, has passed on. He died on Sunday, August 9, 2026, bringing to an end the career of an accomplished scholar and administrator whose brief tenure as dean was marked […]

The Yoruba Ronu Group, a socio-political organisation campaigning for the re-election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has congratulated the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Professor Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, on his 58th birthday. In a statement signed by its Chairman, Prince Diran Iyantan, the group described Yilwatda as an accomplished academic, engineer, administrator […]

HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has rejected the interim report of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on the controversial Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), saying the findings raised more questions than they answered. HURIWA, in a statement signed on Friday by […]