Tanzania’s Hassan Secures 98% Of Votes To Win Re-election Tanzanian President Samia Hassan has been declared winner of the country’s presidential election. Hassan garnered an overwhelming 98 percent of the votes, dominating nearly all 32 million ballots in the poll conducted on Wednesday. “I hereby announce Samia Suluhu Hassan as the winner of the presidential election under the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party,” Jacobs Mwambegele, the nation’s electoral chief, said on Saturday morning. International observers had raised concerns over the opacity of the electoral process and the widespread chaos that has reportedly claimed over 500 lives and left many more…
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Wike Brags, Mocks PDP As Court Stops National Convention The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, Nyesom Wike, has backed a court ruling that halted the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) National Convention slated for November 15 and 16, 2025, calling it “a very wise decision.” Wike made the remarks on Friday evening while addressing some PDP stakeholders at his residence in Abuja. “If you don’t follow the law, then there’s nothing we can do. There’s nothing we can do. It’s unfortunate that the National Convention cannot hold; the purported national convention,” the minister stated. The Peoples Democratic Party…
Man Kills Wife Over Kuli-kuli A Kano State High Court has ordered the remand of one Idris Kurma in prison for allegedly killing his wife, Aisha Idris, after she reportedly refused to grind groundnuts to make kuli-kuli. Justice Musa Dahiru gave the order after the defendant was arraigned on a one-count charge of culpable homicide, contrary to Section 221 of the Penal Code. The tragic incident was said to have occurred in Goda Village, located in the Shanono Local Government Area of Kano State. During the hearing, the prosecution counsel, Barrister Lamido Abba Soron Dinki, read the charge to the…
BREAKING: Angry Youths Burn Down Electoral Commission Office Aggrieved residents of Magama Ward in Nasko Local Government Area, Niger State, have set the Niger State Independent Electoral Commission (NSIEC) office on fire following reports that official result sheets were missing from materials delivered for the forthcoming local government election. Eyewitnesses said electoral officials brought ballot papers to the area but allegedly failed to include the official result sheets, which triggered outrage among the residents, who accused officials of attempting to manipulate the election process. The protest quickly turned violent, with the electoral office engulfed in flames. The full extent of…
BREAKING: Tension In Nigeria As Terrorists Abduct Speaker Hon. Samaila Bagudo, the Deputy Speaker of Kebbi State House of Assembly, has been abducted by bandits. According to the police, armed men invaded the lawmaker’s hometown in Bagudo Local Government Area of the state and abducted him shortly after he had observed Isha’i prayers and was returning home. It said a team of security operatives had been dispatched for a major search to rescue him. According to a statement issued by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, CSP Nafiu Abubakar, the incident occurred on Friday, October 31, 2025, at about 8:20p.m. It…
Nigerian Govt Fires Back At Trump Over Genocide Comment The Federal Government has responded to the redesignation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern by President Donald Trump of the United States. In December 2020, the U.S. Department of State had designated Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC). On Friday, Trump took a similar step, claiming that Christianity was facing existential threat in Nigeria. “Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter. I am hereby making Nigeria a “COUNTRY OF PARTICULAR CONCERN” —…
BREAKING: Tinubu’s Minister Collapses After Seeing His Name On The ‘Kill List’ Of Alleged Coup Plotters The sudden illness of Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, who reportedly took ill suddenly on the eve of his scheduled trip to Washington, D.C., for the World Bank Fall Meetings. According to multiple sources familiar with the development, Edun’s collapse was not due to a medical condition alone but allegedly linked to a shocking security revelation that left him terrified. A top source said: “Minister of Finance Edun collapsed when told he was number 4 on the kill list of alleged coup plotters.”…
Presidency: Tinubu Showed ‘Where He Is Coming From’ By Commuting Sentences Of Drug Traffickers, Murderess Maryam Sanda President Bola Tinubu displayed his personal philosophy and showed “where he is coming from” when he granted clemency to some drug traffickers and the murderess Maryam Sanda. Mr Onanuga told ARISE TV on Thursday night that the president’s decision was informed by his “personal philosophy” of compassion, shaped by his life experience. “Even the second list still contained some drug offenders, who were also given clemency, not pardon. Maryam too was given clemency,” Mr Onanuga said, addressing the criticisms that trailed Mr Tinubu’s…
US Fires Back At Soyinka; Says Visas Are Privilege, Not Right United States Consulate in Lagos has clarified that visas issued to foreign nationals are a privilege, not a right, following reports of the revocation of Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka’s US visa. Responding to an inquiry from a national newspaper on Thursday, the Consulate said it could not comment on Soyinka’s case due to confidentiality laws. “Under US law, visa records are generally confidential. We will not discuss the details of this individual visa case,” said Julia McKay, Public Diplomacy Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Lagos. McKay,…
Military Makes More Arrests As Other Suspected Coup Plotters Are On The Run Not less than Two military officers are on the run after they were named among those who allegedly plotted a coup to terminate Nigeria’s democracy. The military authorities have continued to make arrests after preliminary interrogating 16 of the suspects who were seized in the first week of October over the botched plot. Ibom Focus understands that 18 officers were to be arrested, but two fled and are now believed to be out of the country. JM Ganaks, a major with service no N/14363, who hails from…