Author: New Daily Prime

Igini, Edevbie being considered – Investigation By Alade Adisa As the tenure of Prof. Mahmood Yakubu is coming to an end as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, President Bola Tinubu is considering filing the position with somebody from the Southern part of the country. Checks by New Daily Prime indicate that two names are being considered for the plum job, they are Mr Mike Igini and Olorogun David Edevbie. Yakubu was first appointed as the chairman of INEC on October 21, 2015 by the then President Muhammadu Buhari as a replacement for Amina Zakari.who was the…

By Alade Adisa For not getting their June salaries over a week into the new month, members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, have gone on strike in some federal universities. The universities are the University of Jos and the University of Abuja, among others. The development, it was gathered, was in line with the resolution of the National Executive Committee of the union that anytime their salaries are not paid within three days of the start of another month, the workers would embark on a ‘no pay, no work’ policy. READ ALSO: Mass failure in UTME: ASUU threatens…

By Alade Adisa  The Federal Government (FG) on Tuesday pegged the admission age into tertiary institutions in the country at 16. The decision was announced by the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, during a Policy Meeting called by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, held in Abuja on this year’s admission to higher institutions. Alausa added that the admission age is not negotiable and urged all institutions to comply. READ ALSO: FG orders foreigners with expired visas to regularise status by August 1 This is just as the government warned against illegal admissions, insisting that any admission conducted outside…

Fines her N5m for contempt of court  By Alade Adisa Justice Binta Nyako has ordered the Senate to recall Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan immediately. The court ruled that the six months suspension given her was too excessive and threw out the objection of the Senate and Senator Godswill Akpabio that it was an internal affair of the Senate that the court could not dabble into. However, the court fined Ms Natasha N5 million for breaching a gag order it placed on all parties to the matter. READ ALSO: Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan to appear in court Tuesday The court frowned at Ms Natasha’s satirical…

By Alade Adisa The N5 billion defamation suit filed by Chief Gani Adams against Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has been thrown out by a Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan. The court, presided over by Justice O.T Adekola-Salami, on Thursday threw out the matter. The case was marked M/1006/2004 and Adams, represented by his counsel, Sikiru Akinrele, claimed that Igboho had violated his fundamental rights by allegedly recording a private telephone conversation without his, Adams’s, consent. He argued that this breach of privacy contravened Section 37 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended. However, when the…

By Alade Adisa The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has now become the special purpose vehicle that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Senate President, David Mark, former Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola and others have adopted for achieving their political ambition of unseating President Bola Tinubu in 2027. The decision was taken late on Tuesday night during a meeting of the anti-Tinubu group in Abuja. The ADC’s National Chairman, Ralph Okey Nwosu, reportedly agreed to vacate his seat to allow the new members to take charge. As a result, new interim officers were approved for the party. Among them were…

By Alade Adisa  The Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND, has said it is not reopening its loan portal yet. The body has therefore warned the public to be wary of some claims online that President Bola Tinubu has directed it to reopen the loans portal and also click a link purported to belong to it. It described the claim as fraudulent and intended to defraud innocent members of the public. In a statement on Monday, the Director, Strategic Communications, Oseyemi Oluwatuyi, read, ”The attention of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has been drawn to a fraudulent message currently circulating…

By Alade Adisa Armed security personnel from the Nigeria Police and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have taken over the national secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abuja. This is as a result of moves by the different groups in the party to meet today at the same venue. The groups are led by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike and the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde. READ ALSO: Gov. Mbah affirms loyalty to PDP The dispute centres on the legitimacy of recent decisions taken by the Acting National Chairman, with the PDP’s…

By Alade Adisa  The sudden resignation of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdullahi Ganduje, came as a surprise to many people. What could have happened? Some were quick to ask on Friday when the news hit the airwaves. Checks by New Daily Prime show that it all has to do with calculations for the 2027 presidential elections. Kano, Rivers, Lagos factor A scrutiny of previous elections in the country shows that Kano, Rivers and Lagos states are the leading swing states in Nigeria. The trend has been that the winner of the presidential election wins at…

Kayode Adebiyi | 22 June 2025 I find it really sad that some of our politicians — despite the fact that a few of them, like Nasir El-Rufai, are actually very book-smart and can hold their own intellectually. Unfortunately, they lack political maturity and emotional intelligence. For the life of me, who told them that the solution to Nigeria’s nascent democratic journey is the registration of a new political party? You would think these guys are smart, especially since some of them have been in the political space since 1999. The APC worked in 2013/14 because Nigeria and Nigerians were…