Abisco VS Mayor KK 2027: APC Shuts Door on Primary Review!
The All Progressives Congress has finalised its list of candidates for the 2027 general elections and ruled out any review of its recently concluded primaries, even as aggrieved aspirants across the country continue to pile pressure on the party including a mounting dispute in the Alimosho Federal Constituency of Lagos State.
Ayobo-Ipaja Moves to Tackle Indiscriminate Waste Disposal
The Supervisor for Environment of the Ayobo-Ipaja Local Council Development Area, Hon. Okeowo Samson Olabode, has led a high-level engagement to the Executive Chairman, Hon. (Dr.) Agbaje Lukmon Abiodun, as part of efforts to address the growing challenge of indiscriminate waste disposal across the council area.
BELFAST BURNS: ANTI-IMMIGRANT RIOTS GRIP NORTHERN IRELAND AFTER SUDANESE MAN CHARGED WITH KNIFE ATTACK
By Olufemi Odeyemi
BELFAST, June 11, 2026 — Northern Ireland descended into two nights of fierce anti-immigrant rioting this week, with masked mobs torching homes, vehicles, and buildings across Belfast after a brutal knife attack allegedly carried out by a Sudanese asylum seeker sent shockwaves across the country.
The unrest was triggered by a knife attack allegedly perpetrated by a 30-year-old Sudanese refugee, who was charged with attempted murder, possession of a bladed weapon and making threats to kill after he repeatedly slashed a man in his forties in the head and neck on Monday. Northern Ireland police chief Jon Boutcher confirmed that the suspect had arrived in the United Kingdom in 2023, travelling via Paris and Dublin.
EJIGBADERO ADMINISTRATION ACCELERATES INFRASTRUCTURE DRIVE ACROSS AGBADO/OKE-ODO
The administration of Executive Chairman Alhaji Abiodun Ishola Jimoh Ejigbadero is delivering visible change across Agbado/Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area, with a string of road construction, market development, and institutional upgrade projects now completed or at advanced stages.
Completed road projects across the council's wards include Omisesan Road, Yusuf Street, Omiata Road, Ogundare Street, Ire Akari Street, Odeleye Street, and Awonusi Street, off Kola Bus Stop. Residents in Ward B and Ward E, among other areas, are already benefiting from improved access and safer movement following the rehabilitation of key streets that had long been in poor condition.
HON. AYUBA DEFEATS ADEBAJO WITH 37,021 VOTES, DEMANDS APC RECOGNITION AHEAD OF 2027 ELECTIONS By Olufemi Odeyemi
Lagos, June 4, 2026 — The current member of the House of Representatives representing Alimosho Federal Constituency, Hon. Ganiyu Adele Ayuba, popularly known as Mayor K.K., has called on the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to formally recognise him as the party's duly elected candidate for the 2027 general elections, following his landslide victory at the APC primary election.
Hon. Ayuba made the declaration at a press conference held today for him in Egbeda, Lagos, where he announced that he polled 37,021 votes against the 2,793 votes recorded by his closest rival, Hon. Olabisi Adebajo, also known as Abisco, a margin that he described as a clear and unambiguous expression of the will of the people.
"I am the popular candidate and the winner of this primary election," Ayuba told the gathering. "The figures speak for themselves, and I call on the APC leadership to do the right thing by registering my name as the candidate of our great party ahead of the 2027 elections."
In a show of party loyalty, Hon. Ayuba also appealed directly to President Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to intervene in the matter, reaffirming his unwavering loyalty to the President and expressing confidence that the father of the party would ensure that justice prevails in the resolution of the primary election dispute.
The press conference, held at Egbeda, drew a wide cross-section of stakeholders, including APC party leadership in Alimosho, royal fathers, religious leaders, members of the Community Development Committee (CDC), youths, and party faithful, a turnout that underscored the breadth of support behind the incumbent lawmaker.
Hon. Ayuba, who currently occupies the Alimosho seat at the House of Representatives, positioned his overwhelming victory as a mandate from the grassroots and urged the party not to subvert the democratic process.
As the 2027 electoral cycle draws closer, the outcome of this primary and the APC leadership's response to Ayuba's demand is expected to shape the political landscape in one of Lagos State's most populous federal constituencies.
ZENITH BANK UNVEILS UPGRADED MOBILE APP WITH INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER AND MORE
Redesigned app brings global banking to customers' fingertips
Zenith Bank Plc has launched a revamped version of its mobile banking app, raising the bar for digital banking in Nigeria with a host of new features including seamless international money transfers that customers can now execute directly from their smartphones.
PROTEST OUTSIDE KENYA'S PLANNED US EBOLA QUARANTINE CENTRE
Residents of Nanyuki rally against facility at Laikipia Air Base
Hundreds of youths in the Kenyan town of Nanyuki have taken to the streets to demonstrate against a proposed Ebola quarantine centre at Laikipia Air Base, after the United States announced plans to send Americans exposed to Ebola abroad to the facility rather than flying them home.
Protesters marched to the gates of the air base on Monday, chanting anti-Ebola slogans, two days after Kenya's High Court suspended the establishment of the facility pending a legal challenge filed by the Law Society of Kenya and a constitutional watchdog. Both organisations argue that Kenya's fragile health system makes it unsuitable to host foreign Ebola patients.
TINUBU COMMISSIONS THREE NAVAL VESSELS AT 70TH ANNIVERSARY FLEET REVIEW
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday commissioned three new naval vessels—NNS Oloibiri, NNS Mambila, and NNS Gurara—praising the Nigerian Navy for seven decades of safeguarding the nation’s maritime borders and economic interests.
Speaking as the reviewing officer at the 2026 International Fleet Review at the Eko Atlantic Waterfront in Lagos, Tinubu commended the Navy’s success in wiping out piracy and curbing crude oil theft in the Gulf of Guinea, noting that these operations have directly boosted national oil production and investor confidence.
FUEL PRICE SLASH: DANGOTE REFINERY CUTS PETROL AND DIESEL RATES AS FILLING STATIONS BEGIN PASSING SAVINGS TO NIGERIANS
Fresh relief for consumers as pump prices drop nationwide — but marketers warn full pass-through awaits new stock
Lagos, June 1, 2026
Nigerian motorists and businesses received a measure of economic relief this week as petrol and diesel prices fell across filling stations nationwide, following fresh gantry price reductions by the Dangote Petroleum Refinery.
The refinery on May 30 reduced its petrol gantry price from N1,275 to N1,250 per litre, while diesel dropped from N1,800 to N1,700 per litre cuts of N25 and N100 respectively. The Dangote Group spokesperson Anthony Chijiena confirmed the development, adding that the adjustments were expected to reflect on retail prices nationwide.
FINCRA TECHNOLOGIES ACCELERATES PAN-AFRICAN EXPANSION WITH GHANA LICENCE, CANADA APPROVAL AND CONTINENT-WIDE AMBITIONS
Nigerian payments infrastructure firm cements its position as a major force in Africa's cross-border payments market
By Tessy Brown | Lagos, June 1, 2026
In what industry observers are describing as a series of significant regulatory milestones, Fincra Technologies — the Nigerian payments infrastructure company quietly building some of Africa's most critical financial rails — has secured a string of licences across multiple continents in the space of just a few months, signalling an ambitious expansion strategy that places it at the heart of Africa's booming digital payments landscape.
TRITEK SUMMIT RAISES CONCERNS OVER AFRICA'S DIGITAL SKILLS GAP EMPLOYABILITY
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EdTech leaders, industry experts converge in Lagos to confront a widening crisis between classroom training and workplace readiness
A high-profile gathering of educators, technology founders, and industry professionals has sounded a loud alarm over a deepening employability crisis across Africa, warning that the continent's rapidly growing edtech sector may be producing graduates who are ill-equipped for the jobs that actually exist or that will exist in the near future.
Abisco VS Mayor KK 2027: APC Shuts Door on Primary Review! The All Progressives Congress has finalised its list of candidates for the 2027 ...
