1. Political economist Prof. Pat Utomi has stated that if the former Anambra State governor decides to run as someone’s vice-presidential candidate, he will immediately stop supporting him.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday, Prof. Utomi assured that the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party will contest for the presidency in 2027, following his formal defection to the African Democratic Congress (ADC) on
2. The controversy over the Federal Government’s intervention fund for victims of 2024 Ibadan explosion victims has not fizzled out. Yesterday, the Oyo state government clarified that the N30 billion cash received by Governor Seyi Makinde is still being kept in the state’s special intervention account
3. The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has directed his lawyers to withdraw all ongoing defamation lawsuits against several individuals, saying the counsel of a priest moved him during a New Year’s Mass.
4. Ogun State Police Command has arrested a man who drove the ill-fated Lexus SUV conveying the former World boxing champion, Anthony Joshua, and two of his close friends before it crashed on Monday, around Danco, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The driver is a 47-year-old man known as Kayode Adeniyi.
5. The Nigeria Police Force has suspended the nationwide enforcement of its tinted glass permit policy following an interim court order that restrained the move.
6. The Senator representing Abia North, Orji Kalu, has vowed to do all within his powers to deliver Abia State to the All Progressives Congress in the 2027 general elections. Kalu made the pledge at Ekoli, Edda Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, during his annual New Year visit to the Chairman of the APC in Ebonyi, Chief Stanley Okoro-Emegha, on Thursday.
7. Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, and the Minister of the Federal Capital, Territory, Nyesom Wike, were on Thursday locked in a war of words over allegations of terrorism financing levelled against the Bauchi governor. In an interview, Mohammed alleged a political witch-hunt by President Bola Tinubu government, adding that Wike was behind the terrorism financing charges filed against Bauchi State Commissioner for Finance, Yakubu Adamu.
8. The implementation of new tax laws commenced on Thursday on a clearer and more transparent footing. The National Assembly directed the release of Certified True Copies (CTCs) of the harmonised bills that were transmitted by lawmakers and assented to by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
9. The Nigerian military said security conditions in the South-East have improved significantly, following intensified troop operations and the imprisonment of separatist leaders Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Simon Ekpa. Major General Michael Onoja stated that crimes and other criminal activities have reduced across the region over the past year as a result of sustained military pressure in the South-Eastern states and recent court rulings against the group’s leadership.
10. No fewer than seven persons have been confirmed dead following a terror attack on Bum community in Chugwi, Vwang District of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State. The incident reportedly occurred around 11:00 p.m. on December 31, 2025, as residents were preparing to usher in the New Year, thereby marring New Year celebrations in the area.
