1. The Senate on Tuesday bowed to intense public pressure and approved the electronic transmission of election results to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s Result Viewing Portal, IReV, while permitting manual collation to serve as a backup where technology fails.
The decision followed an emergency reconsideration of a disputed clause in the Electoral Act (Repeal and Re-enactment) Amendment Bill, 2026, after days of nationwide outrage, street protests, and sustained criticism from opposition figures, civil society organisations and youth movements.
2. The Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS), has projected N40.7 trillion target for this fiscal year. The projected figure is N6 trillion more than the N34.3 trillion in the 2026 budget already assented to by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Meeting the N40.7 trillion projection this year will mean that the NRS must outperform the Federal Government’s budgeted revenue estimate for the year
3. A former Kaduna State Governor and ex-Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nasir El-Rufai, has dismissed claims of a personal fallout with President Bola Tinubu, stating that he never had a personal relationship with the President in the first place. Speaking during an interview on Trust TV on Monday, El-Rufai said his support for Tinubu’s 2023 presidential bid was driven by party loyalty and political arrangements, not friendship.
4. Benue State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of 14 passengers travelling from the Igede axis of Oju and Obi Local Government Areas of the state. The police spokesperson, DSP Udeme Edet, confirmed the incident, which occurred along the Okpokwu axis of the state on Monday evening, saying investigations were ongoing.
5. Two persons —a commercial bus driver and his passenger—were burnt to death, while eight others sustained injuries after a minibus caught fire along the Okota–Mile 2 corridor in Lagos State. The incident was confirmed on Tuesday by the spokesperson of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Mr Adebayo Taofiq, who described it as a “devastating road traffic occurrence.”
6. Ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday called on opposition political parties to unite in advocating for transparent and credible elections, stressing the urgent need for a fully electronic transmission system to reduce confusion in Nigeria’s electoral process. He spoke at a press briefing in Minna, Niger State, following a closed-door meeting with former Military President General Ibrahim Babangida.
7. Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has expressed strong optimism that the lingering political crisis in Rivers State is close to a lasting resolution, following what he described as a decisive intervention by President Bola Tinubu. Wike spoke to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday after inspecting several ongoing projects in the FCT.
8. Transparency International, TI, a global coalition against corruption, has again ranked Nigeria as the 36th most corrupt country in the world, retrogressing from 140th in 2024 to 142nd in 2025. While number one represents the cleanest country in the world, which is Denmark, 182 represents the most corrupt country in the world.
9. Seven persons have been killed in two separate attacks in Benue State. In the first attack, five people were killed by suspected armed herdsmen on Entekpa community, Adoka, Otukpo Local Government Area of the state, while gunmen on Monday night along the Utonkon axis of the state, ambushed a commercial bus conveying passengers, killing two persons and abducting 14 others.
10. A few hours after deploying a special force to Plateau, the Chief of Army Staff, Waidi Shaibu, has sent other teams to Benue, Nasarawa and Taraba, to serve as a “force multiplier” to Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS), a joint task force, in these states.
According to a statement issued by Ahmad Zubairu, the acting spokesperson for OPWS, the deployment of this team—COAS Special Intervention Battalion XV—was in line with Mr Shaibu’s efforts to strengthen internal security and stabilise vulnerable communities
