1. Former Rivers State Governor and presidential aspirant of the African Democratic Congress, Rotimi Amaechi, on Tuesday rejected the outcome of the party’s presidential primary election, describing the results collated from across the country as “concocted.”
Amaechi, one of the three contenders for the ADC presidential ticket alongside former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and economist Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, announced his position in a statement posted on his verified X handle, @ChibuikeAmaechi.
2.The Federal Government has approved a 50 percent reduction in fares on all passenger train services operated by the Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, for the Eid-el-Kabir celebration. The announcement was made by the Federal Ministry of Transportation in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary, Engr. Funsho Adebiyi.
3. The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday declared former President Goodluck Jonathan eligible to participate in the 2027 presidential election. Delivering judgment in a suit filed by a lawyer, Johnmary Jideobi, the presiding judge, Justice Peter Lifu, held that Jonathan could contest the election.
4. An estimated 30,000 armed Fulani militants are operating across Nigeria in groups ranging from 10 to 1,000 members, according to the May 2026 report released by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. The report stated that the militants have become some of the deadliest non-state actors driving religious freedom violations in Nigeria
5. A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday held that the Independent National Electoral Commission possesses the power to issue a timetable for elections and alter it as it deems fit. Justice James Omotosho said the 2027 election timetable, issued by INEC, stating the timeframe within which political parties are to hold their primaries and the timeframe for the submission of membership registers of political parties, “is valid and legally issued.”
6. Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) Presidential candidate Peter Obi and National Leader Seriake Dickson have assured members that the party would not be turned into a ‘’special-purpose vehicle.’’ The duo gave the assurance during a dinner for the party’s aspirants for next year’s general poll in Abuja on Monday night.
“We are not building a special-purpose vehicle for anybody. We are building a party that will stand the test of time, a party of principles and service, not a one-man show,” Obi stated.
7. Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, one of three aspirants seeking the Presidential ticket of the African Democratic Congress for the 2027 election, has announced that he would not participate in the next stage of the exercise over alleged irregularities. In a statement on Tuesday, Hayatu-Deen said reports of widespread vote rigging from different parts of the country had raised serious doubts about the credibility of the process.
8. The Peoples Democratic Party, backed by the FCT Minister, Nyelsom Wike has adopted Senator Sandy Onor as its consensus Presidential candidate for the 2027 Presidential election. Senator Onor, who represented Cross River Central between 2019 and 2023, was the only aspirant who purchased the party’s nomination form to contest the Presidential election.
9. day after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) appealed the verdict of a Federal High Court that voided its timeline on party register and election guidelines, seeking a stay of execution of that judgment, another Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday upheld INEC’s authority to fix timelines for political party primaries ahead of the 2027 general elections. The court, however, voided two of the commission’s key deadlines for candidate submissions, ruling they violated statutory provisions of the Electoral Act 2026
10. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has re-arrested a suspected drug trafficker, Ibrahim Yusuf Lawal, who allegedly jumped bail and was falsely declared dead by his wife in an affidavit submitted to a Federal High Court in Benin, Edo State. The Edo State Commander of the NDLEA, Mitchell Ofoyeju, disclosed this on Tuesday, saying the suspect was brought before the Federal High Court in Benin on May 26, 2026, after operatives uncovered that he was alive despite claims of his death.
