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EDO State Government says it is currently attending to over 72 cases of child abuse, with most of the sexual abuse cases involving fathers and their minor daughters. The State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Eugenia Abdallah, disclosed this while giving an account of the ministry’s activities between October 2025 and August 2026 […]

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FORMER Anambra State governor and presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) in 2027 poll, Peter Obi, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), security agencies and political actors to ensure that the August 15 Osun State governorship election is conducted peacefully, transparently and without intimidation. Obi, in a statement r...

AT least 73 election-related violent incidents were recorded in Osun State between October 2025 and July 2026, with 78 per cent occurring between May and July as tensions heightened ahead of Saturday’s governorship election.  The finding is contained in the 2026 Osun Election Integrity and Security Assessment report, produced by the Kimpact Development Initiative (KDI) […]

THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has added the Social Democratic Party (SDP) governorship candidate, Francis Olugbenga Ajala, and his running mate, Faseke Babajimi Oladipo, to the ballot for Saturday’s Osun State governorship election scheduled to hold on Saturday, August 15, following a Federal High Court judgment. INEC announced the development in a stat...

NIGERIA’S pharmaceutical sub-sector is seeking collaboration with international pharmaceutical companies as part of efforts to strengthen local manufacturing capacity and reduce dependence on imported medicines, the Pharmaceutical Council of Nigeria (PCN) has said. The PCN Registrar, Ibrahim Ahmed, told The FactCheckHub Editor, Motunrayo Joel, in an exclusive interview recent...