Author: Naija Daily News

As attention turns to the 2027 Lagos 2027 governorship election, voter turnout could become one of the most telling factors in the outcome of the contest. How many people voted in the 2023 Lagos governorship election? The 2023 Lagos governorship election offers a striking starting point. INEC recorded 7,060,195 registered voters and 6,214,970 collected Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), yet only 1,173,631 votes were cast in the governorship election. The figures raise a central question for Lagos 2027 governorship election: how many of the state’s millions of registered voters will actually turn up to vote? The answer could matter because the…

This Saturday, September 26, Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS) in Lagos could become the biggest cinema Nigeria has ever seen as Nollywood film Black Market attempts to break the Guinness World Records title for the largest attendance at a film screening. The team behind the new Nollywood movie is preparing to bring 50,000 people together to watch the same film at the same time, in an ambitious attempt to set a new world record. After months of planning, publicity, partnerships and registrations, the much-anticipated event is almost here. If everything goes according to plan and the final attendance is verified, Nollywood…

The Men Who Saw Tomorrow: Another Part of the Aoiri Obaigbo Series Professor Eyo Ita occupies an important but often overlooked place in the history of Nigerian nationalism, education and political development. His work in practical education, vocational training and minority politics offers an important Eastern link to the broader debate over how Nigeria could have built a more productive and economically independent society after colonial rule. If Samuel Ladoke Akintola represented one strand of Western Nigeria’s emphasis on agricultural modernisation and technical development, and Aminu Kano championed mass political participation and social reform in the North, Eyo Ita brought…

There are months when Lagos feels particularly alive, and November 2026 is shaping up to be one of them. For anyone who follows film, theatre, music, visual art and the wider creative scene, the first half of the month will be difficult to ignore; it is safe to submit that it is the season of festivals in the Centre of Excellence. November: One Lagos, Three Festivals The Lagos festival season kicks off with three major festivals scheduled within days of one another, creating an unusually concentrated run of cultural activity across the city. The Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) gets…

PART I: The Colonial Trap Decades after gaining nominal independence in 1960, Nigeria remains ensnared in a structural and developmental bottleneck. The contemporary Nigerian state exhibits all the symptoms of an arrested developmental trajectory: a chronic deficit in technological innovation, an education system that acts as a factory for certified but unemployable graduates, a deeply polarized electorate fractured along ethno-religious fault lines, and a predatory political class that relies on top-down, extractive patronage networks. This systemic stultification is often treated by mainstream historians and political scientists as an inevitability – the predictable consequence of an artificial colonial amalgamation. However, this…

The US/Israel vs Iran war and the latter’s closure of the straight of Homuz unleashed a fossil fuel shock that has hit economies far from the Middle East and the US. With the price of crude oil hit record highs and it is attendance effect on petrol and diesel, motorists are considering their options. The price of petrol has risen from the pre-February 28 price of about N800/l to N1250lt in most parts of Nigeria, Africa’s most populace nation. Fuel costs influence the choice of cars in Nigeria, with Nigeria drivers choosing between a 4-plug (16-cylinder) and 6-plu (24-cylinder) engines.…

The Department of Homeland Security of the United States of America, USA, has released the identifies of 10 Nigerian nationals include in the so-called ‘Worst of the Worst’ list in the country. The list included people who were convicted from various crimes ranging from child abuse, sex offence, identity theft, wire fraud and cruelty to animals, among others. The list obtained by Naija Daily News from the DHS website, showed that it targeted immigrants as part of President Donald Trump’s plan to reduce immigration and immigrant considered to be driving crime in the country. Nigerians On US ‘Worst of the…

The dust has hardly settled on the Osun governorship election, but one thing is already clear: the APC did not lose the election to Ademola Adeleke alone. It lost to a combination of its own mistakes, the mood of the electorate, Adeleke’s political strategy and a campaign that understood the emotional temperature of Osun better than its opponent. Adeleke polled 511,067 votes against Bola Oyebamiji’s 444,815, and both won 19 and 11 of the state’s 30 local government areas respectively. Senator Babafemi Ojudu, an APC chieftain, has offered perhaps the most brutally honest postmortem so far. His list of those…

Inah Canabarro Lucas, a Brazilian nun recognized as the world’s oldest living person, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 116. Known for surviving a fragile infancy, Lucas credited her extraordinary longevity to her faith in God and dedication to her religious order, according to longevity trackers LongeviQuest and the US-based Gerontological Research Group (GRG). With her passing, the title of the world’s oldest person now goes to 115-year-old Ethel Caterham of Surrey, England, according to both databases. Born on June 8, 1908, Lucas became the world’s oldest person after the January death of Japan’s Tomiko Itooka, who was…

By Deborah Nnamdi The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released an updated deportation list containing the names of 124 Nigerians, describing them as part of its “worst-of-the-worst” criminal offenders targeted for removal from the country. The list was published on the department’s official website on Wednesday as part of the US government’s ongoing immigration enforcement campaign. According to the DHS, the affected individuals were arrested by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and have been placed on what it described as its “worst-of-the-worst” criminal register. Although the department published the names and photographs of those listed,…