By Omonu Nelson A POLITICAL earthquake is shaking up the road to 2027: a powerful coalition of federal agency heads has officially formed to spearhead President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election campaign. This unprecedented alignment of institutional heads represents the most strategic and formidable innovation yet ahead of the next general elec...
By JKNewsMedia Introduction Public engagement around African Democratic Congress presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar’s newly launched civic engagement portal has been marked by questions over its purpose, with analysis of 47 responses showing that 72.34 per cent of respondents negotiated its essence while 27.65 per cent expressed acceptance...
By Steve Osuji Conversation With General X UPON READING this column last week, an old acquaintance, a retired general of the Nigerian Army reached out to me. Let’s call him General X. We had known since 2004 when I was editing The NEW AGE newspaper, and he was still in service. My weekly column in […]
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter PRESIDENT BOLA Tinubu is set to personally lead All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign rallies in 12 states ahead of the 2027 general election, with the proposed itinerary focusing heavily on states where he lost to opposition candidates in 2023. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the proposed ...
By JKNewsMedia Introduction: What does it take for the public to align emotionally with campaign messages? In this tracking, we examined the attitudinal dispositions of followers of media aides and core supporters of presidential candidates on social media platforms. Our analysis shows that accepting messages is associated with positive emoti...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter THE INDEPENDENT National Electoral Commission (INEC) has explained that the omission of some candidates from the final list for the 2027 governorship election followed a Supreme Court judgment requiring political parties to comply with statutory rules on membership registers before conducting valid prim...
By Olukorede Yishau THERE IS a new report that troubles me. Its findings about Nigeria, where trust in science can influence whether a parent vaccinates a child, whether a patient follows a doctor’s advice and whether a community accepts a public health intervention that could save lives, are not cheering. The latest findings of the […...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia PREVENTING ELECTION material delays and ensuring polling units open on time have emerged as key priorities for the 2027 General Election, as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) inaugurated a multi-agency logistics committee and launched a nationwide campaign against voter apathy, vote buying and...
By JKNewsMedia Introduction: It’s really a wonder how Nigerians largely accept campaign messages from presidential candidates’ aides and supporters but show greater opposition and negotiation when discussing opposition parties, insecurity and politics, a new analysis has found. WHEN MEDIA aides and core supporters of presidential candida...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter BROAD POLITICAL support for President Bola Tinubu at the inauguration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has been described by Anambra State Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo as an unusual level of consensus in Nigeria’s democratic history. Reporting on the event, JKNews...
