BREAKING: Pick Amaechi As Running Mate—Eze To Atiku; Man Died Retrieving Phone From Well
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2027: Pick Amaechi as running mate, ADC Chieftain urges Atiku
A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has urged the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to consider former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, as his running mate in the 2027 general election.
Eze, said Amaechi’s political experience and role in past electoral victories make him a strong asset for the vice-presidential slot.
“You need Amaechi now, because the way he managed the campaign that ousted a sitting President (Goodluck Jonathan), proves that he is not a figure any serious-minded fellow in pursuit of the exalted office of the President of this country can ignore,” he said.
He argued that Amaechi’s leadership credentials, political structure and support base position him as a suitable choice for the role.
Man dies while retrieving phone from well in Kano
A 45-year-old man, Yusuf Usman, has died after entering a well converted into a refuse pit in Kwa Town, Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area of Kano State, in an attempt to retrieve a mobile phone.
The incident, which occurred on Wednesday, was confirmed in a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer of the Kano State Fire Service, Saminu Abdullahi.
According to the statement, the Fire Service received a distress call at about 11:13 a.m. from one of its staff members, Kabiru Tata, reporting the incident.
The statement, said firefighters from the state headquarters, were immediately deployed to the scene.
Lack of integrity behind Nigeria’s challenges — ICPC chair
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Musa Aliyu, has said the lack of integrity and failure to uphold ethical standards remain at the heart of Nigeria’s governance and developmental challenges.
Aliyu, made the assertion on Wednesday, while delivering his opening address at the International Conference on Anti-Corruption, Transparency and Integrity in Governance, organised by the Anti-Corruption Academy of Nigeria, the training arm of the ICPC, in Keffi, Nasarawa State.
Speaking on the theme, “Strengthening Integrity Systems for Sustainable Development and Public Trust in Nigeria’, the ICPC Chairman, said the country must urgently reinforce ethical compliance across all sectors to achieve meaningful progress.
“It is an acknowledged fact, that lack of integrity and failure in ethical compliance is at the centre of most of the challenges our country is facing today,” he said.
Oyo lawmakers reject negotiations with kidnappers, demand victims’ rescue
The Oyo State House of Assembly, on Wednesday, rejected suggestions that the state government should negotiate with bandits, who abducted teachers and students during the coordinated attack on Ahoro-Esiele in Oriire Local Government Area of the state on Friday, May 15, 2026.
It called for intensified rescue operations to secure the release of victims abducted, during the attack on communities in the area.
The resolution, followed a motion of urgent public importance moved by the lawmaker representing Oriire State Constituency, Johnson Ogundele, during plenary shortly after the House resumed from the Eid-el-Kabir (Sallah) recess.
The motion, titled “Urgent Need for the Executive Arm of Government Through Its Security Architecture to Proactively Nip in the Bud the Spike and Recurring Bandit Attacks on Oriire Communities, Since the Beginning of 2026 and to Intensify Rescue and Manhunt Operations to Secure the Release of the Abductees of the Recent Attack on Esinele, Oyo and Yawota Communities,” highlighted growing insecurity in parts of the local government area.
