Atiku Abubakar is campaigning under the African Democratic Congress, while Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso are on the Nigeria Democratic Congress ticket. Over the weekend, Kwankwaso called on Atiku to step aside for Obi, invoking the argument that southern Nigeria should complete its turn in the informal rotation of the presidency.
Parliament will rescind the passage of the anti-LGBTQ bill to correct errors in its penalty provisions, Majority Leader James Agalga has disclosed. Mr Agalga said Parliament had identified the defects and was responsible for fixing them before transmission.
The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, has expressed confidence that President Bola Tinubu will win re-election in 2027, saying his administration’s achievements will secure him a second term. Alausa, recently appointed Director of Education Sector Mobilisation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, said opposition parties lacked a clear agenda for Nigerians.
State leaders can hold significant sway over election administration, with implications for the 2028 presidential race.
Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms has made history after winning Georgia’s gubernatorial election, becoming the first Black woman elected governor of a US state. Bottoms, a former mayor of Atlanta, defeated Republican businessman Rick Jackson in Tuesday’s election, according to projections by US media, securing a landmark victory for Democrats in one of the country’s most closely contested political battlegrounds.
Former United States President Barack Obama has reacted to the Democratic Party’s sweeping victory in the midterm elections, saying Americans have called for unity and leaders capable of providing practical solutions to the country’s challenges. The Democrats’ midterm victory is expected to give the party greater control over the legislative process, including congressional investigations, spending negotiations and scrutiny of President Donald Trump’s administration.
Andhra Pradesh Congress chief president Y.S. Sharmila accuses the ruling alliance of misusing official machinery and the police to suppress the Opposition
Move deals blow to Netanyahu's efforts to discredit the elections, in which he and his allies lost their majority.
Democrat James Talarico wins the Texas Senate race in a historic midterm upset.
Opposition Democrats stormed back to power in Congress and governors’ mansions across the United States of America in Tuesday’s midterm elections, a stunning repudiation of President Donald Trump’s political agenda. Democratic US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and his wife, Dr. Sarah Jukaku, embrace onstage after he declared victory during a midterm election night party at The Department at Hudson’s in Detroit, Michigan, early on November 4, 2026.
Democrats are preparing a legislative offensive against US President Donald Trump after their sweeping midterm victory handed them control of both chambers of Congress and the power to challenge his policies, investigate his administration and block his nominees. Likely subjects include the Trump family’s business and cryptocurrency dealings, government contracts involving billionaire Elon Musk, cuts to federal agencies, immigration enforcement and the conduct of the Iran war.
Republicans suffered historic losses, Democrats won control of Congress – and Trump backed away from losing candidates Democrats swept key US midterm races on Tuesday evening, flipping long-held Republican seats and securing a majority in Congress after voters rebuked Donald Trump’s policies at the ballot box. In an unexpected performance, Democrats defeated incumbent Republicans candidates for historically conservative Senate seats in Iowa, Kansas, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas.
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In today’s Nigerian newspapers review programme, Today in the News, Vanguard leads with President Bola Tinubu getting ready to receive the State Police Bill from the National Assembly for assent after 28 state houses of assembly approved it. Vanguard also reports that former Vice President and African Democratic Congress presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has locked horns with the Department of State Services (DSS) over claims that the agency plans to disrupt the ADC’s rally in Sokoto.
With control of Congress, Democrats can challenge Trump’s agenda through subpoenas, confirmation votes.
Amendment 81 would have required law enforcement to notify federal agents if people accused of violent crimes were not lawfully present in US Colorado voters have spurned a conservative group’s effort to force police and prosecutors to aid the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. Amendment 81, which failed to receive 55% of the vote on Tuesday, would have required Colorado’s law enforcement agents to notify federal immigration authorities if individuals accused of violent crime were not lawfully present in the US or if their legal status was undetermined.
'How many sins will BJP commit in Ram's name?': Congress had slammed BJP over reported attendance fraud within VB-G RAM G scheme, saying that "attacking" the rights of the poor while invoking the name of Lord Shri Ram was its true modus operandi
Hilton, who was endorsed by President Trump, faced an uphill battle as a Republican in the widely liberal state.
A case brought by a Queensland man against the SA government's plans for a MotoGP circuit in Adelaide has been discontinued.
Police and prosecutors open investigation into death of the 55-year-old Bavarian state deputy leader A prominent German politician was found dead in a Berlin hotel on Wednesday, police said, adding they had launched an investigation. The cause of death of Hubert Aiwanger, 55, who was deputy leader of southern Bavaria state, was not immediately clear.
Democrats flipped a Senate seat and recaptured the governor’s mansion in Ohio.
US President Donald Trump had rare praise for rival Democrats on Tuesday, saying they had done a “good job” after they routed his Republican Party in the midterm elections. Supporters of Democratic US Senate candidate James Talarico cheer after he won the Texas race during a midterm election night watch party at the Long Center for the Performing Arts in Austin, Texas, on November 3, 2026.
All 435 seats in the lower chamber of Congress were on the ballot in Tuesday's midterm race.
By Musa Ubandawaki, Sokoto Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), is expected to visit Sokoto on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, to flag off the party’s presidential campaign activities in the state ahead of the 2027 general elections. The Coordinator of the Sokoto State ADC Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Ibrahim Lamido, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists.
His economic plans are incoherent, the Iran war is making inflation worse, and his complicity with Israel’s crimes in Gaza and other acts of lawlessness, from the extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean to the kidnapping of Maduro, have been combined with a continuing coarsening of American culture. The Case for Radical Politics in An Era of Extreme Inequalities Osita Nwanevu is a Guardian US columnist Jill Filipovic is an American author Continue reading...