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[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- A longstanding dispute between a senior researcher at the Central Agricultural Research Institute (CARI) and the institution's management has escalated after Dr. Nykoi Jomah accused CARI's leadership of ignoring directives issued by the Office of the Ombudsman, unlawfully dismissing him from his position, and withholding five months of his salary.

[Liberian Observer] The House of Representatives has passed President Joseph Nyuma Boakai's proposed legislation seeking to amend Chapter 50(B) of Title 12 of the Executive Law of Liberia, paving the way for broader reforms at the Liberia Agency for Community Empowerment (LACE).

[Liberian Observer] Vice President Jeremiah Kpan Koung has assured residents of Yarwin-Mehnsonnoh District that the Boakai administration has not forgotten them, pledging a series of development interventions aimed at improving the lives of citizens in one of Liberia's most remote and underserved communities.

[Vanguard] Abuja -- Former Vice President and Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has raised the alarm over what he described as a fresh and coordinated attempt by elements within the ruling establishment to deploy political and legal machinations to keep his party off the ballot ahead of the 2027 general election.

[Nyasa Times] President Peter Mutharika's decision to dispatch Second Vice-President Enoch Chihana to yet another high-level Sadc engagement has not gone unnoticed in Lilongwe. For the second time in a week, Chihana -- leader of the Alliance for Democracy and long-time political ally of Mutharika -- has been handed a regional brief that would, in more conventional times, fall to the First Vice-President, Jane Ansah.

[Leadership] The humanitarian organisation operating under the auspices of The Advertisement Group (TAG) Nigeria Limited has reaffirmed its commitment to creating over five million jobs for Nigerians within five years.

[Leadership] The National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Samuel Anyanwu has declared that it is his turn to govern Imo State, after his contemporaries such as Dr. Ikedi Ohakim, Chief Emeka Ihedioha and Dr. Hope Uzodimma have governed the state.

[Leadership] Former Minister of Education and founder of Fix Politics Nigeria, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, has tacitly thrown her weight behind Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, SAN, in the race for President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).

[Leadership] Nigeria's former President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has arrived in Lake Como, Italy, to join global leaders, policymakers, scholars, and strategic thinkers at an international experts workshop where he is expected to make a strong case for Africa to move beyond aid dependency and embrace strategic partnerships anchored on trade, investment, industrialisation, stronger institutions, domestic resource mobilisation, and African agency.

[Vanguard] National Leader of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Senator Henry Seriake Dickson, has said the party remains united and committed to defending multi-party democracy despite the recent Federal High Court ruling affecting the party.

[Vanguard] ABUJA -- The Senate has defended the passage of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Alteration) (State Police) Bill, 2026, describing it as a product of national consensus rather than political cynicism.

[This Day] A N100 million defamation judgment against the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has escalated into a major battle over freedom of expression and civic activism in Nigeria, drawing sharp reactions from more than 50 civil society organisations, Amnesty International, senior lawyers and human rights advocates. As SERAP heads to the Court of Appeal, the case is increasingly being viewed as a defining test of the balance between reputational rights, public interest advocacy and the

[This Day] Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar has returned to Nigeria after a business trip outside the country.

[Nyasa Times] In the midst of the uncertainty facing Malawians caught up in xenophobic violence in South Africa, Dr McBride Nkhalamba's decision to contribute K5 million has emerged as one of the steadier, more reassuring gestures in a week marked by fear and displacement.