May 8, 2026 – Nigeria Headlines

Story gist: Bola Tinubu, APC governors, and aspirants submitted nomination forms for party primaries. Shettima submitted Tinubu’s forms with the Speaker and over 10 governors present. A group endorsed Tinubu and Bago.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets absent, indicating no coverage or critical perspective provided. Center Punch focuses on group endorsement of Tinubu and Bago for ‘continuity,’ emphasizing stability. Right-leaning Daily Trust stresses presence of Speaker and over 10 governors at Shettima’s submission of Tinubu’s forms, highlighting elite backing and party solidarity.

Story gist: Tegbe dismissed reports claiming he promised to fix the national grid in three months. Nigeria’s Senate confirmed Tegbe and Enikanolaiye as ministers.

Bias summary: Left- and right-leaning outlets provided no coverage, leaving those perspectives absent. Center outlets like Channels Television focused on the Senate’s confirmation of Tegbe and Enikanolaiye as ministers, emphasizing the procedural event with neutral tone and omitting the controversy over Tegbe’s alleged national grid promise.

Story gist: Nigeria’s Senate passed an amendment bill to the Electoral Act. The bill aims to end conflicting court rulings in pre-election cases.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets like Tribune Online frame the bill positively as blocking ‘forum shopping,’ highlighting prevention of legal tactics. Center outlets like TheCable report neutrally on the Senate’s passage to resolve conflicting rulings, using the official title. Right-leaning coverage is absent, omitting any conservative perspective on electoral reforms.

Story gist: The Turaki-led PDP faction dared Nyesom Wike over his threat to seal their office.

Bias summary: No left- or right-leaning outlets covered the story, omitting their perspectives entirely. Center outlet Channels Television used a neutral, factual headline mirroring the event: ‘Turaki-Led PDP Dares Wike Over Threat To Seal Office,’ emphasizing PDP’s defiance and Wike’s threat without added tone, opinion, or selective omissions.

Story gist: Nigeria’s Senate reversed an amendment to its standing rules for electing presiding officers. The change followed a clash between Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Senator Adams Oshiomhole.

Bias summary: Left- and right-leaning outlets omitted coverage, absenting progressive critiques of power struggles or conservative defenses of Senate leadership. Center outlet BBC framed the story neutrally as a procedural reversal in the Senate rule book on eligibility for Senate President contests, emphasizing rules over the clash with plain, factual language.