A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has blocked former Vice President Atiku Abubakar from contesting the 2027 presidential election, after cancelling the leadership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) under David Mark, according to Ripples Nigeria. Atiku was the presidential flagbearer of the ADC. However, the court cancelled the process that produced him as the party’s candidate for next year’s election. Delivering judgment on Thursday, Justice Peter Lifu also cancelled the emergence of former Senate President David Mark, former Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola, and other persons as national officers of the party. The judge further cancelled the nomination of all ADC candidates for the 2027 general elections, ruling that they came out of an illegal and unlawful leadership. The judgment followed a case filed by an aggrieved Deputy National Chairman of the ADC, Nafiu Bala Gombe. Justice Lifu agreed with Gombe’s argument that Mark and Aregbesola became party leaders through an...

T he 41-year-old forward revealed on Thursday that he is stepping away from national-team football, ending a run that started back in August 2003. He delivered the message himself in a clip uploaded to his Instagram page . In that clip, Ronaldo explained that he will return Portugal’s iconic No. 7 jersey following the November international window. Speaking directly to his fellow countrymen, he said the moment to release the shirt had arrived. He stressed that he never viewed the number as his personal property. For 23 years, he said, he had enjoyed the honour, and carried the duty, of pulling it on, protecting it, and taking it into arenas across the globe. Now, he believes, it is time for the next generation to take it. Ronaldo admitted the call was tough. He described it as the kind of choice that cannot be settled by logic alone, because the heart has a say too. As he reviewed over 20 years in a Portugal shirt, he said what stays with him most is not the scorelines, the strikes, th...