By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari “over the failure to promptly and thoroughly probe allegations of systemic mismanagement of security votes by state governors since 1999, and to ensure the prosecution of those suspected to be...
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By SAM ADZEGEH –Two major developments have, in the past five weeks or so, elicited much excitement in Agber, a settlement eastward on the outskirts of Makurdi, the Benue State capital. The resumption of construction work on a drainage canal, a federal government project being executed by the Federal...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will depart Abuja on Sunday for Arusha, Tanzania, to attend the formal opening of the 2022 Judicial Year of the African Court for Human and Peoples’ Rights. Osinbajo’s Spokesman Laolu Akande, in a statement, said the vice president had been designated as the guest speaker...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday adjusted the dates to conduct the 2023 general elections. INEC, thereafter, announced new dates for the polls, coming a day after President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law. It is the fourth time the Electoral Act was...
The People of Zamfara State had made adequate arrangements to host 1.5 million people from within and outside the country, coming to celebrate the 36th edition of Maulud of Shek Ibrahim Inyas, on Saturday, March 5. Chairman of the Organizing Committee, Khalifa Attahiru, who disclosed this in an interview...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Chairman, Presidential Think Tank on Defence and Security (PTTDS), retired Maj.-Gen. Abdulmalik Jibril, has described as fake a purported invitation to National Summit on protection of Nigeria’s critical infrastructure, monuments and business assets. Jibril, in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, said the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed concern over the abduction of some of its adhoc members of staff in Imo. The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Prof. Francis Ezeonu, while briefing newsmen in Owerri on Saturday, called on security agents to ensure safe return of...
The Anambra State Police Command has confirmed the violent attack at a funeral at Ebenebe community in Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra by suspected cultists on Saturday. A source told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the 34-year-old man whose funeral was holding at the time...
Some ad-hoc staff members of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have been abducted in Imo State. INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Imo, Francis Ezeonu, confirmed the abduction of the electoral officials on Saturday while briefing reporters in Owerri, the state capital. This comes as the electoral umpire...
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has said that he would soon officially declare his intention to contest the 2023 presidential race. Atiku stated this on Saturday, after a closed-door meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo at his residence, in Abeokuta, Ogun. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Atiku...
The Federal Government says it will undertake enumeration of empty houses nationwide as part of the measures to address housing deficit. The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola said this, while answering questions during a town hall meeting in Abuja on Saturday. According to him, the ministry...
The Nigerian Defence Academy on Saturday commissioned 295 cadets of the Short Service Course 47 into the Nigerian Army in Kaduna State. Minister of Defence, retired Maj.-Gen. Bashir Magashi, was the Reviewing Officer at the passing out paraded of the new officers. “As you graduate today, you will be...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Chairman of Akpabuyo Local Government Area (LGA) of Cross River State, Mr. Emmanuel Bassey, has expressed optimism that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) would emerge victorious in the Akpabuyo State Constituency byelection.. Mr. Bassey have the assurance shortly after casting his vote...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced new dates for the 2023 elections. This was announced by the National Chairman of the commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu at a news conference in Abuja, the Federal capital. According to him, the Presidential and National Assembly elections will now hold on...
Bola Tinubu a presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said he is applying to be the President of Nigeria and not for the job of a sprinter or a gravedigger. Tinubu stated this on Friday when he visited the Ataoja of Osogbo, Oba Jimoh Olanipekun, to seek...
Saturday’s Akure North/Akure South Federal Constituency by-election recorded large turnout of voters in most of the polling units, as electorate applauded INEC for early commencement of the exercise. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that election commenced at about 8:30 a.m. in most polling units visited in Oba-Ile...
There is heavy presence of security personnel in Jos North and Bassa Local Government Areas of Plateau for the ongoing by-election for Bassa/Jos North Federal Constituency. Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who visited some areas reports that a combined team of security personnel were stationed in...
Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, says the Federal Government will recommend the Sokoto State Modern Sports Arena for international sports events when completed. Dare, who was led to the Sports Arena by Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, stated this while speaking with journalists after inspecting...
Former militant leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, Asari Dokubo has threatened to kill Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Dokubo, while responding to reports that he was ‘beaten’ by some members of the group, threatened that the day such...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – On Friday, the media space was saturated with the news of the president’s assent to the long awaited 2022 Electoral Amendment Bill. The Electoral Amendment Bill of 2022 is an amendment to the 2010 Electoral Act. The bill is supposed to help Nigeria improve...