Following the opposition of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) ban on electioneering during the one week extension of poll, the commission will meet today to review the restriction. INEC, according to its national chairman’s Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, would…
To ensure the integrity of the rescheduled presidential and parliamentary elections, the electoral commission, INEC, has retrieved sensitive materials already distributed in most states of the federation. The materials were distributed last week in preparation for the February 16 election. However, hours before the commencement of the elections, the INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, announced a…
The Kano Police Command has confirmed the arrest of two suspects found with 16 bags of what the police said were specimen ballot papers in the state. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Wakili Mohammed, confirmed this to Channels Television on Friday. He said the suspects were apprehended on Wednesday by some officers…
The vice presidential candidate of Grassroots Democratic Party of Nigeria (GDPN), Alhaji Ibrahim Modibbo has dumped his presidential candidate and party for president Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Declaring his total support for Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja, Modibbo said Buhari and his party’s performance within the three and half years proved…
From Taiwo Oluwadare, Ibadan The people of Alubarika and Araromi communities in Odinjo in Ibadan South East, Oyo State was on Friday, February 8, 2019 were in jubilant mood as a candidate contesting for Federal House of Representatives, Ibadan North East/South East in February 16 election, under Zenith Labour Party, Semih Alao constructed a pedestrian…
From Taiwo Oluwadare, Ibadan The wife of Oyo State, Mr. Florence Ajimobi on Thursday empowers not fewer than one thousand women artisans in the state to commemorates Valentine’s day in Ibadan, the state capital. The women artisans were empowered with tailoring machine, generating set, hairdressing machines, grinding machines and other working tools for women in…
The Nigeria Customs Service has reacted to a video going viral on killing by a custom officer during anti-smuggling operation with conflicting narratives. DC Joseph Attah, Public Relations Officer in a swift response stated that “it is painful and totally unnecessary to loose life in anti-smuggling operations” He added that “ today at Shagamu interchange…
•calls on journalists in Nigeria to wear black •Hussein-Suale. The Publisher of Nigeria’s frontline investigative newspaper, Satellite Times, has condemned in strong terms the assassination in Ghana of investigative journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale. Ahmed was killed in a hail of bullets from gunmen on motorbike who aimed at his chest and neck, eventually speeding off without…
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