Beyond the Headlines
The Yoruba Appraisal Forum has postponed its `Anti Secession Agitations’ rally expected to hold at Gani Fawehinmi Park, Lagos State on Friday. The organisers said the rally was postponed after police intervention and a need to curb COVID-19 spread. The Commissioner of Police (CP) in Lagos State, Mr Hakeem Odumosun, in a statement after meeting […]
Abubakar Bello, governor of Niger state, has signed a bill prescribing death by hanging for cattle rustlers, bandits, kidnappers and their informants into law. The Niger house of assembly passed the bill on July 1. Bello said the kidnapping and cattle rustling special provisions law of 2016 was amended to provide for the punishment of […]
….12 APGA members of the House of Assembly led by Chief Whip Eze hail INEC’s decision, pledge to support Umeoji ….UNIZIK Dean and renowned female professor, Lillian Orogbu, emerges APGA deputy governorship candidate to Chuma Umeoji Ibe Pascal Arogorn, Awka Weeks of political manoeuvring within the rank of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in […]
Security operatives have cordoned off the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota, Lagos over a planned rally. The Nation observed scores of armed security men, including Police Officers, RRS operatives, Lagos State Task Force and Lagos State Neighborhood Security Watch (LNSC) were stationed at strategic points to prevent any rally. Police water cannon, vans, black maria […]
A High Court in Abeokuta, on Friday sentenced a 44-year-old man, Tosin Shodunke to death by hanging for armed robbery. Shodunke had pleaded not guilty to the two counts of conspiracy and armed robbery. Delivering judgment, Justice Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun, held that the court was convinced beyond reasonable doubt that the convict was guilty as charged. […]
Lawmakers from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have staged a walk-out over clause 52 of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. They insist that the clause was never carried. They also insist that they will disrupt the proceedings when the House resumes from recess. The new amendment provides that INEC may consider electronic transmission so […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said it cannot guarantee total safety for the electronic transmission of results, explaining that no system is completely free from hackers. Federal lawmakers had a rowdy session as debates over the inclusion of electronic transmission of results in the Electoral Act Amendment took centre stage in the chambers on […]
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has asked broadcast stations in Nigeria not to report the details of attacks by bandits and insurgents. In a letter dated July 7 and signed by Francisca Aiyetan, director of broadcast monitoring, the NBC directed radio and television stations not to “glamourise the nefarious activities of insurgents, bandits and kidnappers […]
….PDP also missing Ibe Pascal Arogorn The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has dropped the name of ex-CBN governor and All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) factional candidate for the Anambra governorship poll, Professor Chukwuma Soludo from the list of cleared candidates for the November 6 Anambra governorship election, Crimefacts.news can report. The Commission, in a […]
Governor Aminu Tambuwal said it is unconstitutional for the Senate to subject INEC’s power to conduct elections to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Tambuwal, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives and lawyer, said INEC constitutional power could not be shared with any institution. “For the avoidance of doubt, S.78 of the Constitution provides […]
