The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will partner with Nigeria’s anti-graft agencies to stop vote buying in the June 18, governorship election in Ekiti. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this on Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti during a meeting with traditional rulers in the state ahead of the election in the state. Yakubu […]
Pensioners in Abia State, on Tuesday, pleaded with the State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, not to let them die of hunger and neglect and pay their outstanding pensions. Trooping out into the streets in their large numbers, the pensioners pleaded with Ikpeazu to consider their plight after rendering meritorious services to the state, lamenting that […]
Mohammed Yohanna, north-east zonal chairman of the association of hunters/vigilantes, says members of his team have killed a Boko Haram commander and his deputy in Borno state. Yohanna, who said this on Tuesday in an interview with journalists, said there was a clash between insurgents and the hunters at Shaffa Taku village of Damboa […]
A 33-year-old man, whose name is yet-to be ascertained as at the time of filling in this report, was on Monday, murdered at a drinking joint along Jemeni Street, Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital. A reliable source, who spoke to our Correspondent, on grounds of anonymity, said the incident occured at about 7pm, adding […]
A former governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha, on Tuesday described as false the report that he had sued the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, and demanded N1bn damages over the invasion of his home in Abuja by the operatives of Economic and Finance Crimes Commission last week. The ex-governor also denied […]
One of the victims of the March 28 Kaduna train attack, Sadiq Ango Abdullahi, who is the son of the Chairman of Northern Elders Forum, Professor Ango Abdullahi, has appealed to the Federal Government to come to their rescue by yielding to the demands of their abductors before they will stayer to harm them. […]
Traders in Owerri, the Imo State capital, yesterday shunned the weekly Monday sit-at-home as they opened their stores for business. Though banks, schools and major commercial centres remained closed, as of noon businesses were going on unhindered along Nekede, Ihiagwa, Douglas and Wetheral roads. Buying and selling were also going on at the Relief […]
Frontline presidential aspirant Asiwaju Bola Tinubu last night appeared before the John Odigie-Oyegun-led All Progressives Congress (APC) screening panel. He answered questions bordering “on his upbringing, educational and professional background”, his campaign spokesman Mr. Bayo Onanuga said. Onanuga, in a statement, said: “He confidently told the panel why he is qualified to fly the […]
Rabiu Kwankwaso, former governor of Kano, says Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, could have become his running mate if the latter had joined the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP). Kwankwaso spoke on Monday in an interview on Channels Television. On May 27, Obi joined the Labour Party hours after announcing the […]
Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, yesterday, said that the hoodlums perpetrating the violent activities in Anambra State have not only made kidnapping and killing a lucrative criminal enterprise, but have also established camps in the forests where they practice idolatry. Governor Soludu disclosed that they are neither liberation movement activists nor any form […]
