More voters testify to Police helicopter aiding ballot snatching

…Allegedly dispersing voters with bullets, teargas There are indications that the alleged use of Police helicopter in last Saturday’s governorship and senatorial elections in Kogi state may afterall not be…

Kogi: INEC releases list of 30 missing ad-hoc staff, observes a minute silence for slain staff

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the list of 30 ad-hoc staff of the Commission who took part in Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi state. The affected staff…

CUPP to Kogi Electorate: Defend your votes, finish what you started

The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has in an early evening statement marked ‘urgent’  called on voters in Kogi state to rise and protect their votes and not to…

Bayelsa Guber: Residents worry over activities of the Nigerian Army

s Not a few residents of Bayelsa state have expressed concern over the alleged unprofessional conduct of the men of the Nigerian Army in the ongoing Bayelsa state governorship election.…

Gov. Dickson to INEC: Bayelsa governorship poll, a charade

…Accuse Army, Police of sabotaging democracy Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa state has called for the cancellation of the Bayelsa state governorship election alleging that there were rampant incidents of…

Kogi: Bello, APC forcing INEC officials to sign Pre-filled result sheets, says PDP

Rampant acts of electoral fraud may be taking place in the ongoing Kogi governorship election as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alerted the public and the Independent National Electoral…

We’re monitoring Bayelsa, Kogi governorship elections – ICPC

Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says its operatives will be on ground to monitor the governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa States today. The commission says…

Priest burns to death in early morning inferno

A Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Edmond Nwagbara has been burnt to death in a blaze that consumed his living quarters in the early hours of Saturday, the 16th of November,…

Edo, Lagos, Ogun, four other states get new Police Commissioners

Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has directed the deployment of new Commissioners of Police (CPs) to Edo, Lagos, Ogun, and Cross River states. Also affected in the new…

Arms stockpiling, influx of thugs may mar Bayelsa guber poll – Group

A group, YIAGA Africa has listed arms stockpiling, influx of thugs as some of the early warning signs of trouble ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in Bayelsa State. These, it…

Imo: Rogue policemen on rampage, harassing, extorting money from travelers

Ogbaku area of the Owerri-Onitsha express way has become an axis of evil occasioned by the alleged questionable activities of Nigerian policemen stationed there. Beyond the brazen extortion that goes…

Attack on Protesters: DSS embarrassing Nigeria, says Soyinka

Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s Nobel Laureate, says the Department of State Services (DSS) is increasingly becoming a fascist organization and an embarrassment to Nigeria. The DSS has refused to comply with…

For officiating wedding, SARS arrests Sharia Court judge

Officials of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Kaduna State, have reportedly arrested a Sharia Court judge, Murtala Nasir, for officiating a wedding. Also arrested along with the judge were a…

Atiku’s in-law instructed me to take $140,000 to Obasanjo – Witness

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday opened its case against Abdullahi Babalele, son-in-law of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, accused of laundering $140,000 in the build-up to the 2019…