A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP chieftain, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has described Jubril Al-Sudani’s ( Muhammadu Buhari’s Impostor) declaration that life will be snuffed out of anyone who snatches ballot boxes during the February 23 presidential and National Assembly elections, as a call for violence.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has completed 100 percent the configuration of the Smart Cards Readers (SCRs), which will be used for voters’ accreditation for elections on Saturday and March 9, its chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said yesterday.
Yakubu, who stated this while updating the media and observers on the preparedness of the commission for the polls, said the deployment of voting materials to the 774 local government areas will be completed today.
The INEC boss added that the deployment began yesterday in 10 states.
He also acknowledged that there were report of missing materials in some states.
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Three armed gunmen Tuesday night, stormed the residence of the chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ward 11 Logara / Umuohiagu, Ngor Opkala Local Council, Ifeanyi Ozoemena, 49, killing him.
The deceased, sources closed to him, disclosed that the hoodlums swooped on the victim shortly he ended a meeting of the party members which he presided over in his capacity as the chairman of the ward. Some members of the party who attended the meeting convened by the deceased, said they were in shock since the news filtered into their ears as they arrived their homes.
Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr. Femi Falana, has disclosed that the actions of Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, has confirmed that the general election will be a ‘do-or -die affair.’
Responding to the governor’s “body bag” threat, Falana said the prosecution of the governor will commence as soon as his tenure is over.
He asked the international community that has promised to impose visa ban on those inciting violence to make an example of the governor.
A senior lawyer Mr Joe Agi SAN has challenged the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, to come up with evidence to support his claim that the $30,000 he (Agi) deposited in the account of the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria Justice Walter Onnoghen was a bribe to compromise the $3.18 billion Paris Club case.
Mr Agi in a statement made available to journalists in Abuja explained that though he convinced the suspended CJN to open the said domiciliary account with the Standard Chartered Bank ten years ago with initial deposit of $30,000, …
MILITARY officers with divided loyalty were yesterday ordered to resign.
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai said such officers should quit not later than tomorrow.
Gen. Buratai spoke as the Army renewed its pledge to constituted authority, stressing that it will not disobey orders.
Besides, it vowed to deal with “those who seek to undermine our democracy by interfering in our electoral process”.
He said incitement against constituted authority will not be tolerated.
Gen. Buratai, at a meeting with General Officers Commanding (GOCs), Principal Staff Officers (PSOs) and selected Commanders at the Army Headquarters in Abuja, cautioned politicians …
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We’ve had so many blockbuster stories during President Trump’s term, it’s easy to get kind of numb to them. But we shouldn’t. Some allegations against this President are truly extraordinary. Like this: The ex-acting FBI director thinks it’s possible the President of the United States is a Russian asset.
Suspected Fulani herdsmen in the early hours of Wednesday attacked Ebete, Usha ward in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State and killed no fewer than 17 persons.
The unprovoked attack on Agatu people started at around I am when people were asleep.
An eyewitness to the attack, Daddy Seni, whose father was among those killed alongside his siblings, said he received a call from his father while on a fishing trip asking him to come back home as his father said he had been shot by Fulani herdsmen.
He said on getting back to where his father was, he …
Few days to the rescheduled Presidential and National Assembly elections, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed his support to Jubri Al-Sudani’s (Muhammadu Buhari’s Impostor) directive on any person involved in ballot box snatching during the Saturday, February 23rd, polls.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday stated that only an ‘act of God’ can stop the conduct of the rescheduled Presidential and National Assembly election slated for this Saturday.
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, stated this in Abuja while addressing a cross section of the diplomatic community and international election monitoring groups in Nigeria, for the 2019 general election.
