A reporter named Steeve Mwanyo Iwewe, who works with the privately owned broadcaster Radio Television Sarah, was convicted on March 1 in the Mbandaka criminal court on a charge of insulting Équateur Governor Bobo Boloko Bolumbu.
According to a statement signed by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and distributed by APO Group noted that authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo should not oppose journalist Iwewe’s appeal of a year-long prison sentence for insulting a provincial governor, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Friday.
According to Souverain Pontife Ikolombe, the journalist’s lawyer, who spoke with CPJ. Iwewe was sentenced …
Rescue workers called off the search for survivors on Thursday, with the death toll at nine and the number of injured who were taken to hospital at 37.
But Lagos State health commissioner Jide Idris said the final toll was now higher.
“Twenty people were killed and 45 people were treated in
The head of media committee for Babajide Sanwo-Olu Campaign Organisation, Olusesan Daini has said Funke Phillips was on the committee during the campaign.
He told The Guardian on Friday that Phillips, accused by an ex-BBC Pidgin journalist Ruona Meyer of intellectual property theft, came to work for the campaign through a consultant.
Sanwo-Olu, Lagos State governor-elect, was the governorship candidate All Progressives Congress in 2019 elections.
Daini initially denied knowing “any Mrs Funke Phillips,”.
But he later said he met her in September 2018 and they worked together on the Sanwo-Olu campaign’s media committee when her Twitter profile was shared …
IMO State Governor Rochas Okorocha believes he was denied the Certificate of Return as the senator for the Imo West Senatorial District to cripple him politically ahead of 2023.
He also said that the “gang-up” against his preferred governorship candidate in the March 9 election, Uche Nwosu of the Action Alliance (AA), was part of the grand plot.
The governor accused the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Imo State of acting a script which he described as being cruel.
Speaking with reporters at the Imo Governor’s Lodge in the Asokoro Area of Abuja, Okorocha said he was sure that denying him …
All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday urged the Lagos State government to ensure adequate treatment for the survivors of the collapsed building.
Asiwaju Tinubu, who described the incident as tragic, also commiserated with the families .
The former Lagos governor called on Lagosians to donate blood to the survivors.
EXCEPT the court decides otherwise, Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha will not represent the Imo West Senatorial District when the Ninth National Assembly is inaugurated on June 8.
He was not among the senators presented with Certificates of Return (CoRs) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja yesterday.
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state has reacted to the rumour that he was involved in an accident.
The Governor who attributed the rumour to the opposition party members said, neither was he in coma, nor his driver dead as being speculated.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has made good it’s word by not recognizing the election of Rochas Okorocha into the Senate.
Imo state governor’s name was missing among the Senate-elect who received their certificate of returns at the International Conference Centre Thursday.
Okorocha was said to have won one of the senatorial seats in Imo state.
Consequently, INEC placed an embargo on his victory at the poll.
Details shortly…..
The Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC ) has urged Senators-elect to commence and conclude work on the review of the electoral legal framework early, ahead of the 2023 General Elections.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rescheduled election in at least 124 polling units in disputed areas in the state.
Head of Voter Education and Publicity in the state, Mr Wilfred Ifogah, listed the affected areas as Southern Ijaw, Ogbia and Brass local governments.
Ifogah noted that a stakeholders’ meeting will be held with all concerned parties before the election to acquaint …
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it will hold the House of Assembly supplementary election on March 23 in areas where election was declared inconclusive in February 23 in Bayelsa State.
The Head of INEC Voter Education and Publicity in the state, Mr Wilfred Ifogah, disclosed this in a statement issued on behalf of the state’s Resident Electoral Commissioner on Thursday in Yenagoa.
“The election will hold in five wards in Ogbia Local Government Area (LGA).
According …
Similarities between deadly Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air crashes has led to the grounding of all Boeing 737 Max planes in the US. The FAA said these similarities were found in data gleaned from satellite-based tracking.
So, the planes will stay out of US skies indefinitely, pending an examination of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302’s black boxes. That will take place in Paris, where the black boxes are expected to arrive today.
The US was the last country to ground the planes. US officials and Boeing had argued to keep the planes operating but changed course in light of this new …
