In preparation for the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that it would be deploying an additional 209 voter enrolment machines to suit the machine imbalance in the five South-Eastern States, Lagos and Kano.
This is contained in a statement by Okoye, its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee on Friday.
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Okoye said that the commission received reports from states indicating an unprecedented surge in the number of citizens that wished to register as voters and the challenges they faced …
Controversial socialite who is currently embroilled in a tussle with the EFCC, Ismaila Mustapha, also known as Mompha has reportedly breached the terms of his bail by procuring a new passport and travelling to Dubai on 11 April.
The EFCC’s prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo has told the Ikeja High Court.
Oyedepo made the startling information known on Friday to Justice Mojisola Dada, in whose court, Mompha, with his company Ismalob Global Investment Limited, was standing trial.
The Instagram celebrity and businessman was arraigned by the Lagos Command of the Economic and …
The Nigerian Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo has reiterated that he remains committed to the dream of materializing a new Nigeria and he is doing this despite the outcome of the just-concluded All Progressives Congress (APC) Special Convention where he lost to Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said the vice president spoke during his visit to the campaign office of The Progressive Project (TPP), a coalition of support groups that backed him for the presidency.
The vice president also said that he would support Sen. Bola Tinubu, winner and flag bearer of the …
Popular Nobel Laureate, renowned playwright and social critic, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, where many worshippers were killed, as vendetta killing which was meant to send a message to the entire people of South-West.
Soyinka made his view known on Friday while paying a condolence visit to Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu over the terror attack last Sunday.
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He described the attack as a message and said it was targeted at the governor who has been showing leadership in terms of …
As the strike action by the umbrella body of the Nigerian Univesities trudges on into months, some students of Nigerian public universities have expressed their displeasures and frustration over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Some of the students in an interview with Newsmen in Port Harcourt on Friday appealed to the Federal Government to meet at least 50 per cent of ASUU demands to end the strike.
Greatness Nnamdi-Ikpo, a third-year student of the University of Port Harcourt, who is studying gas engineering, said that the ongoing strike was impacting negatively on the future
In response to the fresh court ruling on the agency’s operations, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has promised to abide by the new court ruling which would be bordering on the tenure of the six area council chairmen, which has been generating a lot of controversies lately.
Recall that the Court has overturned an earlier judgment issued on Friday, May 13, 2022, which would be granting a one-year extension to the outgoing Chairmen and Councilors of the 6 FCT Area Councils.
To this end, the administration has received the Certified True Copy of the revised judgment of the FCT …
In response to the nabbing and detainment of some of the suspects linked to the Owo Church massacre, the State Police in Ondo State have debunked the widespread rumours making rounds that the suspected terrorists, who attacked Owo Catholic Church, have actually been apprehended.
Rumours filtered into town on Thursday evening that the perpetrators of the terror attack were nabbed by the combined team of the Nigerian Army, Amotekun Corps and other security agents.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that on June 5, terrorists attacked St. Francis Catholic Church, Owaluwa Street, Owo, during church service.
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The Lagos State Police Command is reiterating its efforts in continuing the enforcement of the strong ban which was slammed on commercial motorcycles (Okada).
The Lagos government prohibited okada operations on highways and in six local government areas.
The affected LGAs are Apapa, Eti Osa, Ikeja, Lagos Island, Surulere, and Lagos Mainland.
On Saturday, Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin narrated how policemen were, Friday night, attacked in Ikorodu. The spokesman said the personnel were fought by hoodlums and riders who tried to stop them.
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Hundeyin noted that …
Every now and then, you will stumble on tweets, memes and posts about how much regret people feel when they recall that they solved binomials, simultaneous, quadratic, and other mathematical equations which they ignorantly assume have no practical application. A couple of years ago, I was one of them. I quibbled about how many of my Chemistry classes were a total waste of time.
In fact, it was one decade after I carried out my first titration under the supervision of my Chemistry teacher, that I discovered why there is so …
Suspected jihadists have killed no fewer than 10 police officers overnight in an attack in northern Burkina Faso near the border with Niger, security sources confirmed on Saturday.
‘An outlying gendarmerie post in Seytenga in Seno province was targeted by terrorists last night,’ a source said.
‘About 10 gendarmes (died), four others were wounded and there was major material damage,’ the source revealed, adding that the toll was provisional.
Another security source confirmed the attack, the latest in a string of bloody assaults in the landlocked Sahel state.
The source added that the security forces had routed the assailants in …
The UN human rights office has expressed serious concerns over the sentencing to death of a Moroccan man and two Britons by a Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine, insisting that such trials against prisoners of war amounted to a war crime.
The UN noted that the three were part of Ukraine’s armed forces, and therefore could not be described as mercenaries.
Brahim Saadoun was a student in Ukraine when the war broke out, his father told Moroccan website Madar21, adding, ‘he is not a mercenary’.
Africa Daily News, New York had gathered that the father had accused the …
China has announced that it will ‘not hesitate to start a war’ and ‘smash to smithereens’ any efforts aimed at Taiwan’s independence, its defence minister warned his US counterpart in the pair’s first face-to-face talks.
‘If anyone dares to split Taiwan from China, the Chinese army will definitely not hesitate to start a war no matter the cost,’ Defence Minister Wei Fenghe was quoted as saying during a meeting with Lloyd Austin on Friday.
‘The PLA [People’s Liberation Army] would have no choice but to fight … and crush any attempt of Taiwan independence, safeguarding national sovereignty
