More than 72 million Nigerians have been cleared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to vote in tomorrow’s presidential and National Assembly elections.
They represent 86.63 per cent of the 84 million registered would-be voters who collected Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu said yesterday at his daily news briefing.
A one million-man march for Jubril Al-Sudani, (Buhari’s Impostor) organised on Thursday by the Buhari Support Organisation (BSO) in Niger state witnessed a low turnout.
Over 91 million Nigerians are now living in extreme poverty, according to the report of World Poverty Clock, a Vienna, Austria-based data lab The report said at least three million Nigerians have slipped into extreme poverty between November 2018 and February 2019. According to the report, 91.16 million Nigerians were living below a dollar a day as of February 13, 2019.
Recall that in June 2018, the Brookings Institution projected that Nigeria had overtaken India as the poverty capital of the world, with 86.9 million extremely poor people. This was further confirmed by British Prime Minister, Theresa May, who said …
ABUJA—Barely 24 hours after he was remanded in the custody of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, secured bail from an Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama, yesterday.
The court, in a ruling by trial Justice Jude Okeke, granted the ex-SGF, who is facing trial over alleged complicity in a N272 million contract fraud, bail to the tune of N50 million with one surety in like sum. Justice Okeke handed the same bail condition to Lawal’s three alleged accomplices in the fraud, Hamidu David Lawal, Sulaiman Abubakar and Apeh …
Sixteen-Year-Old Akachukwu Anumudu of Apostolic Faith Secondary School, Anthony, Lagos, on Saturday, February 9, 2019, emerged winner of the first edition of the InterswitchSPAK National Science Competition held in Lagos – Nigeria.
He beat eight other contestants in an intense quiz session to win the grand prize of N7.5 million worth of tertiary education scholarship spread over five years, a laptop and a monthly stipend during the course of the scholarship.
The first runner-up was 16-year-old Henry Umunna of the Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja. Umunna won N4 million worth of scholarship spread over three years; while the second runner-up, 16-year-old …
ABUJA—Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, docked former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, before an Abuja High Court at Maitama, following his alleged complicity in ₦272 million contract fraud.
Lawal, whose arraignment came about two years after he was accused of illegally diverting a contract the Presidential Initiative for North-East, PINE, awarded for the removal of grasses in Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, camps, to his own company, pleaded not guilty to the 10-count criminal charge the EFCC preferred against him.
The driver of an armoured bullion van disappeared early on Monday along with an estimated one million euros, police sources said. “When they came back out, the van and the driver were gone,” one of the sources said.
The Governor of Kano state earlier promised to deliver five million votes to the Jubril, the impostor being paraded as Nigeria’s president, however facts gathered so far do not support the assertion made by the governor who was caught on camera taking bribes in US dollars for awarding contracts.
Daily Trust reports:
With only one week to the elections, political parties and candidates are all out to out-do each other for the ultimate prize. Part of the strategy is showcasing what they have done and making promises which are sometimes achievable and other times not.
For the 2019 elections, though …
