Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has corrected the impression that Nigeria’s elections are the most expensive and thus fuelling corruption in the country. Speaking at the sixth Biennial General Assembly of ECOWAS Network of Electoral ...
Read More »DSS parades fraudsters who impersonated Vice President Osinbanjo, Aisha Buhari in Edo
Two suspected Internet fraudsters, Amos Ehi Asuelimen (30) and Kelvin Godwin Ogashi (18), yesterday confessed that they created social media accounts with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Aisha Muhammadu Buhari’s names to defraud Nigerians. They disclosed this while being paraded ...
Read More »Tiv are true indigenes of Taraba, deserve same rights, privileges as others’
The Tiv Youth Organisation (TYO) has said Tiv people of Taraba State are bona fide indigenes who deserve protection, rights and privileges accorded other indigenes of the state. President General of TYO worldwide, Comrade Timothy Hembaor, who stated this yesterday in Makurdi, ...
Read More »EKSU students disrupt academic activities over EFCC’s arrest of colleagues
Students of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado-Ekiti yesterday protested against alleged harassment and arrest of their members by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The commission recently arrested over 40 youths, most of whom were students ...
Read More »Anti-graft agency arrests three for diverting fertilser in Zamfara, to assist AMCON recover N5tr loans
Operatives of the Sokoto Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested Chairman of Rice Farmers’ Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Gummi Council Chapter, Ibrahim Rijiya, Council Storekeeper, Aminu Musa and Abdullahi Bashir for allegedly diverting three ...
Read More »EFCC to arraign ex-INEC chairman, Maurice Iwu over alleged N1.2b fraud, cashier denies hiding money for Jang
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is to arraign a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Maurice Iwu, for alleged laundering of N1.2 billion. It was learnt that Iwu would be arraigned at a federal ...
Read More »Buhari receives APC working committee, assures on party supremacy, submits report on 2019 election spending
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured members of All Progressives Congress (APC’s) National Working Committee (NWC) that he will henceforth be more conscious of the party’s interests in taking major decisions. The President, who stated this when he received members of ...
Read More »Suspends five council chairmen in Kebbi, Ekiti chapter distances self from suspension of Fayose loyalist
The Kebbi State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended chairmen of five councils and nine others for anti-party activities. A statement issued by the state’s Chairman, Haruna Saidu in Birnin- Kebbi revealed that the leadership accused the ...
Read More »PDP raises concern over rising uncertainties, failing economy, insecurity
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lamented the rising insecurity, political uncertainties, failing economy, hardship and prevailing tension across the country. It, therefore, alerted that the nation was collapsing under the President Muhammadu Buhari ...
Read More »Protest wake up call for govt, Martins warns, it’s foreign agenda to destabilise Nigeria, Northern group insists
Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Alfred Adewale Martins, has urged the Federal Government to see the agitation as a wake-up call for it to better the lives of Nigerians and tame the pervasive insecurity in the land. In a ...
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