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Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu has urged the National Assembly to speed up action in amending the nation’s electoral act to avoid robbery at collation centres. Yakubu, who spoke at the 2019 General Elections Review ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday admitted that the November 16, 2019 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa would be challenging due to the history of political violence in the two states. INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Voter Education ...

Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Jega, has sought review of youth empowerment policies to check the increasing criminality in the country. Besides, he wants Nigerians to pressurise government in engaging them productively. Jega, who spoke ...

Some suspected killers of Yusuf Adabenege Onivehu, an aide to Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello, who were paraded in Okene have alleged that former representative of Kogi Central Senatorial District, Ahmed Ogembe sponsored them for the dastardly act. Kogi State ...

Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has charged officers to put in their best in curbing fraud associated with digital banking. Magu gave the charge at the training for officers on digital banking operations ...

A Southern and Middle Belt Coalition under the auspices of Citizens Against Tyranny (CAT), has threatened to ensure that any form of intimidation or violence against Southern Nigerian peoples in the North would be met with equal resistance. While calling ...

Katsina State Governor Aminu Bello Masari has charged security agencies to ensure protection and safety of corps members posted to the state on compulsory one-year service. He also called on council area heads and traditional rulers to collaborate with security ...

The Katsina State Police Command has confirmed the death of six persons who were killed following attacks by bandits on Dan Sabau, Makera and Pawwa villages in Kankara Local Government Area at the weekend. There were, however, reports that the ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament has expressed concern over the United Nations High Commission on Refugees’ report that the sub-region constitutes 40 per cent of the world’s 70 million refugees and displaced persons.   It blamed ...

Immediate past Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, has said the organisation’s financial books were clean and open to scrutiny. Speaking at a valedictory session in his honour in Abuja, he stated that ...