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There was palpable tension at the delegates’ screening and accreditation venue of the Bayelsa State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary as sporadic gunshots rented the air in Yenagoa. Journalists, guests and security operatives scamper for safety on the strength ...

The Coalition of Civil Society Groups has given the British and Irish governments 21 days to reverse the ruling of the United Kingdom Commercial Court awarding  $9.6 billion against Nigeria for an alleged botched gas processing contract with Irish firm, ...

Internet fraudsters sponsoring politicians for public offices, says EFCC The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said Internet fraudsters were sponsoring politicians into elective offices. The Port Harcourt Zonal Head of the commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, while giving updates on ...

The Federal Government is to develop appropriate technologies for credible elections and containment of violence. The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, disclosed this while addressing newsmen at his maiden press conference in Abuja. He expressed determination to ...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has inaugurated its special squad, christened “Agro Rangers Squad” to contain the rising clashes between farmers and herders in Enugu. The corps state commandant, Everestus Obiyo, said the team was part of ...

The Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State has upheld Governor Dave Umahi’s election as governor of the state during the March 9, 2019, gubernatorial poll. Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) candidate in the election, Chief Ajah Agha had taken ...

A social service group, Jesus Armi, has commended the announcement by governours of the South-East geopolitical zone, banning herdsmen and cattle movement in the states, saying it would check the alleged plot to foist emirs on Igboland. The group, however, ...

Counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Aloy Ejimakor, has challenged South-East governors to convince the Igbo that they were not part of the conspiracy in the 2017 Operation Python Dance in which many were killed. Ejimakor, who is also ...

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has charged the Federal Government to collaborate with oil-producing states to tackle economic sabotage being perpetrated by oil thieves. Blaming collusion between oil thieves and security agencies for huge oil losses in the country, he ...

In view of the security challenges confronting the country the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Extra Judicial Summary or Arbitrary Execution, Agnes Callamard, has said extra judicial killings, lack of accountability of security operatives and insincerity of the justice ...