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INEC had come under fire over its inability to upload results immediately on its result viewing portal during the presidential and National Assembly elections held on 25 February. The electoral commission, INEC, deliberately withheld the real-time upload of presidential election results from polling units, information minister Lai Mohammed said, according to a report by the government-owned News Agency of Nigeria. Mr …

• Adebanjo: Ajayi remains suspended, has no right to issue statement for Afenifere• Ndigbo not part of any conspiracy, plans to attend Tinubu’s swearing-in• Decide presidential petitions before May 29, Agbakoba tells tribunal• Natives stage peaceful march, vows to resist moves to truncate democratic rule After one week of what could be referred to as dust storm, leading groups from …

Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has said the Nigeria presidency should go to the southeast region to heal from the wounds of the civil war. The Nigerian civil war lasted for three years between 1967 and 1970 after the southeast declared the independence of Biafra. More than one million died in the war according to an estimate. More than fifty …

A former presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, Nicolas Felix, on Tuesday said the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will appoint only talented people into his cabinet after taking the oath of office on May 29. Felix, who spoke in an interview on Arise Television on Tuesday, noted that Tinubu’s appointment would be based on competency and not party …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON The Nigeria Police have announced a whooping N5million reward for anyone with information that would lead to the arrest of an alleged Cyber bully, Eboni Rachael Osazee Iyonmana. Edo State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Chidi Nwabuzor revealed this while briefing journalists in Benin City, today. SP  Nwabuzor further explained that the Nigeria Police Force and Nigeria …

Nigeria Police Service Commission Chairman (PSC), Dr Solomon Arase and Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Usman Baba, have expressed commitment to promote harmonious working relationship between the commission and police force. This commitment was made when the IGP paid a courtesy call on the PSC chairman on Monday in Abuja, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. Arase, while …

The Federal Government says it has concluded plans to launch the Digital Postcode system in Nigeria in June 2023. It said the digitised Postcode would enhance the seamless issuance of driver’s licenses, National Identity Management number, international passport, banking services and other address verification services. The Postmaster General of the Federation/CEO, NIPOST, Adeyemi Sunday Adepoju disclosed this at the end …

President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to 16 bills that have altered some provisions of the 1999 Constitution, which has become further amended. This is the fifth in a series of piecemeal efforts at curing the varied ills of this supreme body of national legislation since the Fourth Republic began over two decades ago. Calls for it to be completely jettisoned …

The International Criminal Court (ICC) recently issued arrest warrants against Russian President, Vladimir Putin and a member of Putin’s government, Children’s Rights commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, who is the official at the centre of the alleged unlawful deportation of thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia. This is the first warrant issued by ICC for crimes committed in Russia-Ukraine war and a rare case issued …

Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Faruk Yahaya, has warned that neither IPOB, ESN nor any other group, groups or individuals should threaten the integrity of the nation as enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He noted that “the peaceful conduct of the 2023 general elections across the country, including in the South-East, despite the sense …