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The number of fresh voters registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission in the ongoing registration currently stands at 10,487,972, the commission said on Monday. The commission gave the figure in its update for Week 11 in the Fourth Quarter sent to Journalists in Abuja. According to the short document, the number of completed registration stood at 8,631,696 (online – …

Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, have sued the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and others over the controversy surrounding David Ukpo’s real age. Others mentioned in the suit are the Comptroller General (C-G), Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS); Stanbic-IBTC Bank; United Bank of Africa (UBA) and Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc. In an originating summon marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/984/2022, filed …

Opposition Peoples Democratic Party on Monday expressed concern over former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s comment that he made mistake when he picked his Vice President in 1999. The former President had on Saturday said he made a mistake in the choice of his number two ahead of the 1999 presidential election. Obasanjo became democratically elected President in 1999 while the current …

…Calls for calm, assures assailants will be brought to book Acting Governor of Edo State, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu, has condemned the killing of a Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Christopher Odia, in Ikabigbo, Etsako West Local Government Area of the State. Shaibu, who led other government functionaries and heads of security agencies in the state, on Monday, to Ikabigbo, …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Nigeria – At least four persons, including two suspected kidnappers died when gunmen abducted and killed the parish priest of St Michael Catholic church, Rev. Fr Christopher Odia last Sunday in lkhabigbo, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo state. According to reports, the Rev Father was in his rectory and about to go out …

President Muhammadu Buhari will swear in Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) on Monday. Buhari’s digital media aide Bashir Amhad disclosed this in a tweet. Justice Ariwoola will replace Justice Tanko Mohammed who resigned from his position as CJN on Monday. He was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court in 2011. He was a …

Weeks after Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Lagos State governor emerged as presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), intrigues and infightings within the party has stalled efforts to select his substantive running mate. Tinubu had chosen a placeholder, Kabiru Masari, in order to beat the deadline set by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). However, the choice of a substantive …

Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, has said the era when ethnic nationalities in three Warri councils clashed over differences is over, stressing that he would do everything to promote peace and inter ethnic harmony in Delta State. The Olu spoke during the third edition of Aghofe Ghigho cultural ceremony to usher in Omadino community as new palace keepers. Every …

The recent off-season Ekiti State governorship election was blighted by vote buying, among other malpractices. Vote buying has become an obscene phenomenon that increases in every election in Nigeria without any decisive official response to counteract it. This bodes ill for the 2023 general elections which might end up being decided by the size of the ‘bribe budget’ rather than …

The Chief Justice of Nigeria,  Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad may have resigned on health grounds.  According to a report monitored on Arise  News Channel, two impeccable sources at the Supreme Court have anonymously confirmed  that the CJN has resigned.  Last year, Justice Muhammad was reported to have travelled to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to treat an undisclosed ailment.  …