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The House of Representatives has rolled out a proposal that would ensure stiff punishment for electoral infractions and promote fair and credible polls. In a proposed legislation tagged: “A Bill to Establish the National Electoral Offences Commission, the lawmerkers propose at least 15-year jail term for anyone convicted of vote buying in any election and 20 years or a fine of …

• Obi meets Afenifere leader, Adebanjo in Lagos• ‘Northwest states indifferent to 2023 elections over insecurity, Shettima’• Soyinka: Same faith ticket controversial, ill-timed• Why Tinubu deserves to be next president, by Keyamo As the crises in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) linger, some governors loyal to the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, have moved to Paris, France, for further deliberations …

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has urged stakeholders to step up global efforts to end the scourge of human trafficking and all other forms of modern slavery. Obaseki made the call in commemoration of the International Day for the Remembrance of Slave Trade and its Abolition, which is marked on August 23, every year, by the United Nations Educational, …

*List plans to further reduce deficit, attaining 70% stock Collaboration between the Federal Government and the private sector will not only ensure effective coordination of the infrastructure development across the nation, and all sectors of the economy, it will also bridge the nation’s infrastructure gaps, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN). This is a major reason why the Buhari …

President Muhammadu Buhari, and four others have been dragged before a Federal High Court, Abuja, over their alleged unlawful interference in the operations of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The suit brought by an aggrieved indigene of the Niger Delta region from Imo State, has President Muhammadu Buhari, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), and Minister of Justice, …

• We won’t succumb to blackmail -ASUU Two civil societies, the Nigerian Project Initiative (NPI) and the Initiative to Save Democracy (ISD) have threatened to mobilise other civil society groups for a showdown against the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over its decision to shut lecture halls until its demand for payment of six months salaries while its members were on …

Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore, has described as unacceptable the attacks on Presidential candidates of other political parties, including one of the ‘fake Bishops’ who was present at the unveiling of the vice presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Kashim Shettima. Sowore, while linking the attacks to supporters of the presidential candidate of the …

A Nigerian Air Force(NAF), fighter jet engaged in the ongoing counter insurgency operations in the north east have bombarded a logistic base and stronghold belonging to members of the Islamic States of West African Province(ISWAP), terrorists and killed scores of terrorists. The bombardment which took place at Sambisa Forest and the Tumbuns in Borno State, left several of the terrorists …

• Everything negative, situation pathetic, worst ever – PDP, LP presidential candidates Presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Monday flayed the Federal Government over the insecurity and economic crisis confronting the nation, stating that Nigeria possessed all the negative indices that qualified it as a failed state. The two candidates …

Leadership of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) has cautioned the northern youths, under the Arewa Youths Assembly (AYA) over inflammatory comments against a Niger Delta freedom fighter, Government Ekpemupolo, also known as Tompolo. IYC gave the warning in response to a statement credited to AYA questioning the capacity of Tompolo in handling the crude oil surveillance contract awarded by the Federal …