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MAIDUGURI—Almost one year after more than 200 secondary schoolgirls were abducted from their school in Chibok, Borno state by Boko Haram terrorists and their school set ablaze, members of the community and some of the distraught parents yesterday rejected attempt by the Federal Government to rebuild the burnt school insisting that all they wanted was to have their children back …

ABUJA— The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday endorsed last weekend’s trial run on the card readers and resolved to use the device for the forthcoming general elections. The INEC stance nonetheless, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors were last night locked in a meeting in Lagos where they were articulating strong objections to the use of the device. The PDP …

Electoral offences are arguably the most widespread infractions of the law in this season. However, few are ever punished in Nigeria. The most notable are offences leading to the election including violations of campaign expenses and the use of government facilities for campaign. prison-cartoonIndeed, it is even more remarkable that because of the system in Nigeria that a number of …

ABUJA – The CBN has assured that Nigerian banks are safe, following the outcome of a stress test it conducted. This is contained in a statement signed by the Director of Corporate Communications of the CBN, Alhaji Ibrahim Mu’azu, on Sunday in Abuja. “Following the recent top-down stress tests of Deposit Money Banks carried out; the CBN re-affirms that the …

The test run of the Card Reader Machines proposed for the forthcoming general elections, carried out in 12 states, yesterday, exposed the flaws in the new voting technology introduced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Significantly, the machines failed to recognise Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in some states. In many other states, the machines’ batteries went down after barely …

The presidential flag-bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday, restated his commitment to empowering Nigerian women. This is contained in a statement tagged “Special message to Nigerian women”, released in Abuja and signed by Malam Garba Shehu, in commemoration of the International Women’s Day. Shehu is the Director Media and Publicity, APC Presidential Campaign Organisation. …

By Alltimepost.com WASHINGTON – America’s First Lady, Mrs. Michelle Obama on Wednesday at a Give an Hour conference of mental health professionals she hosted to raise awareness and drum support for people with mental illness left the public with a message that the disease should carry ‘no stigma.’ Michelle Obama who has been the strongest advocate for veterans and their …

President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed confidence that the over 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in their hostel in Chibok, Borno State last year are still alive. Jonathan, who also said that his chance of winning the March 28 presidential poll was slimmer than in 2011, based his position on the fact that terrorists would naturally display the corpses of …

ABUJA—THE Senate Committee on Defence and Army, yesterday, demanded how the over N1.275 billion budgeted to the Ministry of Defence in the 2014 fiscal year was spent. Meantime, the Senate Committee on Defence has frowned at the attitude of the Minister of Defence, General Aliu Gusau for not attending budget defence in the senate and directed that he should get …

Authorities in a northeastern Indian city said Friday they had imposed a round-the-clock curfew, a day after a rape suspect was pulled out of jail and lynched by a mob and another man was killed in the subsequent police firing. The suspect, who stood accused of raping a woman multiple times and was arrested in late February, was dragged out …