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Eight months after it conducted the highly-disputed February/March general elections in Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is being buffeted by criticisms yet again, for the way it handled three off-cycle governorship polls in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states on 11 November. The reports of media and electoral observers strongly indicate the noxious similitude of these previous polls to the elections. …

In a judgment on Sunday, the Court of Appeal, led by Justice Elphreda Williams-Dawodu, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to withdraw the Certificate of Return given to Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State. [L-R] Abdullahi Sule, Dauda Lawal, Caleb Mutfwang and Abba Yusuf. The court declared Nentawe Goshwe of the All Progressives Congress the rightful winner of the March …

Atlanta (AP) — Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the closest adviser to Jimmy Carter during his one term as U.S. president and their four decades thereafter as global humanitarians, has died at the age of 96. The Carter Center said she died Sunday after living with dementia and suffering many months of declining health, according to report by the Associated …

…Says Obidients should wake up Nigeria Good Governance Research Centre Executive Director, Comrade Igbotako Nowinta, has said that the battle to sanitize the laws managing the electoral process in Nigeria should start now, and Peter Obi should immediately assume its leadership. In a press statement he issued in Abuja yesterday, Comrade Nowinta, a renowned international conflict resolution expert cum human …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Operatives of Edo police Command have apprehended a commercial tricycle (Keke) operator and five others for gun running in Benin City. A member of Edo State Security Network (ESSN), allegedly involved in the act, is now on the run after he narrowly escaped arrest during police undercover operation in the state capital. Police recovered two locally made …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Security operatives in Edo have apprehended a suspected kidnapper while buying food for his gang’s victim in Benin City. Police said the suspect, James Melayi, 35 had conspired with two others now at large to kidnap a female teacher, one Lillian Ofonsare at Ikara Primary School, Ologbo Community, near Benin on October 18, 2023. “On 18/10/2023, at …

…Urges urgent economic policy review, others Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has decried the surge in inflation and the dollarization of the nation’s economy. Obaseki spoke while delivering his keynote address at the Delta State Executive Retreat 2023 with the theme, “Delivering the M.O.R.E Agenda for advancing Delta: Strategy and Enablers,” held in Asaba, Delta State. According to Obaseki, …

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has urged parents to be vigilant and check for small, decorative bottles in the bags or pockets of their children. This was made known in a statement shared by the Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday. He disclosed that the bottles are reportedly being used to package a substance known as …

*Says professor’s salary for 30 years can’t buy Nigerian legislator’s car The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the last general election, Mr. Peter Obi, has said that African leaders have turned the continent into a gigantic criminal enterprise, insisting that poor leadership, and not colonialism is responsible for Africa’s problems.Obi, in a statement issued yesterday by his …

The Federal Government has disclosed that it has raised N585million to be used for the payment of fines to secure the release of 4, 068 inmates across the federation. He said the first phase of the release of the inmates would commence from the Kuje Correctional Center in Abuja. The Interior Minister spoke on the sidelines of the 27th Ministerial Committee …