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The National Youths Service Corps has urged youths in various communities to look at the benefits of Nigerian cultural diversity, harvest them and use them to develop themselves and the society at large. 2023 Batch C Stream 1 Corps Members during the cultural carnival The Anambra State Coordinator of NYSC, Blessing Iruma, made the call during the 2023 Batch C …

• Says fighting menace not easy, urges govt to persevere Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has called for a vigorous and holistic approach to the fight against corruption in the country, saying it is a major impediment against collective national progress. Magu made this known on Saturday during the conferment of a doctoral …

Human rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, said the judgments of the appellate court sacking Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State and Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State should be reviewed. Falana made this call in an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. He said the votes of Nigerians should not be nullified by the courts because …

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, …