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A coalition of Civil Society Central Coordinating Council and some political parties has faulted calls for the sack of the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC), Yakubu Mahmood. The coalition on the aegies of Civil Society National Roundtable, at a press briefing, in Abuja, on Monday, said the call for Mahmood sack was Ill-motivated. The group, in a statement read …

Chief D.U. Edebiri, the Esogban of Benin Kingdom, “lived a fulfilled life, making indelible and unblemished contributions to the progress of the kingdom and its people,” Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said. Obaseki made the remarks on Sunday in a press statement he personally signed, mourning the passing of the Benin senior Chief, who died at the age 93, …

• List reasons president ‘s victory shouldn’t stand • Atiku urges tribunal to uphold INEC’s declaration that he won in 21 states The presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi at the February 25, 2023 election have both blasted President Bola Tinubu for saying that nullifying the election that produced him as …

Parents, under the aegis of the National Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria, NAPTAN, have called on President Bola Tinubu to apply the brake to the spate of increments in tuition fees and others by government-owned schools. The parents said life was being snuffed out of them as a result of such increases in almost all sectors, such as fuel, electricity …

…Choice of APC chairman creates ripples in APC…President torn between Ganduje and Al-Makura About four days to the expiration of the 60-day provision for the President to submit names of ministerial nominees to the Senate for screening and confirmation, President Bola Tinubu is yet to fulfil this constitutional provision. Recall that President Tinubu took the oath of office on May …

Several markers and official responses in the last week demonstrate the unfolding turmoil in the economy and the uncoordinated response of President Bola Tinubu. While the naira exchange rate rose to N870 to $1, and the pump price of petrol to N617 per litre, inflation rate in June was reported at 22.79 per cent. Food inflation was even higher; and …

The move to rehabilitate criminals into better citizens, which was one of the motives of rechristening prisons as correctional service centres, seems to have been blighted by failure to properly overhaul the critical service and its personnel. After four years Nigerian Prisons Service changed its name to the Nigerian Correctional Service as one of the criteria to solve the problem …

The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Asaba, Delta State, has nullified the election of Mr. Ngozi Okolie of the Labour Party as member representing Aniocha/Oshimili Constituency at the House of Representatives. The tribunal in a judgement on Monday, held that Okolie was not duly sponsored by the Labour Party as he was not a member of the party …

Says it’s ridiculous, embarrassing, threatens nationwide protest  The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has condemned the increase in tuition of higher institutions in the country. The student body said it was most ridiculous and embarrassing that the government would be introducing fees increment without thinking of rescuing over 133 million Nigerian people from multidimensional poverty. In a statement, at …

The result of the unlawful change of add- hoc workers, he said, was the production of different election results from the one submitted by the authentic workers. Alleging that an agent of the state government submitted an unlawful ad-hoc staff list, the Returning Officer explained that the fact that INEC accepted the list and used it was a clear evidence …