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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, has been kidnapped after his driver and a personal aide were shot and killed in Rivers State on Monday. Reports say the SAN was trailed and attacked around the Obiri-Ikwerre interchange in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state. According to a source who spoke to Vanguard, […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has asked Hudu Yunusa-Ari, the resident electoral commissioner in Adamawa, to stay away from its office in the state. The directive was conveyed in a letter yesterday, signed by Rose Oriaran-Anthony, secretary to the commission. The REC had declared Aisha ‘Binani’ Dahiru, candidate of the All Progressives Congress […]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has frowned at what he termed the spate of ethnic and religious prejudice in Nigeria, saying that it has deeply penetrated the nation’s fabric, especially in elections. He spoke on Monday at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in Kuru, Jos, Plateau State at a lecture […]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has approved the R21 malaria vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India. The Director General of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, disclosed this on Monday at a press briefing in Abuja. This makes Nigeria the second country to approve the new malaria vaccine developed […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday declared Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate as the winner of Sokoto South Senatorial District. Declaring the results of the supplementary elections, the Returning Officer for the Sokoto South Senatorial District, Abubakar Bagudo, said Mr Tambuwal scored 100, […]
An unusual silence has echoed from the camp of President-elect Bola Tinubu after his Guinean diplomatic passport surfaced on social media, sending internet users into a frenzy over how the new leader of Africa’s largest economy lied to the nation’s electoral commission while under oath. On Saturday night, minutes before midnight, independent journalist David […]
Drama ensued yesterday in Adamawa as the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Yunusa Ari, declared the candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the supplementary governorship election, Aisha Dahiru, aka Binani, winner of the election, even when he didn’t have the power to do so. Though the collation of results was scheduled to start […]
The House Member representing Ughelli North, Ughelli South, Udu Federal Constituency of Delta State Hon Francis Waive has declared his intentions for the position of Deputy Speaker at the 10th National Assembly (NASS). Waive the Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Power, in a notice to the House of Reps members-Elect said his aspiration, […]
On Wednesday, Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu a former Deputy Governor of Lagos State raised an alarm that her life was being threatened over the emergence of the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Sinatu Ojikutu, the first female democratically elected deputy governor in the country before the 2023 general election, vowed to go into exile if […]
A seven-storey building at First Avenue, Banana Island, Ikoyi Lagos state, collapsed yesterday evening with some construction workers trapped inside. Reports say many of the workers were injured while others jumped when the building caved in. At about 8.30 pm seven construction workers were rescued while an undisclosed number of persons were still trapped. […]
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