Twenty-five years after the current Polling Units were created in 1996, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has created new 56,872 Polling Units, bringing the number to a total number of 176,846 from the existing 119,974 Polling Units. These will come into effect starting from the Anambra State Governorship electionContinue Reading
Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James popularly known as Baba Ijesha, on Wednesday pleaded not guilty before a Yaba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos Stat. Baba Ijesha who was accused of molesting a 14-year-old appeared before the court on Wednesday. He was charged on a four-count charge of sexual assault and indecent treatmentContinue Reading
The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has declared that Cross River State, which the party has governed since the return of party politics in 1999, “will remain the stronghold of our party” well after 2023. Secondus said despite the recent defection of Governor Ben AyadeContinue Reading
Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, says it is wrong for President Muhammadu Buhari to abandon his constitutional responsibility of securing Nigerians for governors. During an interview with Arise TV on Thursday, Buhari said he told two south-west governors, who came to meet him in Abuja, to return to their states andContinue Reading
Reuben Abati, former spokesman to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, says it is evident that President Muhammadu Buhari is in charge of the country. Abati was commenting on Buhari’s interview with ARISE TV last week Thursday. Several critics including Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, and Aminu Tambuwal, governor of Sokoto state, had claimed that NigeriaContinue Reading
The consumer price index (CPI), which measures the rate of change in prices of goods and services, dropped to 17.93 percent in May from 18.12 in April. This is according to the ‘Consumer Price Index Report’, released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), on Tuesday. On month-on-month basis, theContinue Reading
Abdulrasheed Bawa, chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says he has been receiving death threats since he became the chairman of the anti-corruption agency. He said this to corroborate the statement by Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, that corruption is fighting back. Bawa said when he was away in theContinue Reading
The Federal Government on Tuesday confirmed that Twitter has formally written to seek for dialogue on issues leading to the indefinite suspension of its operations in the country. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, confirmed this when he featured on “Politics Nationwide,’’ a Radio Nigeria call-in programmeContinue Reading
Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says Twitter and its founder, Jack Dorsey, are liable for the losses the country suffered during the EndSARS protests. Speaking on Tuesday when he featured on Radio Nigeria, Mohammed said Dorsey raised funds through Bitcoins to sponsor the EndSARS protests while his platform,Continue Reading
Former presidential candidate, Donald Duke has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Bukola Saraki, a former Senate president made this known on his facebook page as he welcomed the former governor into the opposition party. Recall that Donald Duke in 2018 dumped PDP and ran for presidency in 2015Continue Reading
