Gunmen attack INEC officials during voter registration in Enugu
Unknown gunmen have attacked some officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at a polling unit in Enugu State where the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) was being held. The INEC officials were attacked by the gunmen at Community Primary School Umuopu in Umuozzi Ward 19, Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State on Wednesday. The incident was confirmed via...
ECOWAS court declares Nigeria’s Twitter ban unlawful
A court of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has declared the ban on Twitter in Nigeria by the Federal Government unlawful. According to the deputy director of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) Kolawole Oluwadare, the ECOWAS court also ordered the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration not to repeat such. The Star recalls that the Federal Government, on...
2023: Kwankwaso picks Bishop Idahosa as running mate
The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso, has picked a Lagos-based pastor, Bishop Isaac Idahosa, as his running mate for the 2023 general election. This was disclosed via a tweet on the party’s official Twitter handle on Thursday. “Our VP Pastor Bishop Isaac Idahosa from Edo State,” the NNPP tweeted. Bishop Idahosa, who hails from Edo...
6 killed, 65 injured as windstorm hits Jigawa
No fewer than six people have been killed while 65 others were injured as windstorm hit Kafin-Hausa Local Government Area of Jigawa State. The Executive Secretary, Jigawa State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Yusuf Sani, told journalists that the windstorm devastated many communities in the state. Sani said SEMA would conduct damage assessment in the worst hit communities in the state with...
Kano APC stalwarts call for reconciliation with aggrieved members
The All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwarts in Kano State have called on the party’s national leadership to initiate a strategic reconciliation mechanism to pacify aggrieved members ahead of the 2023 general election. The party’s stalwarts made the call recently when the North West Zonal Vice Chairman, Salihu Lukman, held a meeting with them during a fact-finding tour in the zone. The zonal...
Jigawa govt set to release 1.7m sacks of fertiliser to farmers
Jigawa State Government has concluded plans to release over 1.7 million sacks of NPK fertiliser for sale to farmers in the state to support this year's rainy season farming. The state deputy governor, Umar Namadi, said Jigawa State Agricultural Supply Company (JASCO) has already been ordered to commence the sale to the farmers across the state. Namadi, who made this known...
Court to Oyo deputy gov: We can’t stop your impeachment
The Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan, the state capital, on Thursday, dismissed a case filed by the deputy governor, Rauf Olaniyan, to stop the Oyo State House of Assembly from removing him from office. Delivering judgement, Justice Ladiran Akintola said the lawmakers and all the defendants were right on the procedures taken. The presiding judge ruled that the originating...
Osun election: Court dismisses suit seeking Oyetola’s disqualification
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, dismissed a suit seeking the disqualification of Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Saturday’s gubernatorial election in the state. Delivering judgement, Justice Inyang Ekwo, declared that the suit filed by a chieftain of the APC, Moshood Olalekan Adeoti, against Oyetola was an abuse of...
US-based company to establish pharmaceutical, allied industries in Kogi
A United States-based company, SIVAD Group, has intimated the Kogi State Government of its plans to establish a world class pharmaceutical, agricultural, and other allied industries in the state, with a plan to commence operation in couple of weeks. The company’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Lenzie Davis, made this known on Wednesday during a courtesy visit to the Kogi State...
Aregbesola to NIS: Allow Nigerians with expired passports to return home
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has ordered the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to allow Nigerians in diaspora to return to Nigeria with their expired international passports. Aregbesola gave the directive in Lagos on Wednesday while responding to a complaint by a Nigerian-American citizen, Mr Jamui Kasumu, at the Alausa Passport Office during his unscheduled visit to the facility. Kasumu complained...
