… We only presented results collated from polling units – LP … Let me confirm from legal team – INEC’s spokesperson The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, on Thursday accused the Labour Party, LP, of attempt to smuggle forged copies of Certified True Copy, CTC, of the November 11, 2023 Imo governorship election materials. The…
The House of Representatives Joint Committee on Works, Environment, Finance, Justice, and Science & Technology, on Thursday, held a one-day public hearing on the adoption of concrete technology for road construction in Nigeria. Declaring the event open, the Speaker of the House, Tajudeen Abbas, lamented the poor condition of roads across the country. Represented by…
A 70-year-old Ugandan woman, Safina Namukwaya, has given birth to twins in Kampala, Uganda’s capital. According to BBC, the woman delivered a set of twins; a boy and a girl, after becoming pregnant through an Invitro fertilisation treatment, Namukwaya went through a successful caesarean delivery at the Women’s Hospital International and Fertility Centre in the…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday said that every former governor and indeed any individual with corruption cases will face the anti-graft agency’s investigation. The commission’s zonal commander, ACE Aliyu Yunusa stated this at the opening of a one-day EFCC Civil Society Organisations engagement organised in Sokoto. According to Yunusa, no one…
NEPWHAN, in Gombe State, on Thursday, announced the demise of four of its members had died for allegedly using herbal HIV treatment. The Programme Officer of the association, Mr Muhammad Ibrahim shared the information in Gombe at an event to commemorate the 2023 World AIDS Day. Ibrahim said the increase of the use of herbal…
The “upsurge” in respiratory illness in China is not from “a new or novel pathogen,” the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reassured members of Congress on Thursday. The surge is concentrated in northern China, she said, where NBC News has reported hospitals have appeared to be “overwhelmed with sick children.” Since…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has discontinued its money laundering case against a former Lagos State Attorney-General, Olasupo Shasore. The EFCC withdrew the 14-count charge it filed against Shasore and his firm, Middlesex Investments Limited, before an Abuja Federal High Court on Thursday. According to EFCC counsel, Bala Sanga, the discontinuation follows a directive…
ISSUES There is an increasing consensus that the American form of liberal democracy that we currently practice in the country is not quite working for us. As far back as 2011, then President Goodluck Jonathan proposed a single tenure of six years for presidents and governors in the country, beginning from 2015. Suspicions over his…
Abia State Coordinator of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Mrs Ufuoma Dick-Iruenabere, has decried the increasing rate of demands for relocation to other states by Corps members deployed to Abia. Dick-Iruenabere raised the concerns at the NYSC permanent orientation camp, Umunna, Bende LGA of the state, during the swearing-in ceremony of the Batch C…
Abia State Governor, Alex Otti has sworn in Mayors and their deputies for the 27 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the State. The governor charged the officials to serve and secure their communities. Otti, who gave the charge at Michael Okpara auditorium, Umuahia, during the swearing-in ceremony of the 34 appointees, said that the first…
