GUNMEN have attacked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Enugu South Local Government Area, killing one police officer. “The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Enugu State, Dr. Chukwuemeka J. Chukwu, has reported that our office in Enugu South Local Government Area was attacked by unknown gunmen. The incident occurred around 9.12 pm yesterday, Sunday 15th January 2023,” INEC National Commissioner Festus Okoye said in a statement Monday. “The security gatehouse was razed. Fortunately, the attackers could not gain access to the main building as a result of the rapid response from the Police and Army personnel from the…
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THE Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal challenging the emergence of Umar Namadi as the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Jigawa State for the forthcoming general elections. Namadi is the deputy governor of Jigawa State. A former member of the House of Representatives, Farouk Aliyu, challenged the APC primary election held on May 26th which produced Namadi as the party’s governorship flagbearer for the March 11th poll. Delivering its judgement prepared by Justice Kekere-Ekun and read by Justice Ibrahim Saulawa, a five-member panel of the Supreme Court said Aliyu’s appeal lacked merit and he failed to prove the…
PRESIDENTIAL Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (#PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has returned from the United Kingdom. Atiku had travelled to Dubai from where he went to the UK for meetings with key government officials. During his time abroad, there were reports that the former vice president was ill and receiving treatment. But Paul Ibe, Atiku’s spokesman, denied this stating that the trip was at the invitation of British officials. Atiku met with UK’s Minister for Development and Africa in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Andrew Mitchell, among other key senior UK government officials. He also held a closed-door meeting…
PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has expressed concern over the Saturday’s attack on a train station in Igueben LGA of Edo State during which an undetermined number of people was kidnapped by armed men. He added that it was unacceptable for terrorists to plan attacks of this nature, mobilize arms and ammunition, secure funding and move large number of people across large spaces without detection by the security agencies. A press release signed by the Atiku Media Office on Sunday noted that the unfortunate incident “is the latest in…
IT has been observed that insecurity, abject poverty and lack of employment, devaluation of the country’s currency, and bastardization of the educational sector are least of the worst legacies by the APC led administration in the last seven and half years, the Dutse based social critic, Comrade Buba Chinade hinted. “It is most unfortunate that we wasted our time and resources in the last seven and half years to vote for a party of collections of criminals and looters of national treasury on the expense of the larger society”, said Comrade Chinade. Speaking to press men in Dutse on the…
THE Gombe State government in collaboration with the Federal Government has inaugurated a N11.49 billion regional water supply project in the state. Inaugurating the project in Gombe on Friday, the Minister of Water Resources (FMWR), Mr Suleiman Adamu, said the project was aimed at rehabilitating, expanding and upgrading the water project in the state. Adamu said that the project was in line with the provision of the National Water Supply and Sanitation policy of the Federal Government. He said that the Federal Government’s intervention was to accelerate access to portable water in the county towards meeting national and internationally set…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari and national leader of the All Progressives Congress are to take the front seat in the party’s presidential campaigns ahead of next February’s Presidential and National Assembly elections to hold on February 25. A statement issued on Friday by Festus Keyamo, Minister of State, Labour and Employment, who incidentally is the Director of Public Affairs and Chief Spokesperson, Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, disclosed that President Buhari has agreed to be present at rallies to be held in ten states across the country. President Buhari is the Chairman of the Presidential Campaign Council of the APC. Keyamo in…