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Public commentators have blamed the Inde­pendent National Elec­toral Commission (INEC) for the rash of litigations that usually follows the conduct of elections in the country. They noted that if the elections had been trans­parent and standard there would have been fewer or no…

Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has said the Federal Government, inadvertently, promotes corruption whenever it allows paltry sums of money, in its yearly budget for a project, instead of the entire money required to complete such projects within the agreed time.…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday urged the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, not to direct the Yoruba people to support any aspirant in the 2023 general election. The former president asked the monarch not to allow Yoruba politicians to “add to your…

Sokoto State Governor, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal has accused the military of making the state “very vulnerable” to the activities of bandits flushed out from Zamfara State. No fewer than 23 travellers were burnt to death last Monday when some bandits opened fire on…

Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule has nominated a 28-year-old Abimiku Hanatu Bala, a lawyer from Lafia Local Government Area as a commissioner-nominee in Nasarawa State. Hannah graduated from the Nasarawa State University Keffi in 2016 and proceeded to the Nigerian law school where…

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has asked the Federal Government to authorise its enforcement officers to bear arms. It said child traffickers have become more dangerous. The agency said traffickers now lure victims under the guise of…

Crisis may erupt between the people of two rich oil local government areas, Eket and Ibeno of Akwa Ibom State over the siting of the proposed BUA refinery in the area. Last week, the people of Eket and Esit Eket Local Government…