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Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the governorship and senatorial elections that took place in Kogi State at the weekend. It said the call was necessitated due to a high level of violence and electoral malpractices that took place during the election in the state.  The […]

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has taken over some assets belonging to a former Minister of State for Defence, Ademola Seriki for debts amounting to N1 billion. The affected assets it was gathered, include those located at No. 1a & 1b, Jalupon Close, Surulere, Lagos and another at No. 4, Djibouti Crescent, a […]

The ridiculous assertion by President Muhammadu Buhari that 35 aides attached to the office of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, were not sacked; but merely “redeployed” simply stands logic on its head as it contradicts earlier claims by the Presidency that the aides were disengaged as part of the “ongoing, unprecedented overhaul of the nation’s seat […]

Former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), has been arrested and is being held in Dubai by Interpol, www.www.aso.rocks search engine has learnt. It was gathered that Adoke was arrested shortly after arriving in Dubai on November 11; where he had travelled there for medical evaluation after a court […]

Bookmakers were, yesterday, proven right, when shootings, widespread violence and electoral malpractices took center stage as Bayelsa and Kogi states went to the polls to elect new governors, and a senator. At least three deaths as well as maiming, kidnapping; several cases of ballot box snatching, intimidation of voters, vote-buying, massive rigging and sundry electoral […]

Despite the high level of thuggery and brigandage that occasioned voting in some parts of Bayelsa State, including the maiming at Ward 5, Opolo, Yenagoa, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) David Lyon was declared winner of the Bayelsa State governorship poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).   “That Lyon David […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the Kogi West senatorial district election inconclusive. The returning officer for the election Professor Olayinde Lawal said the margin between the two leading candidates – Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress and People’s Democratic Party’s Dino Melaye – is lower than the total number of votes cancelled. […]

Adams Oshiomhole Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday denounced purported call by the Director General of Progressive Governors’ Forum, Saliu Lukman on Wednesday asking the National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole to convene a NEC meeting or resign. According to them, the said the statement did not emanate and could not […]

My dear Honourables, I hope you will excuse me for distracting you from your onerous duties, but I am a current sufferer – and I am not alone – from a persistent nightmare. That affliction has been induced by your most recent approach to addressing an acknowledged problem that affects, not only Nigerians but the […]

Busola Dakolo, wife of Nigerian singer Timi Dakolo, has vowed to take her rape case against Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo, founder Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), to the Appeal Court following the decision of an FCT High Court to declare it “statute barred”. The decision came after the Court sitting in Bwari, ruled on Thursday that […]

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the February 23 Presidential Elections, Atiku Abubakar and his party were on Friday absent in court when the apex court gave reasons for the dismissal of their appeal challenging the election of President Muhammadu Buhari. The Supreme Court, explaining why they lost their appeal against the […]