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The House of Representatives on Friday passed the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, leaving unchanged  Clause 52(2) as presented, the center of controversies surrounding the bill.   The clause allows the Independent National Electoral Commission to determine when, where and how voting and transmission of results will be done.   Clause 52(2) reads, “Voting at an […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, dropped the name Professor Chukwuma Soludo, a factional candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), in the list  of candidates for the November 6 governorship election for Anambra State, published Friday.   INEC, instead cleared the candidate of APGA’s other faction, Chukwuma Micheal Umeoji, as the party’s candidate […]

  …as debate stall in House of Reps   The Senate on Thursday employed technicalities to reject a proposal for the electronic transmission of election results in the country.   The voting on the issue toed the party line, even overriding the position of the Southern Governors Forum, which at the of their meeting recently […]

Major General Hussaini Ahmed, former Provost Marshal of the Nigerian Army, during the tenure of Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai was on Thursday assassinated by suspected Bandits/kidnappers along the Lokoja-Abuja highway.   The General was said to be coming from Okene with his in-law when they were attacked by the gunmen who also kidnapped his […]

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, says the Federal Government displayed injustice by releasing 1,009 Boko Haram fighters, while the embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu is in detention.   This was declared by National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, and the group’s Media Affairs Director, […]

  The Senate on Thursday passed the harmonised Petroleum Industry Bill, a version it said was produced by a conference committee of both Upper Chamber and the House of Representatives.   The passage went through amidst protests from Senators from the South South region, who had threatened to stage a walkout over some provisions in […]

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Thursday announced it had given permission for emergency use of three COVID-19 vaccines – Moderna, AstraZeneca (from Korea) and Sputnik V.   This was disclosed by the Director-General of the NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, at the agency’s headquarters in Abuja.   The announcement […]

  Delta State has moved closer to the banning of open grazing of cattle as the bill on that passed the second reading in the House of Assembly on Wednesday.   The bill, tagged “Delta State Livestock Breeding, Rearing and Marketing Regulation,“ was debated during plenary which was presided over by the Speaker, Chief Sheriff […]

The Senate of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) on Wednesday ordered all students out of hostels and halls of residence over reported cases of COVID-19 infections among the students.   The management of the school also approved the commencement of online lectures from July 26, 2021.   These decisions were taken at an emergency meeting […]

The leaders of Yoruba Nation, the group campaigning for self-determination of the South West region, have dragged President Muhammadu Buhari and other top government officials to the International Criminal Court.   Those who signed the petition are Emeritus Professor Banji Akintoye; leader of the Yoruba Nation, Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Igboho, and other […]

The Republic of   Cameroon, Nigeria’s immediate neighbour to the east, has congratulated and thanked the government for the re-arrest and reparation of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra through the collaboration of national security agencies and the INTERPOL.   Cameroon’s thanksgiving was expressed by Mr Felix Mbayu, a Special Envoy […]

The Geneva, Switzerland-based International Human Rights Commission has declared that there was no case of human rights violation recorded in the re-arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra,, Nnamdi Kanu  in  Kenya by that country’s Special Police Forces.   The human rights agency admitted receiving no fewer than 25 petitions from individuals […]