•Youth Corps members Kidnappers holding 20 prospective National Youth Service Corps members abducted along the Owerri-Onitsha Road in Imo State have reduced their ransom demand from N50m to N5m per victim, bringing the total demand down from N1bn to N100m. The development came as the victims’ parents disclosed that the abducted graduates were ...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has commenced an emergency plenary session on the contentious amendments to the Electoral Act, as protests erupted around the National Assembly over the removal of the clause mandating real-time electronic transmission of election results. The extraordinary sitting comes less than a week after the passage of the Ele...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate today panicked over public backlash from its insistence to retain electronic transmission of election results, in place of the proposed real time electronic transmission of election results. As a result it hurriedly deployed thirteen Senators to the Press Centre of the Senate in defense of the Senate President, Sena...

