•DIG Frank Mba and some police personnel deployed for election duty today Ahead of the Edo State governorship election today, the Nigerian Police Force has advised voters to return home after casting their ballots. Deputy Inspector General of Police, Frank Mba, who was a guest on Channels Television last night, said that only those accredited ...
•APC chieftains present Okpebholo to supporters The vice president, Kashim Shettima, has implored the people of Edo State to vote for the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Monday Okpebholo, in next Saturday’s governorship election in the state in order to birth a state that is functional. According to the VP who joined othe...
•CNG The federal government will spend an average of N36bn to convert 30,000 petrol or diesel-powered vehicles to start running on Compressed Natural Gas in the next 90 days. The government said it had acquired 30,000 CNG conversion kits for distribution free of charge nationwide within the period, reports The PUNCH. The kits and the […...
•Former Governor Willie Obiano A former commercial bank staff, Mr Ugochukwu Otubelu, has revealed how he managed the security vote account under ex-Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra government. Otubelu, who said he is now a businessman, told Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court, Abuja that he was with the bank between November 2, [&hell...
•UN The United Nations Security Council will vote tomorrow on the Palestinians’ application to become a full UN member state, several diplomatic sources have told our correspondent. Amid Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, the Palestinians in early April revived a membership application first made to the world body in 2011, though the veto-wi...
The House of Representatives has rejected a bill seeking to amend sections 134 and 179 of the constitution, which provide the conditions to be elected president and governor, respectively. The bill, which sought to make it mandatory for presidential and governorship candidates to secure more than 50 percent of the total votes cast, to be [&hel...
•A Congolese police officer stands guard at a polling station People in the Democratic Republic of Congo were voting today in a high-stakes election pitting the incumbent President Felix Tshisekedi against a fragmented opposition, whose leaders denounced “chaos” and “irregularities”. The first polling stations in the east of the vast central A...
•Ladi Adebutu Days after losing at the appeal court, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Ogun State, Ladi Adebutu, insists his party won the March 18 poll with over 50,000 votes. Governor Dapo Abiodun of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared winner of the poll after polling 276,298. Adebutu scored 262,383 wh...
The Supreme Court has agreed with the Court of Appeal that the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, is like other states. The presiding justice of the panel, John Okoro, asked, “Are you saying if someone scores 25% votes in 30 states but not in Abuja, he should not be president? Is that how you interpret the […]

