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Personnel of Nigerian Correctional Services have warned their bosses not to tamper with Allowances appropriated for them to provide services during the just concluded general elections held on 25 February and on 18 March 2023. They recalled that during the 2019 general elections such moneys, never got to them whereas their counterparts in other sister agencies in the Ministry of Interior had all received their election duty allowances. Speaking in Calabar on conditions of anonymity, the… Read the full article here
The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced that the supplementary governorship elections in Kebbi and Adamawa states will be held on April 15. INEC made this known in a tweet on Monday Recall that INEC had declared the governorship elections of March 18 in both states as inconclusive. The tweet reads, “Arising from its meeting held today, the Independent National Electoral Commission has decided that all outstanding Governorship, National and State Assembly supplementary… Read the full article here
A farmer, Mr. Adewumi Babatunde, has been kidnapped on his way from his farm in Omu-Ekiti, Oye Local government. Mr. Babatunde was abducted yesterday afternoon between Omu and Ayede-Ekiti. Confirming the incident with our Correspondent on telephone, wife of the victim, Mrs. Bosede Babatunde said the kidnappers had contacted the family and demanded for three million naira ransom. Also, the Owajumu of Omu-Ekiti, Oba Adeyeye Ogundeyi who lamented incessant kidnapping of indigenes especially… Read the full article here
Sunshine Stars head coach, Edith Agoye has reiterated the team’s desire to secure a place in the season ending Super Six competition. The top three teams in Group A and B will clash to determine the overall winner of the 2022/23 Nigeria Premier Football League season. The Owena Waves moved to third position on the Group B table after coming from behind to draw 1-1 against Wikki Tourists in Bauchi on Sunday Agoye said with the quality of players signed during mid-season break, he is… Read the full article here
Botsawa’s former president could be a candidate to watch out for in the nation’s upcoming general elections. Ian Khama who is exiled stands for presidency of his party next month. He claims his successor has become a threat to democracy. In South Africa since 2021, Khama says he possesses intelligence information on plans to arrest and poison him if he returned home. He believes the authorities fear his influence. “They fear, have got,… Read the full article here
In Chilobwe Township within Blantyre, Malawi’s commercial capital, residents say a stream of water cascaded from nearby Soche mountain at midnight, literally sweeping everything along its path. A few people managed to escape, but dozens were found dead by morning, mostly buried in the mud, as the death toll rose to 500 across the country. “What happened is something that I’ve never seen in my whole life,” Dumisani Mtolo, 30, a taxi driver and a father of two… Read the full article here
Elon Musk has put the current value of Twitter at $20 billion, less than half the $44 billion he paid for the social media platform just five months ago, according to an internal email seen by American news media. The email to employees referred to a new stock compensation program in the San Francisco-based company and the allocation of shares to employees of X Holdings, Twitter’s umbrella company since Musk purchased it in late October. The compensation plan… Read the full article here
Agba Jalingo, a Nigerian journalist on trial for treason, has been remanded in Kuje prison from Monday till Thursday A judge in the Federal High Court in Abuja, Justice Zainab Bage Abubakar, remanded the journalist to Kuje prison for cybercrime. It was reported that Justice Abubakar allegedly denied Jalingo’s lawyers the opportunity to move a motion for bail after he was arraigned for cyberstalking. Jalingo was accused of defaming Elizabeth Ayade, the wife of… Read the full article here
In Oyo State, it is always easy to project political swings based on the temperature in town. Ahead of the 2011 and 2015 presidential elections, Goodluck Jonathan and Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) were the names in town, and it is no surprise they won the elections. Ahead of Saturday’s governorship election, it is incontestable that the name in town is Seyi Makinde, just like the name in town was Asiwaju Bola Tinubu two weeks ago when the presidential poll… Read the full article here
The Ogun State Election Petitions Tribunal has granted the request of the New Nigeria Peoples Party to inspect all the sensitive materials including the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines used during the governorship election in the state. The motion ex-parte which was filed on Monday, March 20,2023, was decided on last Friday and a copy, which was obtained by our correspondent on Monday (today), showed that the NNPP was an applicant while INEC, Abiodun and APC were… Read the full article here
