The Independent National Electoral Commission will today (Monday), resume the Continuous Voter Registration ahead of the 2023 general elections. The commission had created 56, 872 additional polling units across the country. It had also accredited 31 organisations to observe the CVR, while 20 more applications were being processed. According to the commission, the registration, which […]
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Gunmen on Saturday killed a pregnant woman, Hawawu, and kidnapped her husband, Lukman Ibrahim, on Ojoku Road, Offa, in the Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State. Sources said Lukman, a young entrepreneur who deals in telephone accessories at the Owode Market, Offa, and his wife were attacked by the assailants around 10pm, some distance […]
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Power blocs within the All Progressives Congress have started the scramble for the control of the party’s structures, a few days after the approval and release of new dates for its ward, local government and state congresses. It was gathered in Abuja, on Sunday that with Friday’s decision by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari […]
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Mrs Esther Kanebi’s new home Home is where you lay your head at night to sleep in peace and with dignity. And finally, home for Mrs Esther Kanebi is a neat and sparsely furnished self-contained apartment built on the dingy spot she lived in a dehumanising form for years. The apartment was completed less than […]
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has warned against population explosion in the country. He said Nigeria’s population is becoming a liability due to its improper management, saying, except something urgent is done, Nigeria may be declared the third largest country in 2050. The former president called for population management in the face of the geometric population […]
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Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, will on Monday swear in 18 judges who have just been elevated to the Court of Appeal. This was disclosed in a letter signed by the Chief Registrar, Hadizatu Mustapha, and addressed to the Chief Judge of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Justice Salisu Garba. […]
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Immediate past President and Group CEO of Transcorp Plc, Valentine Ozigbo, on Saturday, emerged as the Peoples Democratic Party candidate for the Anambra State governorship election on November 6. He was elected at the party’s primary held at the Prof Dora Akunyili Women’s Development Center, Awka, the state capital. Announcing the results, the head of […]
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American, British, Nigerian, Chinese manufacturers, others eye supply contract With less than two years to the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission has proposed to buy about 200,000 electronic voting machines to cater for the 176,846 Polling Units in the country. As such, the agency’s Electronic Voting Implementation Committee has been reconstituted and […]
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There are indications that Mrs Evelyn Joshua, wife of the late founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Temitope Joshua, will replace him as General Overseer of the church. Evelyn and Joshua were married for 31 years and had three children together until his death on June 5 at the age of 57. France-based AfricaNews reports […]
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Confusion has trailed the emergence of Senator Andy Uba as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the Anambra State November 6 governorship poll. The Chairman of the APC primary election panel and Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, announced the outcome of the poll at Golden Tulip Hotel, Agulu Lake, Awka, early on […]
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