Observer group seeks election tribunal before 2023 polls

An International Election Observer Group, Pan African Women Project (PAWP), has called on the Federal Government to establish election tribunal to prosecute electoral offences and punish offenders of electoral process in the country. The group stated this in a report signed by Head of Mission, PAWP, South Africa, Mrs. Eben Udensi and Publicity Secretary of […]

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Eye Foundation Hospital provides free surgeries for 70 glaucoma patients

As part of its ongoing efforts and collaborations to raise awareness on glaucoma and improve access to quality care and management of the eye disease in Nigeria, the Eye Foundation Hospital Group organized a 3rd Biennial International Glaucoma Symposium between February 4 and 7 in Lagos. The theme of the international symposium was New Horizon […]

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INEC can’t seize my certificate of return

Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has faulted a decision by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to withhold his Certificate of Return (CoR) as the senator-elect for Imo West District. He described the move as unfortunate and unconstitutional. The governor also accused the INEC of allowing itself to be used by those he claimed, were […]

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Buhari rejects oil spill detection agency bill

President Muhammadu Buhari has declined assent to the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) Act (Amendment) Bill. The National Assembly passed the Bill and transmitted it to the President for assent last year. Senate President Bukola Saraki read the refusal of assent letter on the floor of the Senate yesterday. Buhari noted that […]

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Atiku condoles families, victims of Lagos building collapse

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate in the February 23 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has commiserated with victims and families of those who died in yesterday’s building collapse in Lagos State. He registered his sympathy in a statement by his spokesman, Mr Paul Ibe over the collapse of the four-storey building housing a private elementary school […]

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Gunmen kill DPO, expectant police officer, others

Gunmen have attacked the Divisional Police Command and office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), at Afuze, Edo State,with Improvised Explosive Devices (IED). The IED at Afuze Police Command exploded, but the one at INEC office did not explode. Four police officers, including the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Ojo Kosenami and an expectant policewoman, […]

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Police arrest Oyo Chief Whip over Olatoye’s murder

Oyo  State Police Command has arrested the Chief Whip of the Oyo State House of Assembly,  Wasiu Olafisoye Akinmoyede, in connection with the murder of a senatorial candidate, Hon. Temitope Olatoye a.k.a. Sugar. Akinmoyede’s arrest brought the number of those held to two. Olatoye  was  representing Lagelu/Akinyele federal constituency in the  lower chamber of the […]

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18 die, 41 injured in Lagos building collapse

•LUCKY ONES: Some of the pupils rescued from the rubble…yesterdayl No fewer than 18 persons died yesterday when a four-storey building collapsed on Lagos Island. Forty-one others were injured. The incident occurred at No 14, Massey Street, Opposite Oja, Ita-Faaji. The building, housing Ohen Private Nursery and Primary School on its third floor, caved in […]

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