There was uproar in the Senate on Tuesday over the exclusion of South-South and South-East in the list of nominees submitted for the board of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) by President Muhammadu Buhari. The senators were divided as the lawmakers from the South-East and the South-South protested the exclusion of the two Read more
Omoyele Sowore of the African Action Congress (AAC), Donald Duke of the Social Democratic Party (SDP); Tope Fasua of the Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party (ANRP) and a host of others were excluded from the list of the 2019 vice presidential and presidential debates released by the Nigerian Elections Debate Group (NEDG) and the Broadcasting Organisations Read more
The Nigeria Police Force has said having sex in one’s car is not a crime but added that it could be considered a crime if one has sex with underage person; or if the car is parked in a religious institution when the act takes place. The Police also noted that car sex is unlawful Read more
Anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has described the allegations that its operatives on Monday raided the Abuja home of Atiku Abubakar’s sons, as pure lies. The EFCC said in a series of tweets that detectives only searched the house where the son of a former Governor of Abia State, Senator Theodore Orji, Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has challenged young Africans to champion the fight against corruption, saying their involvement is critical to winning the anti-graft war in the continent. The President threw the challenge at the youth while declaring open the 2018 Africa Youth Congress Against Corruption (AYCAC) at the presidential villa, Abuja, the nation’s capital. Buahari said Read more
Dispelling the notion that he may abandon uncompleted projects of the current administration in the State, the African Democratic Congress (ADC) governorship candidate, Prince Gboyega Nasir Isiaka (GNI) has assured that his government would be committed to the continuance of all ongoing projects in the Gateway State. The ADC governorship hopeful gave the assurance Saturday Read more
According to data from the Independent and National Electoral Commission (INEC), at least 13.5 million Nigerians were discovered to have voted manually in the 2015 presidential election. The analysis of the data revealed that 75 percent of votes cast without PVC were in states won by the then candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Read more
Nigeria is home to one of the world’s largest populations of people living with HIV. And while health care workers in the country are often strapped for resources and don’t have access to the latest medications, they have made significant progress in the fight against the virus, according to Phyllis Kanki, professor of immunology and infectious diseases Read more
Senator Ovie Omo-Agege (Delta Central) said the ECOWAS Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance forbids President Muhammadu Buhari from signing the Electoral Bill. The All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmaker gave this insight in a phone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday night. Article 2 of the protocol forbids member Read more
Ogun State gubernatorial candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Prince Gboyega Nasir Isiaka (GNI) has promised to drive economic growth in Ogun State by also giving grants and operational autonomy to cooperative groups and traders in the state. He said this at Saala-Orile Yewa North Local government on Thursday during the campaign tour of Read more
